Same-day surgery staff members point with pride to their turnover times, numbers of procedures handled during a day, and outstanding clinical outcomes, but patients and their family members notice things such as waiting room reading material, noisy children, and their own hunger.
The Northern Michigan Operating Room Education Network will offer a free webcast on wrong-site or wrong-body part surgery in june.
If you dont assess patients preoperatively for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), you run the risk of spreading the potentially fatal disease in your facility, infectious disease experts warn.
Why am I waiting so long? Its one comment that staff members always can expect to hear from patients and family members, say experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
Gynecare Worldwide, a division of Ethicon of Somerville, NJ, has voluntarily withdrawn Gynecare Intergel Adhesion Prevention Solution from the market and is urging customers to immediately stop using this product.
