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Anxiety often is poorly managed in patients recovering from a heart attack, new research reports.1
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Physicians commonly use a wide array of medications to treat bronchiolitis, a common lower-respiratory tract disease among infants and toddlers, but there is no compelling evidence to support these treatments, according to a new evidence report sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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This article outlines symptoms of suspected and probable cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Here is the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions guidance for the management of exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome in health care settings.
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With guidelines that are much weaker than the rule it once proposed, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommended that manual lifting of [nursing home] residents be minimized in all cases and eliminated when feasible.
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How can you select the equipment that will be right for your hospital? Feedback from employees and from other facilities that have used the equipment will provide valuable information. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration also suggests some questions to ask the vendor.
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More hospitals than ever have received warning letters from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because they have lost-time injury and illness rates that are twice the national average for all industry.
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Two deaths and six other heart-related problems among civilian smallpox vaccinees added to uncertainty as hospitals added more restrictions to the already lackluster vaccination program. One military vaccinee also died of cardiac arrest five days after vaccination.
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Faced with the alarming worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which has affected more than 1,500 people in 13 countries, public health authorities alerted hospitals to safeguard health care workers, visitors, and other contacts. As of March 15, more than 90% of the cases had occurred in health care workers caring for SARS patients.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued the following guidance for infection control measures when caring for a patient with a suspected case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
