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Many ED nurses are apparently not following guidelines for pulmonary function testing and asthma medications, according to a recent study.
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Older ED stroke patients are at substantially higher risk for adverse clinical outcomes, including in-hospital mortality, warns Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, director of the Ahmanson University of California-Los Angeles Cardiomyopathy Center.
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While Sabrina Jung, RN, was transporting an uncontrolled seizure patient from the ED at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis, MO, for a CT scan, the patient had another seizure.
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Geriatric patients can present a host of challenges in outpatient surgery.
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There is an interesting thing happening, seemingly nationwide. Outpatient surgery is off way off! Some centers are reporting as much as a 23% decrease over last year.
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A benchmarking report on some of the major causes of surgical malpractice cases has provided information that hospital quality managers and risk managers can use to improve performance and reduce adverse events.
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Retained items in surgery are a constant risk in the OR, and there still is no perfect solution. The best strategy is to combine more than one prevention method and tailor the effort to the particular type of surgery, experts say.
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Equipment, supplies often unavailable in life-threatening emergencySupplies that were the incorrect size. Missing items. Empty oxygen tanks. Drained batteries on equipment. Unstocked or unlocked crash carts.
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