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Hospices have had to deal with the periodic nursing shortages for decades, but California arguably has one of the most challenging problems ...
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The hospital discharge planner calls your admission department about a patient for whom the physician ordered home care. Sounds like it is just business as usual, doesn't it?
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In 2001, the PROWESS trial of 1690 patients with severe sepsis1 demonstrated that a 96-hour infusion of activated protein C, or drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DrotAA, Xigris®) at 24 g/kg/h decreased mortality at 28 days from 30.8% to 24.4% (P = 0.005).
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Standard teaching advocates placing a chest tube on water seal in patients with a prior hemothorax or pneumothorax and obtaining a chest radiograph (CXR) the following morning.
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Uncontrolled hemorrhage remains an important cause of death in the ICU. Patients with severe traumatic injuries, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurisms are but a few examples of those who develop coagulopathy and hemorrhage that is not amenable to surgical control and may not respond to traditional approaches to blood product transfusion.
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While addressing the new accreditation standard for overcrowding (LD.3.11), one hospital has managed to decrease its treatment times, drop its walkout rate, improve its patient satisfaction scores, and improve its revenue capture, despite increasing patient volumes.
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Amid worldwide alarm about the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in bird populations, an advisory panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a reassuring message: You don't need to stockpile N95 filtering facepiece respirators.
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This year's fall flu vaccine campaign has a new twist at some hospitals -- health care workers signing declination statements if they don't want the vaccine.
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Hospitals will likely avoid a shortage of flu vaccine this year, even if the shipments arrive in a staged fashion, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.
