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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.
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The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has endorsed the use of blunt suture needles and is poised to begin an educational push to reduce one of the most persistent remaining causes of sharps injuries.
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Violations of the bloodborne pathogen standard are occurring regularly in operating rooms and procedure rooms across the country. The culprit: pre-packaged kits and trays.
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Janine Jagger was working on integrating airbags in cars when her colleagues at the University of Virginia told her about another safety problem: Health care workers stuck with needles were at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, as well as other bloodborne diseases.
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The CDC's interim guidance regarding personnel protection equipment (PPE) for respiratory infections is confusing because the wrong experts are making selection decisions based on the wrong criteria.
