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State boards don’t discipline many physicians for sexual misconduct, consumer rights group says
State medical boards are failing to protect the public from many doctors already known to have committed sexual misconduct, according to a recent report from Public Citizen, a non-profit, consumer rights advocacy group and think tank based in Washington, DC.
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Hospitals sued — claims of sexual abuse, harassment
Two hospitals are facing lawsuits, as are several physicians and staff, in two cases in which healthcare professionals are accused of sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
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Sexual Abuse and Harassment are Challenging Liability Areas to Address
In light of recent high profile cases of sexual assault and harassment in healthcare facilities, risk managers should assess whether their policies and procedures are strong enough to produce an adequate response when staff members or patients report these incidents, one experienced risk manager suggests.
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Risk Management Falls Under Criticism After a Patient is Forcibly Removed
Risk management at a Florida hospital was cited as insufficient in the state investigation following a high publicized incident in which a patient was forcibly removed, and the state rejected the hospital’s corrective action plan.
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Improve On-Call ED Coverage by Making it Easier on Specialists
You come to work Monday morning and hear this tale from your emergency department: A patient presented in the ED over the weekend with compartment syndrome and needed a fasciotomy, but no specialist was available. None of the available physicians had done one since medical school, so the physician who drew the short straw studied the procedure on YouTube before proceeding.
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The Current Outlook for Cardiac Tamponade
In the modern era, cardiac tamponade is most commonly caused by malignancies with poor prognosis. As compared to older literature, iatrogenic causes have increased, most resulting from complications of percutaneous coronary intervention.
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Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation for Recurrent Arrhythmia and Coronary Artery Disease
Acute and long-term success rates with ventricular tachycardia ablation in patients with coronary artery disease are relatively high with an acceptably low complication rate.
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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Survival in Systolic Heart Failure
A large study of patients with chronic systolic heart failure undergoing cardiopulmonary exercise testing found peak oxygen uptake, exercise duration, and percent predicted peak oxygen uptake were the strongest predictors of survival.
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Prognostic Value of Coronary Calcium on Standard Chest CT Scans
Coronary calcium scan on standard CT scans performed for other indications is of equivalent prognostic value to that seen on ECG-gated coronary studies and should be included in radiology test reports.
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TAVR Still a Viable Option for Many Left Main Disease Patients
Performing planned left main percutaneous intervention before or during transcatheter aortic valve replacement does not confer increased risk of short- or intermediate-term adverse outcomes.