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The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course for doctors was introduced in Nebraska in 1978 and given nationally for the first time in 1980 by the American College of Surgeons. The goal of ATLS is to serve as a safe and reliable method for managing patients with traumatic injury and provide a "common baseline for the continued innovation and challenge of existing paradigms in trauma care."
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Remember the principle of homeostasis from first-year physiology the idea that the human body has self-regulating processes to maintain a desirable internal state? What were we taught to do when disease disrupted the self-regulating processes, and physiologic parameters were abnormal? Use medical treatments to restore them to normal values. Well, now we know that this may not be the best way to enhance survival.
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The complex chart used to identify hypertension in children might be one reason why nearly 75% of cases of hypertension in children and adolescents go undiagnosed, according to David C. Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, chief medical informatics officer at The MetroHealth System in Cleveland.
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Have you ever disagreed with a physician about the exact words that were used with a verbal order he or she gave?
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An ED patient with an intravenous line with heparin medication being administered by pump was brought for an X-ray, but not by an ED nurse. The unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) transporting the patient inadvertently opened the pump to remove the patient's gown.
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Is your patient better off in the ED waiting room, or in the hallway?
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More and more, emergency nurses are being put in a dangerous position when caring for inpatients, says Deborah M. Dixon, RN, MSN, APN, ED educator at Summa Health System in Akron, OH.
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An emergency nurse was named in a malpractice lawsuit, accused of failing to protect a patient by allowing her fall out of a geriatric chair.
