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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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Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common and severe nosocomial infection which is being seen with alarming frequency in hospitalized patients.
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For this study of bacterial contamination of the cell phones of health care workers in a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia, the investigators swabbed the screen, dialing pad, and sides of the phones and used standard culture techniques.
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In this issue: Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
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