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Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) has a significant impact on the patient and health care provider. While routine prophylaxis to prevent PONV may seem desirable, wide variations in efficacy and costs of treatment suggest that routine use is not warranted.
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The recently announced national smallpox vaccination plan will have a significant impact on your same-day surgery program, whether you work in a hospital, surgery center, or office setting.
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Evaluating your same-day surgery space as you sit or crawl around the floor doesnt sound practical or necessary, and it is definitely not dignified, but it is essential when youre designing space to be used for pediatric patients.
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Sixty percent of participants in a second study on diagnostic colonoscopy, who also had participated in the first study, saw a significant decrease in some aspect of their procedure times.
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American Health Consultants now offers the Hospital Handbook on Smallpox Vaccination, a facilitywide resource containing all the information you need about smallpox vaccination in most heath care facilities and environments.
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As hospitals prepare to vaccinate hundreds of health care workers, they face a host of opposing pressures.
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A tuberculosis standard requiring annual respirator fit-testing and skin testing is all but dead as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) removed it from the proposed-rule stage.
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Employers will need to record hearing-loss cases in a separate column on the OSHA log beginning Jan. 1, 2004, the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced.
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In an unusual direct appeal to health care facilities, the chairman of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is asking for reports of nosocomial infections that result in patient deaths or permanent loss of function.
