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Have you ever had a gut instinct that a patients injury was related to alcohol abuse, but you said nothing because you had five other patients waiting to be seen? If so, youre not alone: A new study says 27% of adult ED patients in Tennessee had unmet substance abuse needs that werent identified during their visit.
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Part I of this two-part series on bites and stings covered the diagnosis and management of mammalian bites and insect stings. Part II will examine the management of snake and reptile bites as well as bites and stings from marine animals.
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A report by the World Health Organization in Geneva presented these dire findings about avian influenza and the potential for a pandemic.
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It was 9 p.m. when housekeepers at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, WA, received a call about a spill of formalin, a fixative that is 10% formaldehyde. They wondered if there was some special precaution they should take, but when they called their manager, he told them just to clean it up.
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Gaps in the system are costing you money: the injury that isnt reported right away; the employee who doesnt keep a doctors appointment; and the supervisor who doesnt make an effort to find a position for an employee with temporary restrictions.
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If you want to raise the influenza vaccination rates of health care workers, make the vaccines free and convenient. Education helps, but a promotional campaign wont be enough.
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As avian influenza cases continue to emerge in Vietnam, the call for pandemic preparedness is gaining urgency. Between mid-December and mid-March, there have been 24 human infections of influenza A (H5N1) in Vietnam 13 of them fatal. Public health experts caution the virus could mutate and become transmissible among people the key to a pandemic.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued recommendations for infection control in health care facilities to prevent possible spread of avian influenza.
