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Hospital employee health professionals should consider using social media and Internet communications and campaigns to electronically promote safety and health for health care workers.
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While a Dallas hospital struggled to care for the nations first Ebola case, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration quietly issued a draft of an infectious disease standard designed to protect health care workers. The proposed rule would make infection control measures mandatory and would add new requirements for hazard identification, exposure control, and documentation.
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While emphasizing that Ebola does not spread by the airborne route, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising in new infection control guidelines that health care workers wear N95 respirators or powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) for treating patients stricken with the deadly virus.
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You know how sometime you just have a great day? It seems like they dont come that often anymore, and the great is not as great, but still, it happens.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized proposed quality measure OP-32 and ASC-12 Facility Seven-Day Risk-Standardized Hospital Visit Rate after Outpatient Colonoscopy, despite objections from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) and others.
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The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has launched the Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) program to educate surgeons and staff about the safe use of surgical energy-based devices in the OR, endoscopy suite, and other areas.
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More than two-thirds of children from low-income Latino families dont receive adequate pain control when they go home after surgery, according to a study presented at the Anesthesiology 2014 annual meeting.
