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Choosing a respirator is partly a matter of numbers. Each one has a rating for its filtration and seal, which reveals how much of the contaminated ambient air would still reach the lungs.
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Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is reaching alarming levels around the country, but at the VA Medical Center in Pittsburgh, MRSA rates have dropped by 60% in the past five years. The key: Health care workers are team players in a comprehensive approach to halting MRSA.
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As many as 62 new drugs may be added to the list of potential workplace hazards by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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The Joint Commission has proposed standards revisions that could weaken infection control programs "significantly at a time when health care associated infections (HAIs) are receiving increasing attention by legislators, payers, and consumers," ...
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While the media may be treating the recent death of Elizabeth Rodriguez in an ED waiting room in Los Angeles as an isolated incident, a new survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) would indicate that is far from the case.
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In a memo of clarification that should have ED managers breathing a sigh of relief, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has informed state survey agency directors that there is no prohibition under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) against ED physicians using telecommunications in consultation with specialists who are not present in their hospital or critical access hospital (CAH).
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The investigations over "homeless dumping" spread to the California legislative arena in 2006 with a bill that prohibits hospitals from transporting a homeless patient across county lines in the absence of consent from a receiving shelter.
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Nurses and physicians are at high risk for communication lapses during change of shift, says Francis L. Counselman, MD, chairman and program director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA.
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A growing number of EDs are allowing family members to be present during resuscitation, as a result of multiple research articles that consistently report that families want to be present and generally have a positive experience.
