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CLEVELAND Every year the Cleveland (OH) Clinic releases the Top 10 list of medical innovations for the coming year.
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With outpatient surgery becoming increasingly complex, in terms of technology and patients, there is a growing trend toward requiring nurses to have their bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) degree.
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Like many outpatient surgery facilities, you face drug shortages. You might have felt relief that youve been able to rely on compounding pharmacies to obtain the drugs you need in the single-use dosage you need until you learned about a nationwide meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid medications originating at a Massachusetts compounding facility.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rule for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payments in 2013.
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Ninety percent of informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, according to an analysis of 481 malpractice claims and patient complaints from Australia involving allegations of deficiencies in the process of obtaining informed consent.
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With the elections over, the majority of the country has spoken. Like it or not, healthcare is going to irrevocably change in the United States. There are challenges to say the least, but there are also lots of opportunities for the U.S. healthcare industry as we start down this path.
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Procedural sedation is an important skill for emergency physicians to possess to mitigate the patient's intense physical and emotional reactions to painful and threatening procedures.
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A new androgen receptor antagonist has been approved for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer. Enzalutamide was approved 3 months ahead of schedule due to a priority review by the FDA. The drug is comarketed by Astellas Pharma and Medivation as Xtandi.
