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Closed intensive care units (ICUs) those in which an intensivist is the patients primary attending physician or ICUs that require mandatory critical care consultation with an intensivist experience lower mortality rates and shorter lengths of stay (LOS), according to a study published in the Nov. 6, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Physician staffing patterns and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients.
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Health care leaders in Ann Arbor, MI, are returning to school so they can learn how to better care for a highly complex patient: the multisite, multispecialty academic medical center known as the U-M (University of Michigan) Health System.
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When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind; but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it to be invaluable.
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Here is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) study guide given to emergency department nurses at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park, IL.
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If your nurses arent up to date on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), you risk violations that can result in fines of up to $50,000 per violation, lawsuits for personal injury, and possible termination of the hospitals Medicare provider agreement.
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Slap (superior labrum anterior to posterior) lesions involve injuries to the superior labrum with varying degrees of avulsion of the long head of the biceps attachment. SLAP lesions can be difficult to diagnose, difficult to treat, and difficult to determine in importance.
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Open repair of rotator cuff tears has been a time-tested technique based on fundamental principles. Neer originally proposed 4 major objectives: cuff defect closure, elimination of impingement lesions of the coracoacromial arch, deltoid muscle preservation, and early rehabilitation without disrupting the repair.
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With improved understanding of rotator cuff pathology and the availability of arthroscopic instrumentation specifically designed for soft tissue repair techniques, rotator cuff repairs have evolved from a classic open approach to a mini-open (or deltoid-sparing) approach, and finally to an all-arthroscopic technique.
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he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse ReactionsGuidance for Clinicians in the Jan. 24th edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The guidance is a thorough review of the smallpox vaccine with a well-illustrated compendium of complications.
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