-
Smallpox preparedness needs to take a broader focus, with a registry of health care workers and others who have been previously vaccinated, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel has advised.1
-
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is hanging tough on enforcement of safer needle devices, with a new information bulletin that clearly restates its prohibition against reuse of blood tube holders.
-
Ergonomist Laurie Wolf, MS, CPE, spent years teaching client companies how to reduce their workers compensation claims by implementing ergonomic interventions. But when her own employer, BJC Health Care in St. Louis, encountered claims of more than $4 million, she realized that she needed to turn her attention close to home.
-
In tight economic times, injury prevention is an economic necessity. Consider this: Medical costs for workers compensation claims involving lost time from work rose by 12% in 2002. Payment for lost wages rose by 7%, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
-
Wound irrigation in children: Saline solution or tap water?; Patient satisfaction in the emergency department A survey of pediatric patients and their parents; Effectiveness of prehospital trauma triage guidelines for the identification of major trauma in elderly motor vehicle crash victims
-
The scenario described in this article underscores the dramatic impact ED nurses can have on terminally ill patients in their EDs, says Kay McClain, RN, MS, CEN, nurse director for emergency services at Marlborough (MA) Hospital.
-
Always use the A, B, C, D, E, F principles when caring for patients with sickle cell pain, urges Allan Platt, PA-C, program coordinator for the Atlanta-based Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System.
-
ED patients often deal with frightening symptoms, noisy waiting rooms, and long delays. However, patients with sickle cell disease have a unique problem: Although they are in excruciating pain, they often are viewed as drug seekers.
-
When a patient is assessed at triage and no beds are available, what happens next in your ED? Instead of sending patients to the waiting room, why not start care immediately? At St. Marys Hospital in Tucson, AZ, triage nurses use protocols to immediately initiate care for female abdominal pain, minor orthopedic injuries, and upper respiratory illnesses.
-
Do stroke patients in your ED always receive a computed tomography scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, youre not following recommended time frames for stroke care a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
