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Perinatal Safety Requires Teamwork, Best Practices
Team training of obstetrical unit physicians, along with improved use of standardized best practices, can significantly reduce the risk of perinatal harm, a researcher suggests.
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Two Newborns Misidentified Every Day in PA
An average of nearly two newborn misidentification events occur daily in Pennsylvania, according to estimates from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.
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Paper: Multiple Cases of Newborn Mix-up Reported
An investigation by The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, uncovered at least 26 cases in which babies were wrongly identified have occurred in New South Wales public maternity wards in three years.
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Patient ID a Top Source of Error; Newborns High Risk
Wrong-patient errors linked to identification are significant and may correlate with increasing patient volume and frequent handoffs among providers, plus increased data sharing, research indicates.
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Recently Diagnosed Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients Are at Risk for Major Arrhythmic Events
Patients with recently diagnosed idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy are at marked risk of major arrhythmia events that are neither well-predicted by traditional methods nor protected against by defibrillator implantation more than three months after diagnosis.
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Diastolic Blood Pressure Goals
An analysis of the community-based ARIC study showed that low diastolic blood pressures were associated with higher baseline and subsequent troponin T levels and adverse cardiac events, but not stroke.
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MitraClip Experience in Functional Mitral Regurgitation
A post-regulatory approval, observational study of patients with symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation stratified by baseline left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) showed that these patients received substantial benefit at low rates of hospital mortality and other adverse events, regardless of baseline LVEF.
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Left Main Confusion: Two Randomized Trials Reach Seemingly Opposite Conclusions
The NOBLE and EXCEL trials randomized patients presenting with left main disease to treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft.
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Spironolactone Improves Exercise Capacity in Diastolic Heart Failure
In a small randomized, controlled trial of patients presenting with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, treatment with spironolactone was associated with improved exercise capacity and less exercise-induced increase in left ventricular filling pressures.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Wee Bacterium Parasitizes Other Oral Bacteria; How Safe Is Your Honey?; Benefits of TB Screening Confirmed