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AORN Offers Safe Patient Handling Guidance
Perioperative nurses often sustain musculoskeletal injuries from lifting and moving patients. This is a problem that poses even more risks in a society with an obesity epidemic.
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Risk Management Techniques Can Help With Monitoring
Risk management should encompass a broad process of reporting adverse events and incidents, monitoring compliance and safety, and initiating quality improvement projects and activities.
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Surgery Centers Could Play Lead Role in Healthcare Transparency
Healthcare transparency is gaining public support, but still faces multiple obstacles to becoming a broad reality across the industry. Some surgery centers are leading the way in making costs and outcomes transparent through their websites.
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Feds Mandate Hospitals Develop and Maintain Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
The move is seen as a big step against multidrug-resistant organisms and the misuse of antibiotics.
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Busy Community Hospital Develops Process to Speed ED Throughput
Some patients are coming to the ED from nearby urgent care centers and physician offices where their care has already begun. ED administrators saw in this group a new opportunity to reduce wait times while also promoting better care integration between different healthcare settings.
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Steep Increases in STDs Jeopardize Efforts to End HIV Epidemic
Experts call for increased funding for STD prevention and surveillance efforts across the country.
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EDs Critical to Curbing HIV Epidemic, But More Involvement Needed
Investigators say there is a need for EDs to not just perform routine testing for HIV, but also take more ownership of the counseling and treatment aspects of care.
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CDC Offers Guidance on How to Recognize, Manage Vaping-Associated Lung Injury
The guidance states that patients suspected of presenting with e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury should undergo a chest radiograph. Hospital admission is recommended for patients with low blood oxygen levels or who are in respiratory distress.
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The Importance of Taking Blood Cultures Prior to Antibiotic Delivery in Sepsis Patients
While taking blood cultures should not significantly delay needed treatment, investigators noted their data prove that cultures taken post-treatment lose nearly half the clinical information needed to make subsequent treatment decisions.
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Is This Acute?
There is a stack of ECGs in need of interpretation. The tracing in the figure is among those tracings. No clinical information is available. How would one interpret this ECG? Are the changes acute?