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Breaking with tradition is never easy, especially when it comes to such sensitive areas as the intensive care unit (ICU). But at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, a second attempt at instituting open visiting in the adult ICU is working so well that is has become official policy.
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The Breakthrough Series Collaborative model effectively employed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) on a national level has been translated successfully to the regional level in the state of Washington, achieving significant improvement in the self-care efforts of diabetes patients and clinical improvements in areas such as blood sugar and cholesterol.
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Connecting for Health, a collaborative of public and private stakeholders, will be launching a new phase of its effort to promote electronic connectivity in health care. The projects steering group, comprising more than 50 leaders and decision makers in the health care industry is committed to creating an incremental road map to achieving electronic connectivity.
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The loss of heterozygosity in the tumor tissue of carriers coupled with the high frequency of patient and family history of breast and ovarian malignancies suggest that USPC might be part of the manifestation of familial breast-ovarian cancer in Ashkenazi Jews.
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Ninety-five patients with vaginal vault prolapse were randomly assigned to having either an abdominal sacral colpopexy with Prolene mesh or unilateral sacrospinous colpopexy. All patients in both groups with stress incontinence also had Burch colposuspension. The abdominal approach was associated with longer operating room time, higher cost, and longer convalescence.
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To answer the title question a team of british investigators (Banerjee S, et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2004;103:287-293) inserted an intrauterine temperature sensor in 18 laboring patients with epidural anesthesia at the time they were inserting intrauterine pressure catheters. These patients then were monitored with periodic oral thermometer sampling, continuous skin temp assessment (taped to the inner thigh) and the commonly used ear canal temperature assessments.
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Antibiotics Associated With Cancer Risk; Topiramate Effective Against Migraine; Statin Therapy For Heart Failure; FDA Actions.
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