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At an Oklahoma hospital, two children died within a few days of each other after having routine outpatient surgical procedures. One child died from toxic effects of morphine with a probable primary myopathy as a contributing cause, and the other child died from probable codeine and morphine toxicity, along with acute and chronic bronchitis with evolving pneumonia, according to the autopsy reports.
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In light of so many providers having difficulty meeting the standard of care for medication administration, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is taking action.
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In this second part of a two-part series on new technology, we discuss how to handle credentialing in this story and how to respond to errors.
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I have had several individuals contact me regarding a past article in which I mentioned that the service that administrators find the most difficult to work with is anesthesia. Since I wrote that article, I have tried to understand from where the problems arise. After further conversations with the original group and others, especially anesthesia personnel, it appears that many of the problems same-day surgery programs are having result from poor communication.
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Major advances in reducing sharps injuries have not yet pervaded the OR, where one out of four sharps injuries takes place, but there are some simple steps that same-day surgery managers can take to promote safety, sharps safety experts say.
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Florida surgeons cannot perform liposuction and abdominoplasty procedures on the same patient within 14 days of each other as a result of a 90-day moratorium imposed by the Florida Board of Medicine on Feb. 11, 2004.
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Relying on careful monitoring to reduce the risk of toxicity, Ritchie and colleagues carried out a 36-week phase II test of the efficacy of clioquinol in reducing plasma beta-amyloid levels and slowing cognitive decline in patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's disease.
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In this elegant study, Seif and colleagues asked a simple question: does DBS alter urodynamic parameters in patients with Parkinson's disease?
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Benbadis and associates reviewed the medication history of patients with EEG-confirmed idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
