Same-Day Surgery – November 1, 2004
November 1, 2004
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Awareness may be more common than you think — Can monitoring help?
Someone in the OR makes a comment about a patients tattoo. In another case, a catheter doesnt get connected, and urine ends up on the OR floor. Someone gets mad about the mess and starts yelling. Do these situations sound like a bad day in the OR? Now imagine the patient wakes up in recovery and tells you she heard what your staff said, but she was paralyzed and unable to speak. -
How you can identify and prevent awareness
Awareness is caused when general anesthesia isnt sufficient to maintain unconsciousness and to prevent recall during surgery. Common causes include large anesthetic requirements, equipment misuse or failure, and smaller doses of anesthetic drugs, according to a recently published study. -
Is your facility prepared for a disaster to hit?
Is your center prepared for a disaster that could cause you to close your doors, contact patients and staff, and later reopen safely? Information from centers that weathered the recent hurricanes in Florida can apply to any disaster. -
Take these steps to protect your building
There are several steps you can take before a storm to ensure your building and its contents are protected, says William Phillips, PhD, president of Riteway Services, a Winter Park, FL-based business that handles facilities management for ambulatory surgery centers. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager
One area of this column I really enjoy is the questions I receive from readers. Some months, I receive 80-120 e-mails. This month, I went back over the past six months and pulled up some of my favorites. -
News Briefs
2005 survey fees will be increased; Cost, revenue information available on PA centers; GAO: Hospitals not getting enough reimbursement. -
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2004 Salary Survey Results: Fight rising costs of hiring by keeping current staff
The good news for respondents to the 2004 Same-Day Surgery Salary Survey is that more than 68% of survey respondents saw their salary increase between 1% and 6% in 2004. Even better news for almost 11% of survey respondents was the 7% to 10% they reported. In 2003, only 5.44% of respondents received a 7% to 10% increase.