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Masks are sufficient protection for health care workers involved in routine care of patients with H1N1, according to proposed new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preventing transmission also will depend upon vaccination of health care workers and policies that discourage employees from coming to work sick, the agency said.
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When pilots prepare to take off, they follow an audible checklist. A similar strategy, adapted to health care, helped hospitals around the country reduce central-line-associated bloodstream infections.
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More health care workers received the flu vaccine last season than ever before, but that has not eased the pressure to boost immunization rates. Health care workers who fail to get their flu vaccine increasingly face additional infection control burdens, possible termination or public rebuke.
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Kreisman explained that, like any patient presenting to the ED, psychiatry patients are covered under EMTALA. As such, they are subject to the same requirements of an appropriate medical screening, stabilizing treatment, and appropriate transfer.
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Given the fact that most emergency medicine residencies now include ultrasound in their training, and the use of ultrasound in EDs is clearly increasing, one obvious liability risk involves misreads of ultrasound examinations performed in the ED.
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One of the major issues currently facing emergency ultrasound is credentialing, according to Leonard Bunting, MD, FACEP, assistant professor of emergency ultrasound at Wayne State University and emergency ultrasound director at St. John Hospital & Medical Center, both located in Detroit, MI.
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This is the second of a two-part series on documentation and ED liability. This month, we cover liability risks when the ED physician or nurse's documentation is inconsistent with documentation by other caregivers. Last month, we reported on the legal risks of inadequate documentation and information that should not be omitted.
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The abuse of drugs and alcohol is a significant and troubling problem within the medical community.