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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced its 100,000 Lives Campaign one year ago, with the lofty goal of enlisting 1,500 to 2,000 hospitals that would pledge to adopt six initiatives that, if implemented, would save 100,000 lives over an 18-month period by preventing avoidable medical errors.
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An apparent violation of federal organ transplantation procedures at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and the subsequent voluntary suspension of transplants at the hospital have directed new scrutiny on the process by which donor organs are distributed in the United States.
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In 1996, myringotomy with tympanostomy tube insertion was the most frequently performed procedure on children younger than the age of 15. More than 95% or 490,000 of the 512,000 myringotomies performed that year were performed in an ambulatory surgery setting.
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These words from a surgical administrator involved in a wrong-site surgery early in his career at another facility convey the devastation that providers feel when they are involved in a wrong-site surgery.
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A newly approved report on intraoperative awareness from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) says that depth-of-anesthesia monitors are not standard, but that they should be available for cases that may be high risk, such as cardiac cases.
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Hospital outpatient surgery departments (HOPDs) have been given good news: They will receive a 3.7% increase in Medicare payment rates in 2006 under a final Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS originally had proposed a 3.2% increase.
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How frustrating to miss an opportunity that rarely comes. How many times have we looked back on missed opportunities, such as the phone call never answered that offered a great opportunity. Or you declined a new job position where the company went public and your stock options would have been worth millions.
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A study of more than 16,000 Medicare patients who underwent bariatric surgery shows a higher mortality rate than reported in previous studies.
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Over the years, outpatient surgery program managers have struggled with the dilemma of whether parents should be allowed into the operating room. While some programs have prohibited the practice, other programs do allow parents in the operating room with the belief that a parents presence reduces a childs anxiety.
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A plastic surgeon offers free mammary endowments to his female staff and expects them to wear scrubs two sizes too small to show them off.
