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Simple remedies can help keep patients safe by decreasing contamination in operating and recovery rooms.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has released a list of specific tests or procedures that are commonly ordered but not always necessary in anesthesiology.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a 1.4% inflation update factor for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2014 and a 2.5% inflation update factor for hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs).
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Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation creates some legal risks that didn't exist with paper charting. Information that doesn't accurately represent patient encounters is more easily added to the medical record.
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A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline that helps physicians identify children most likely to benefit from tympanostomy tubes, provide the best care before and after surgery, and improve counseling and education for parents was published in a supplement to the July edition of the journal Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.
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Clinicians should take care in online communications including the electronic posting of information and the exchange of information via computers and phones.
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When doctors, nurses, and other operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heartbeat, or other crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75% less likely to miss a critical clinical step.
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As of Jan. 1, 2014, hospitals and critical access hospitals will be expected to begin phase one of a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on clinical alarm safety (NPSG.06.01.01).
