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While the two new requirements involving hand-offs and medication labeling are the most obvious changes in the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals just released by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, there are other, more subtle changes that also are critically important for ED managers to know about.
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Less than two years ago, the ED at Carondelet Health Networks St. Marys Hospital in Tucson, AZ, was an 8,000-square-foot facility designed to handle 25,000 patients a year, but treating about 50,000. There was no storage space, one utility room, and pumps and carts were sitting in the hallways.
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There are a number of recommendations as to the best available approach to the care of patients with pneumonia. This investigation
is part of a larger study looking at the effect of a pneumonia pathway on patient outcomes.
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How would you interpret the 12-lead electrocardiogram shown in the Figure? What is distinctly unusual about this tracing? What would you ask the technician who recorded this tracing?
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The purpose of this prospective study was to assess whether a strategy of D-dimer testing and multidetector-row computed tomography —without the use of lower-limb ultrasonography —would safely rule out pulmonary embolism in emergency department patients suspected to have PE.
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The purpose of this study was to perform a comprehensive meta-analysis of all randomized trials with abciximab as adjunctive treatment of STEMI, including both fibrinolytic and mechanical reperfusion
strategies.
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Less lethal weapons are becoming increasingly popular amongst law enforcement agencies and the military to apprehend and subdue violent and dangerous persons in the field.
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The authors discuss radiographic imaging, specific management of different types of commonly seen injuries, and appropriate consultation and disposition of patients who have sustained maxillofacial trauma.
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ED nurses will face even greater responsibility for compliance under the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals just unveiled by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Its 3 a.m., and a well-dressed man and woman approach the triage nurse with official-looking clipboards in hand. They claim to be surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and they demand to be shown your medication storage areas.
