Promoting patient safety and improving the quality of patient care
Tag: blood clot
By Lynn Razzano, RN, MSN, ONCC
In a recent article “Safety: 4 Ways to Stop DVT in Its Tracks”, Cheryl Marsh provides four very useful steps to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT). As she writes, this is patient safety issue that needs attention: Continue reading “Four simple safety steps pave the OB DVT Prevention Road”
By Lynn Razzano RN, MSN, ONCC
(This article was first published in Ob/Gyn.net.)
Every physician knows that venous thromboembolism (VTE) kills. Often, there are symptoms, such as pain and swelling in the leg or a severe headache. If a patient communicates these symptoms to you, there is a good chance that if a VTE is responsible it can be identified and managed. But sometimes, VTE is sudden and has catastrophic results, as it did with Amee VanTassell, pictured left with her father. She died from a blood clot 4 days after delivering her daughter via cesarean section at the age of 36. Continue reading “Put the “M” Back in Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Implementing VTE Prevention Guidelines”
By Lynn Razzano, RN, MSN, ONCC (Clinical Nurse Consultant)
[This article first appeared in Healthcare News (Issue 1, 2014)]
We must be compelled to act.
Three pregnant mothers – one dead and two who could have been. Continue reading “One Death, Two Near Misses: Required Action Needed to Prevent Blood Clots in Pregnant Mothers”
by Sean Power
February 4, 2014
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) held on January 22, 2014 a special webinar for the Perinatal Improvement Community on safety recommendations for maternal patients. You can download the webinar recording and slides here.
The webinar featured Peter Cherouny, MD, Emeritus Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Vermont, Chair and Lead Faculty of the IHI Perinatal Improvement Community and Michael Wong, JD, Executive Director of the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety (PPAHS).
Maternal death rate in the USA has more than doubled in the last 25 years and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that pregnancy-related mortality is rising in the United States. Continue reading ““No patients are low risk” when it comes to cesarean delivery and venous thromboembolism, says perinatal expert Dr. Peter Cherouny”
The Risk Management Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal for The Association for Healthcare Risk Management of New York, Inc. (the NY chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management), recently published in its Fall 2013 edition an article by Lynn Razzano, RN (clinical nurse consultant, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) and Michael Wong, JD (executive director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety).
This article discusses the OB VTE Safety Recommendations recently released by the Alliance together with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Perinatal Association (for a copy of the press release, please click here).
Razzano and Wong explain the importance of the OB VTE Safety Recommendations: Continue reading “Managing Risk and Reducing Readmissions: New Safety Recommendations Prevent Venous Thromboembolism in Maternal Patients”
By Briggs Adams
(This article first posted on TheDoctorWeighsIn.)
More than six weeks after giving birth, Amber Rabalais Scott held her daughter Adeline Elizabeth in her arms for the first time – a milestone that the family and many friends of the 30-year-old Slidell, La., woman won’t ever forget. Continue reading “Amber Scott’s story spotlights the risk of blood clots for new and expectant mothers”
By Michael Wong, JD
(This article first published in Becker’s Clinical Quality & Infection Control.)
According to the CDC[1], the maternal death rate in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1987. Continue reading “Maternal Morbidity on the Rise and Likely to Climb Even Higher”