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Tag: respiratory compromise
By J. Paul Curry, MD (anesthesiologist)
This is the concluding article in my series on respiratory dysfunction in post-surgical patients. Here are highlights from the preceding articles:
Continue reading “The Safest Way to Monitor Post-Surgical Patients”
Three technologies that nurses want will be presented at the ACI Medical Liability conference (October 26-27, 2015).
Preliminary survey results will be presented at the conference. These results are findings of a survey recently conducted by the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS). Survey respondents consisted of 73 nurses who are members of the American Hospital Association (AHA). The AHA leads, represents and serves hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to the community and committed to health improvement.
There have been many studies showing the cost savings of real-time patient monitoring:
Continue reading “What are the Financial Rewards for Real-Time Patient Monitoring?”
For this week’s must reads, we have two questions that we hope that you have thoughts and comments about.
1. Respiratory Compromise Prevention Exists. So Why Aren’t Hospitals Using It?
Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (July 10, 2015)”
by Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
According to the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, many different types of procedures may require a patient who is a child to stay still or may cause them discomfort if no anesthesia is used. For example, procedures such as MRI scans require the child to be completely still to ensure adequate quality of the scans. This is an addition to anesthesia used in surgery and common procedures, such as for fracture reduction, laceration repair, and incision and drainage of an abscess.
However, despite the widespread use of anesthesia in children, Gaspard Montandon, PhD (Parker B. Francis Fellow, Department of Physiology and Medicine, University of Toronto) says: Continue reading “Children at Heightened Risk of Respiratory Compromise”
by Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
According to the American Dental Association, each year about five million people have ten million wisdom teeth extracted in the United States. Usually administered under a local anesthetic and sometimes under a general anesthetic, teeth extraction is generally considered routine and simple. Continue reading “Wisdom Teeth Extraction and Patient Death: 17 Year-Old Sydney Galleger”
Patients Should be Monitored for Respiratory Compromise 24×7 – this is the conclusion reached by a study by David Westfall Bates, MD (chief quality officer and chief of general internal medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor, Harvard Medical School). Continue reading “Patients on Opioids Should be Monitored for Respiratory Compromise 24×7”
Patient Safety Monitor Journal reported in its May 2015 issue about the recent respiratory compromise roundtable discussion. At this meeting hosted by the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC), healthcare leaders discussed guidelines for identifying and preventing respiratory compromise.
Continue reading “Identifying and Preventing Respiratory Compromise”
In a special roundtable discussion hosted February 26-27, 2015 by the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC), healthcare leaders reviewed and discussed how to reduce the risk of respiratory compromise. Continue reading “Reducing Respiratory Compromise and Depression”