Lastly, caregivers are often overlooked as a group that heavily benefits from adjustable hospital beds. The possibility of adjusting the bed’s height aids in providing care for patients, reducing the likelihood
In the last 10years, the rate of femur fractures treated within 48h from trauma has been introduced as a performance index for hospital management in Italy. Literature showed a significant indirect correlation between early treatment and mortality/comorbidity. The aims of early treatment are pain ...
(voluntary stopping eating and drinking) is an extreme measure of requestingdeath. When I heard about it, I imagined that one of my loved ones were starving to death in a hospital bed and I had no control of stopping it. This thought is the other reason for my sadness because my family...
Scarcity also could be very high, as after COVID-19 pandemic when hundreds of patient coming to hospital and couldn’t be treated owing to the shortage of life-saving ventilators or absence of a bed in the Intensive Care Units (ICU). Consequently, if medical resources are sufficient, there...
I jumped in the car and raced back to the hospital. The next day, after learning that his name was Asif, I went to see him. Asif's parents were sitting around his bed. The doctor introduced me as "the person who saved your son's life". “Son, you are an angel, " his mother ...
Choosing a UV-C–emitting system for your facility: The Vancouver example The infection prevention and infectious disease team at Vancouver General Hospital, a 728-bed tertiary care hospital, went through this evaluation and selection process beginning in 2013. Their experience provides a great example...
One ring out holds the immediate families of the victims and the survivors – sisters, brothers and parents – all in a state of shock, the first step in a long process of grief. The next ring holds the hospital doctors, nurses and staff, scurrying to treat broken skin and broken hearts...
As a researcher I had ‘insider’ status with the selected cohort for this study as I had planned a HBAC that resulted in a hospital VBAC. I am also a privately practising homebirth midwife who supports women who plan to have a HBAC. This information was shared with participants and all...
— Implement using the same protocol throughout the hospital— Cycle time decrease of 101 minutes from care complete.until patient departure from the ED — Testing assigned to complete transport in 10.4 minutes Focusing on Bed Management Addressing bed management, the team built a procedure and expe...
While the culture on maternity wards is changing, the hospital bed is still often front and centre, sending a powerful message to women that this is where they are supposed to be, even though labouring in an upright position — standing or crouching — often means shorter labours and fewer ...