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Protocol for testing and revising the contingency plan. The most important aspect in a surgical unit, besides data backup and a disaster recovery plan, is an emergency mode operations plan. Each single surgical unit must have, as a matter of course, a backup of its HIS functions just as it...
Overall, 154 (94%) hospitals and EDs reported reliable internet or cellular service connectivity for video streaming in clinical areas, and 142 (87%) had a contingency plan for loss of telecommunication services. Of the 154 hospitals and EDs with reliable connectivity, 124 (81%) could maintain...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global healthcare systems faced unprecedented challenges, with a lack of resources and suboptimal patient care emerging as primary concerns. Methods Our research, using a comprehensive 24-item electronic questionnaire, “Reflections on the Provision of Healthcare during the...
In addi- tion, parents suggested a step-by-step care plan and a practical discharge checklist for discharge. Creating a contingency plan to be used in an emergency at home, gave them the confidence they needed to take their child v an de Riet et al. Orphanet Journal of Rare ...
although it wasn’t always clear whether agreement had been reached in the discussion before there was pressure to move on. The team grappled with basic goal conflicts in the hospital system that they did not have the power to change. For example, a common focus of discussions was the diffi...
non-monitored spaces into the higher acuity settings needed to safely treat patients in areas that aren’t typically equipped to provide such a level of care—for example, transforming a general floor into an ICU. In a crisis situation, such as that being experienced by many states during...
Patients may, for example, be transferred to ICU on more than one occasion during their stay, which is important to factor in when ICU capacity is particularly limited. Changes in hospital demand may have also affected our estimates. At the beginning of the outbreak and in certain settings, ...
Given the need for extensive personal protective equipment (PPE), including face masks or shields during in-person therapy, video interactions are particularly important for the safe delivery of therapies that require the person served to see the therapist’s face, for example, some speech therapy ...
A contingency plan or team pre-brief should be established for any changes in the patient’s status (ie, mental status, severe headache, seizure, change in BP, and observed bleeding). The use of ambulance-based thrombolytics is derived mostly from the stroke literature, the PHANTOM-S study ...