In an instant, she went from being a busy thirtysomething with two jobs and an active social life to a shocked young woman who was told she had anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to live. Thankfully, Alexis found a skilled surgical team at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston that did...
I can’t leave my work at work. Because, unlike other jobs, my “work” isn’t a stack of paperwork or a list of tasks to be completed. My “work” is taking care of patients. My “work” involves real human lives, who, even if I leave the hospital, are still sick and...
O2. When breathing room air, this ‘substitution’ process can be detected quite early using continuous pulse oximetry and either a safety net alarm threshold value (ATV) set at 90%, or astute observations made of downward SPO2 trends preceding any alarm breach and their likely association with...
A telepalliative care intervention for patients with advanced cancer reported no effect on survival (HR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.64-1.07),20 whereas a trial of integrated palliative and respiratory care for dyspnea, which included survival as a safety outcome, reported greater survival at 6 months (94...
Stephanie took her time with me for permanent eye makeup. She knows what sheâs doing and patient comfort and safety are top priority. review for Stephanie Morlock, C.P.C.P. by Susan Hanson on 04/11/2018 Very professional office from the receptionist to the top Dr.! review ...
In our March 26, 2019 Patient Safety Tip of the Week “Patient Misidentification” we noted a near-miss when two patients had the same name and same date of birth and noted the fact that, in one hospital district in Texas, 2488 patients were named Maria Garcia, and 231 of these (9.3%...
As Seth Klarman tells us in Margin of Safety - “Most investors strive fruitlessly for certainty and precision, avoiding situations in which information is difficult to obtain. Yet high uncertainty is frequently accompanied by low prices. By the time the uncertainty is resolved, prices are likely...
For many years, when we would do our patient safety orientation to our incoming residents, we had one slide that said “Never Assume – It will make an “Ass” out of “U” and “Me”. We came across a recent sad story of how an assumption probably led to a premature death of a ...
safetyD. defense 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: Mary is taking good care of the old patient in the hospital whereshe___for ten years. A. had worked B.works C. is working D.has been working 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: 27.After staying in hospital for long, the patient was advised...
Yes, there will be a compassionate safety net too, funded by rerouting what is currently misused to actual care of those who need it most. Patients and families will control this safety net backstop, and there should be a role for true charity. This rebuild starts with a foundation built...