Teaching about the systems approach to patient safety in the context of compelling cases—a patient taken for someone else's invasive cardiology procedure, or a patient who died after her arterial line was flushed with insulin instead of heparin1 ,4—will have more impact than just outlining ...
To describe the successful use of high-dose enoxaparin therapy (1.5 mg/kg subcutaneously twice daily) to attain a therapeutic anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) level in a cancer patient with heparin resistance.A proven heparin-resistant patient with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and lung cancer who require...
Although the number of subject in this study (n = 14, 8 men and 6 women) does not allow for definitive conclusions about the relationship of push stroke to shoulder injury, it does highlight the need for providing teaching interventions and equipment that maximize propulsion while minimizing ...
In thekidneyposition, the patient assumes a modified lateral position wherein the abdomen is placed over a lift in the operating table that bends the body. The patient is turned on their contralateral side with their back placed on the edge of the table. The contralateral kidney is placed ove...
What one word in the patient's chart note gives the answer to how the patient's insulin was administered? Drug Administration: Drug administration can occur via many different routes. Drugs will be administered in the method that is best for maximal a...
UK 6 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, UK 7 Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany 8 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK 9 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation...
She was also treated with continuous hydrocortisone infusion, crystalloid fluids, red blood cell transfusion, calcium gluconate, vasoactive agents, antiarrhythmics, and low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) at a therapeutic dosage along with supplemental oxygen. The fever ultimately resolved on the second...
Point prevalence of hospital-acquired infections in two teaching hospitals of Amhara region in Ethiopia Purpose: Hospital-acquired infection (HAI) is a major safety issue affecting the quality of care of hundreds of millions of patients every year, in both de... WW Yallew,A Kumie,FM Yehuala...
The nurse has reinforced instructions to the client with Raynaud's disease about self-management of the disease process. The nurse determines that the client needs further teaching if the client states which? - correct answer ✔✔"Moving to a warmer climate should help." The nurse carries o...
teaching and 25 years as a photojournalist at AMNH, Natural History Magazine. I have spent 4 decades reading the urological and other medical literature, surveying 1700 people diagnosed with IC,together with Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler and writing The National Women’s Health Network and Our Bodies ...