patient care
Rethinking Workflow Reduces Cost and Wasted Time, And Improves Patient Experience
New Orleans—Clinicians and administrators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital redesigned patient and work ...
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Most Hospitals Lack a Mechanical Ventilation Protocol for Patient Transport
Austin, Texas—A majority of institutions do not have a written policy for mechanical ventilation during ...
JULY 14, 2017
Trinity Health and Pacira Team Up To Fight Opioid Abuse
Trinity Health, one of the largest hospital systems in the nation, and Pacira Pharmaceuticals have announced a ...
JULY 5, 2017
Updated Surgical Site Infection Guidelines Include Patient Warming and Supplemental Oxygen
Anesthesiologists must be key participants in the process of reducing surgical site infections, including ensuring ...
MARCH 8, 2017
Trump’s Executive Orders May Affect Health Care
Of the 18 executive orders that President Donald Trump has issued since the start of his presidency, two in ...
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
New Guidelines Released to Improve Care of Adults With Sepsis and Septic Shock
New guidelines say that immediate action with antibiotics and IV fluids are required.
JANUARY 25, 2017
Interactive App Helps Reduce Preoperative Anxiety in Peds
The Story-Telling Medicine app simulates the children’s hospital environment by guiding them through the ...
JANUARY 10, 2017
Perioperative Nutrition and Immunonutrition In the Era of ERAS and PSH: A Review
Patients and physicians alike inherently accept that poor nutrition in the perioperative period is probably a bad ...
JANUARY 5, 2017
EHRs Flawed, But Can Still Boost Health Outcomes
Health systems, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance plans have several innovative options for using ...
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Twitter: A Platform for Higher-Order #Anesthesia Thinking?
Researchers have found that anesthesiology-related higher-order thinking is, indeed, possible on Twitter.
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Patients With Alzheimer’s Found Less Sensitive To Perceiving Thermal Pain
While their affective response does not differ from healthy patients, people with Alzheimer’s disease are ...
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Is It Safe to Turn Down the Volume of Hospital Alarms? New Study Chimes In: ‘Yes’
The classic belief that hospital alarms should be loud might be a mistake, a new study suggests.
DECEMBER 6, 2016
