Search Tag: Hospitals
Masimo-announces-masimo-safetynet-opentm
2020 19 Jun
Suite of Integrated Turnkey Tools Helps Businesses, Governments, and Schools Reopen and Stay Open Responsibly During COVID-19 IRVINE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced Masimo SafetyNet-Open™, designed to help businesses, governments, and schools more responsibly manage employee and student health and safety...Read more
Adaptable-approach-to-hospital-preparedness-for-acute-surge-events
2020 30 Apr
Smooth clinical operations of a facility are based on the adequate and consistent availability of staff, space, equipment, and a coordination mechanism. However, under acute surge events such as local epidemics or pandemics like the ongoing COVID-19, healthcare facilities may consider a viable preparedness plan. Staff capacity, both clinical and...Read more
University-of-pittsburgh-medical-center-spotlight-on-sepsis
2018 30 Dec
In 2015, UPMC a global multi-hospital system that has over 40 hospitals and 85,000 employees, began a new sepsis initiative to increase the speed of identification and treatment of sepsis patients. According to the CDC, sepsis is a major cause of preventable patient deaths in hospitals. It’s estimated one in three patients who die in hospitals...Read more
Noise-pollution-in-hospitals-a-growing-problem
2018 19 Nov
Noise levels in hospitals regularly exceed international recommendations, and the problem is getting worse, according to an editorial in the BMJ by a research team from King's College London and the University of the Arts London (UAL). You might also like : Music room soundproofing to reduce hospital noise Excessive noise can impact patients'...Read more
Cardiac-arrest-centres-the-fourth-link
2016 01 Aug
Treatment of cardiac arrest out of hospital has improved over the last few years. Unlike other acute conditions such as trauma few countries have implemented a regional system of cardiac arrest centres. In their review, Eldar Søreide, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway and Michael Busch, Department...Read more
How-to-implement-patient-blood-management-bundles
2016 28 Jun
Guidance on how to implement patient blood management (PBM) in a hospital is provided in an article just published in Transfusion Medicine Reviews . Corresponding author Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm (pictured), from the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany...Read more
Esa2016-death-by-resuscitation
2016 07 Jun
When anaesthesiologist Sharon Einav took her car to be repaired on the way to hospital one day, she wondered why the mechanic was just leaning on his car. It took a while to realise he was having a heart attack, she related at Euroanaesthesia 2016 in London in May. This lack of situational awareness was an example she used to show how the chain of...Read more
Study-implementation-of-icu-infection-control-practices-inconsistent
2014 30 Jan
According to a new study, the largest of its kind, U.S. hospital intensive care units (ICUs) show uneven compliance with infection prevention policies. The findings are published in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC),...Read more