Articles Tagged With: complications
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Preoperative Assessments Can Be Weak Point, Increase Liability Risks
Preoperative assessments are critical to patient safety and reducing liability risks. Some assessments are inadequate and fail to identify risks that could be avoided.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Complications of Typhoid Fever; Do I Smell a Rat? Or Is the Rat Smelling Me? Cloth Masks — Just for Looks?
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Restricting Access to Abortion Increases Complications
Restrictive abortion laws increase the chance that a woman will self-manage her abortion, a practice associated with an increased risk of complications.
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Many Serious Cardiac Complications of Pregnancy Are Preventable
Investigators determined about half of serious cardiac complications of pregnancy are preventable.
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Critical Care in the Obese Patient
This article will highlight some important practical aspects of care that arise in the management of critically ill obese patients, along with the unique physiology resulting from obesity.
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Maternal and Infant Health Need Science-Based Case Management Plan
Evidence-based recommendations to prevent preterm births include assessing patients’ risk levels and considering a variety of potential complications and health problems.
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Similar Safety Profiles for HOPDs, ASCs Post-Hip Surgery
A group of investigators have observed postsurgery complications for hip arthroscopy are similar for patients treated in both hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers. Further, there are low complication rates in both settings.
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CDC: Flu Vaccination Can Keep You out of the Hospital, Morgue
Given the nation’s antivaccine movement and the annual safety myths and efficacy quibbles about the seasonal influenza vaccine, public health officials are keeping it simple this year: A flu shot can keep you out of the hospital and the morgue.
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The Emergency Department Management of Precipitous Delivery and Neonatal Resuscitation
Emergency department providers should be familiar with the correct procedures to manage pregnancies, births, and subsequent neonatal resuscitations when they occur unexpectedly in the ED.
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Predicting Recurrence After Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery
SYNOPSIS: Prediction models can provide helpful information regarding the risk of recurrence after prolapse surgery.