Articles Tagged With: guidelines
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Legal Exposure if EMS Are Noncompliant with Stroke Guidelines
If clinicians miss a stroke diagnosis or delay care for that condition, plaintiff attorneys are going to scrutinize everything ED providers could have done differently. However, whatever problems there are or were all could have started well before the patient arrived at the facility. In fact, most patients receive prehospital stroke care from EMS that is noncompliant with American Stroke Association guidelines.
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Want to Retain and Support Staff? Better Communication from Leadership Helps
Hospital nurses need effective communication from leadership to help them cope with the long COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a recent study. Nurses also need to be part of leadership gatherings, local meetings, and decision-making to share their daily experiences and help find solutions to the unprecedented emergencies created during the past two years. -
Practice Guidelines for Difficult Airways
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has released updated guidelines on the management of the difficult airway.
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Surviving Sepsis 2021 Update
Some of the important changes include clearer differentiation of sepsis vs. septic shock and, for numerous recommendations, changing the strength and quality of evidence to support many.
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Well-Appearing Febrile Infants: New Guidelines for Evaluation and Management
New guidelines provide specific recommendations for the use of diagnostic testing, antimicrobial treatment, and ongoing care based on age for children between 8 and 60 days of age.
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Poor Pediatric Readiness Is Big Risk Management Worry
ED readiness is based on national guidelines for ED pediatric care. Facilities should follow these guidelines closely.
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Updated Sexually Transmitted Infection Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated their recommendations for the treatment of several sexually transmitted infections, including gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and those due to Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium.
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Sepsis Report Could Help ED Malpractice Defense
Of the many different guidelines on early sepsis care in the ED, some specific recommendations remain controversial. A recently released report addresses many of these issues. -
OSHA’s COVID-19 Reg Codifies CDC Guidelines
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19, putting regulatory teeth into recommended practices by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Ethics Tries to Keep Up with Quickly Evolving Stem Cell Research
Updated guidelines offer specific recommendations for embryo research, stem cell embryo models, organoids, chimeras, germline genome editing, and mitochondrial replacement techniques. Public support for controversial research is an overarching goal.