Articles Tagged With: prevention
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Drospirenone and Estetrol Tablets (Nextstellis)
Nextstellis can be prescribed to women of reproductive potential to prevent pregnancy.
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AORN Issues Revised, Evidence-Based Perioperative Pressure Injury Guide
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses has released a revised perioperative pressure injury toolkit, which was built on international guidance from 2019.
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Best Practices for Handling Adverse Events
Mistakes and near-miss errors occur in every healthcare setting. With proper planning, surgery professionals can minimize adverse events and react appropriately if they do occur to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control.
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Surgical Errors, Retained Sponges Remain Major Problems
Surgical errors can harm patients, and take an emotional toll on staff. It is important for surgery centers to create policies and procedures and train on how to handle and prevent adverse events.
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Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams in the Emergency Setting
Emergency clinicians are adept at diagnosing and treating pulmonary embolisms. In cases deemed intermediate- or high-risk, determining which treatment is best is not always clear. Innovators at Massachusetts General Hospital developed the first pulmonary embolism response team, which has since been adopted widely.
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Lawmakers Approve Workplace Violence Prevention Measure
Legislation would require extra measures to maintain safe healthcare environments.
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Herpes Zoster Vaccine: Effective but Underused
The adjuvanted recombinant herpes zoster vaccine is highly effective in practice, but it is vastly underused.
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Developers Unveil Universal Screening Tool for Suicide Risk
Suicide remains the second-leading cause of death among adolescents, but many at risk remain unidentified. One solution is universal screening in the ED, a place nearly 20% of all U.S. adolescents visit annually. Investigators developed the Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth tool, which enables teens to undergo the screening on a tablet computer, with results immediately available.
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Compression Garments Effective in Reducing Cellulitis
Researchers examined the benefit of compression garments in patients with lower extremity edema at risk for cellulitis. Eligible patients reported significant edema for more than three months in one or both legs, and a history of two or more episodes of cellulitis in the same leg within the previous two years.
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Surgery Pros Prepare for Life After COVID-19
Some best practices included in COVID-19 pandemic safety guidance issued by federal and professional organizations are likely to continue even after the worst of the emergency is over.