Articles Tagged With: treatment
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Why We Can’t Allow Physical Exam Skills to Languish
With more highly evolved and readily available technology at our fingertips, it is sometimes tempting to let the echocardiogram sort out the abnormal heart sounds we detected, or allow the pelvic ultrasound to inform whether the uterus is enlarged, or short-cut parts of the physical exam we anticipate to be unlikely sources of pertinent information.
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ED registration practices led to EMTALA problems
Here are some practices in emergency department registration areas that Gina Greenwood, JD, an attorney at Atlanta-based Baker Donelson, has seen come up in alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act:
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Patients Need No Convincing
Relapsing and refractory Clostridium difficile infection has become a real challenge for clinicians and affected patients alike. Some patients wind up in a seemingly never-ending cycle of illness, gradual improvement, followed by a prolonged vancomycin taper, and eventual relapse.
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Ebola aftershock: HCWs suffer lingering symptoms
U.S. healthcare workers who survived Ebola after acquiring it from patients have suffered a wide variety of symptoms and maladies, with only one survivor considered symptom-free at five months after discharge, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Ceftazidime-avibactam — Formulary Considerations
Ceftazidime-avibactam is a new beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination approved for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections in combination with metronidazole, and complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis in patients with limited alternative treatment options.
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Health organization’s PI program speeds up multiple EDs
Hospital emergency department visits have increased by nearly one-third since the mid-1990s, and these high volumes have led to increased problems, such as overcrowded EDs and greater numbers of patients being diverted to other facilities or leaving without being seen, studies show.
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News Briefs
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia will get more than $547 million in grants over five years to build Medicaid long-term care programs that will help keep people at home and out of institutions.