The VA National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable brochure designed to educate patients on what will happen before their surgery and how caregivers will ensure safe and correct surgery.
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Health Inventures has announced it will take over the management role for the OhioHealth Sleep Services network, effective in March, according to a Health Inventures news release.
Medline is set to launch its new PerforMAX pOweR scrub at the upcoming Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses' 59th Annual Congress in New Orleans taking place in March. The scrub, which Medline says is the industry's first-ever line of long-sleeved…
Alarm fatigue — when clinicians fail to respond to alarms due to overexposure — is a serious condition that can have fatal consequences for patients. In fact, the ECRI Institute named alarms the most hazardous health technology for 2012. In…
Dorian "Frank" Winconek, former CEO of a Muncie, Ind., surgery center, has been sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the center, according to a Canadian Business report.
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Information & Quality Healthcare, a not-for-profit corporation serving as the federally designated quality improvement organization for Mississippi, provides a free, downloadable poster developed by CDC and HHS that reminds healthcare workers to practice hand hygiene after removing gloves.
RF Surgical Systems, a developer of solutions for the detection and prevention of retained surgical sponges, has announced Duke University Medical Center in North Caorlina has implemented the company's RF Assure Detection System for use in its operating rooms, according…
A CLABSI bundle, which includes hand hygiene, site preparation, selecting the best site for inserting the line and removing the line as soon as the patient no longer needs it, helped Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., dramatically reduce CLABSI…
Almost half of all medical students (41 percent) and residents (53 percent) reported their attending physicians sometimes or often explicitly taught them to take medical liability into account when making clinical decisions, according to a study published in Academic Medicine.
Duration of surgery and diagnosis of bipolar disorder are among the risk factors researchers determined for surgical site infections after bariatric surgery, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.