American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Ensuring the safety and well-being of both patients and staff is paramount. In this blog, we’ll delve into the best practices that healthcare organizations can adopt to achieve and uphold OSHA compliance. In healthcare settings, a key concern is the risk of exposure to infectious diseases.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With concern for malaria, it is very important to identify who is non-immune and semi-immune as this can affect both the timeframe for illness after departure from the endemic country as well as severity of illness. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 44 (2021) 102196. Third times the charm! Clin Microbiol Rev. 16 Oct 2023.

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PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Fever in the ICU: Guideline Update The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) issued an interim update to their 2008 recommendations for the management of fever in the ICU. PulmCCM is not affiliated with SCCM or IDSA.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Employees Returning to Work Infection Control Compliance (ICC) course is designed to educate employees on how to protect themselves and others and mitigate community transmission of infectious diseases. They reduce the spread of infectious diseases in the workplace. ICC training sets industry standards.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

No fines or fees are implemented as well. The local public health boards are the ones that set the guidelines to use for the best-assisted living facility training. Hence, it is necessary to plan the core training well and the testing schedule accordingly. The state testing schedule is limited.

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Administration Infectious Diseases Operations Best Practices 52

American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

No fines or fees are implemented as well. The local public health boards are the ones that set the guidelines to use for the best-assisted living facility training. Hence, it is necessary to plan the core training well and the testing schedule accordingly. The state testing schedule is limited.

EMS 52

EMS Administration Infectious Diseases Operations 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 22, 2024

Choosing Wisely aims to help clinicians align with best practices by avoiding interventions that are not supported by evidence. Practice patterns often promote the overuse of ordering blood cultures in an effort to prevent a child from needing a second poke or to try to reduce diagnostic uncertainty.

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