American Medical Compliance

APRIL 16, 2024

The following Survey Readiness Training for Healthcare Providers is designed to educate healthcare providers on the purpose and importance of survey readiness in healthcare. Surveys may play a large role in your healthcare facility. Also, it is important to understand the purpose and the regulations associated with them. Because of this, AMC can help your healthcare organization become more aware of healthcare surveys.

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Outcomes 92

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ve been using Tuesday to post the “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” articles recently. Even though I’ve got the case-control study ready to go, I’m taking a quick break because I spent way too much time thinking about this article last week. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive all posts and support our work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.

Radiology 78

Radiology Radiology Stroke Hospitals 78

American Medical Compliance

APRIL 16, 2024

The following Understanding Medication Safety Training educates healthcare providers on common medication safety issues. Ensuring patient safety during health services delivery is fundamental for an efficient healthcare system. Additionally, a strong organizational culture of patient safety and quality enables service providers to prepare for a variety of reasons.

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Patient Safety Administration Outcomes 81

Emergency Medicine Ireland

APRIL 16, 2024

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we cover an incredibly common inpatient issue – hypnatraemia. We’ll often find 1 or 2 of these in our high dependency unit at any given time, mainly due to the requirement for frequent testing of Na levels that seems beyond the remit of normal ward level care. The approach I describe here is neither comprehensive or especially robust but it is how I approach it.

Wellness 74

Wellness 74

American Medical Compliance

APRIL 16, 2024

The following Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship Training educates healthcare providers on the importance of antibiotic stewardship in healthcare. Additionally, antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how clinicians prescribe antibiotics to patients who use them. Furthermore, improving antibiotic prescribing and use is critical to effectively treat infections, protect patients from harm caused by unnecessary antibiotic use, and combat antibiotic resistance.

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Leadership Sepsis Outcomes Hospitals 76

Core Ultrasound

APRIL 16, 2024

We identify the presence of kidney stones using ultrasound with a pretest suspicion of kidney stones then identifying the presence or absence of hydronephrosis.

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Ultrasounds 76

American Medical Compliance

APRIL 16, 2024

The following Navigating Advance Directives Training for Healthcare Providers is designed to educate healthcare providers on the legal significance of advance directives. During an emergency or at the end of life, you may face questions about your medical treatment and not be able to answer them. You also may assume your loved ones know what you would want, but that’s not always true.

Documentation/Coding 72

Documentation/Coding Research Outcomes 72

Stop and Think

APRIL 16, 2024

I wrote this week, on Sensible Medicine, a summary of the DanGer-Shock trial of a mechanical assist device in patients with cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). The trial was positive. It showed that the device lowers death rates over standard of care. Yet my summary post did terrible. Few comments, likes and the traffic was low.

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Shock Wellness Hospitals 46

EMergucate

APRIL 16, 2024

This chest x-ray is from an adult patient with chest pain. What can be seen? Answer will be posted later.

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EMS 52

EMergucate

APRIL 16, 2024

44 year old man presented to ED with fatigue and weakness. His blood gases showed the following: PH = 7.

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