Saying 'No' Is Often The Key To Effective Leadership
As difficult as it can be, saying no is often the key to effective leadership, says an ethics and management expert, just as most successful... Read more
New Overtime Rule: What to Expect
The Department of Labour (DOL) recently updated criteria for the overtime threshold bringing in changes that will significant affect hospitals.... Read more
Searching the Globe for Low-Cost Supplies
Supplies come second only to labour as amongst the highest healthcare costs With a view to reducing materials costs while maintaining quality,... Read more
Medical Malpractice Suits Deadline Extended
Legislation before New York state lawmakers would have a significant impact on medical malpractice law by permitting patients to sue years after... Read more
Closing The Healthcare Diversity Leadership Gap
Continued commitment is needed to drive progress and close the leadership gap in the realisation of strategic goals and objectives for... Read more
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So Why am I Worrying Now? Thoughts from the UK on Pandemic Times
My Dear Readers, Time is flying, and here I am again, sharing my thoughts as a registered nurse working during a very dramatic time. The first half of the year of 2021 is over. If you reflect now, one can not comprehend of what has happened in the world during these last months. It is almost impossible. Where will one start and stop?... Read more
What About Post-Corona?
Is there a time after COVID-19? Do you regularly hear the question of what we will do after COVID-19? Or what should we do? This is a strange question, because there will be no time after Coronavirus. Corona is an endemic virus, that is among us and does not go away. There is also no time after Influenza. Endemic viruses are here. We need to take... Read more
While perioperative care is optimized, patients die unmonitored in wards!
There is a high demand for a comfortable, small and mobile solution for affordable blood pressure and vital sign monitoring in the general ward to improve patient safety and outcome, as mortality after surgery is a thousand times higher than intraoperative death. 1 CNSystems has enhanced its non-invasive CNAP® technology for perioperative... Read more
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Liver Fibrosis: Patients Can Be At Risk Of Death Even Without Exhibiting Symptoms
2020 18 Dec
1 in 5 advanced fibrosis patients evolves to cirrhosis in as little as two and a half years. The liver is the largest gland in the human body and, weighing roughly two kilograms, it is the second largest organ after the skin. Its varied functions include supplying the brain with glucose, filtering toxins out of the blood, producing proteins,... Read more
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
Spotlight On: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Reduces CLABSI with APSS #2
2020 23 Apr
HAIs are costly both in terms of harm/mortality and cost. Close attention to aseptic practices and monitoring patients can greatly reduce the incidence of these infections. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most costly type of hospital-acquired infections, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, and financial... Read more
From Our Journals
The healing power of digital art in hospital environments
How digital art creates a healing space that benefits both patients... Read more
The Importance of Leadership and Humanism in Healthcare
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers around the globe... Read more
While Perioperative Care is Optimised, Patients Die Unmonitored in the Ward!
P atients and their families often fear surgical interventions due... Read more
Safe Transport of Critically Ill Patients
The transport of critically ill patients for diagnostic or therapeutic... Read more
35 Years of ISICEM
Prof. Antonio Artigas Director, Critical Care Centre, Sabadell... Read more
5 business analytics tools to improve the running of a healthcare institution
What data analysis tools can healthcare implement to streamline operations... Read more