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Here are the importance of strong leadership in business and the essential qualities a leader must have. These qualities are timeless, and they are especially important when times get tough. In the face of difficult challenges, great leaders do not retrench. Just the opposite – they step up. In a great company, you need to […]
Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee have realized updated guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infection. The new guidelines which replace the recommendations published in 2002, place a heavy emphasis on the education and training of health care personnel, using chlorhexidine scrubs […]
Read MoreIn this entry I will go over how to improve communications between anesthesia providers and hospitalists which is very important in order to maximize OR efficiency. There has been a huge growth surge for the hospitalist profession an estimated 29% of hospitals employ the specialty including 55% of hospitals with 200 or more beds. […]
Read MoreHere is another blog based on the clinical practice of anesthesia. Taking the time to put on a gown before inserting a labor epidural may do little to prevent infections in pregnant women while they are in labor. A study presented by Dr Siddiqui and colleagues at the annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric […]
Read MorePhysicians including anesthesiologists are fleeing private practice and there are now two more reasons why this trend is likely to continue or even accelerate: Governmental audits and breaches of protected health information (PHI). Audits and PHI are on the rise in physician’s practices which are threatening revenue streams at levels never seen before due to […]
Read MorePublished in Br J Anaesth. 2013;111(3):331-333. Authors: C. J. L. McCartney, S. Choi Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common, painful surgical procedure requiring good quality anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia to provide best patient care and facilitate effective rehabilitation. More than 70 000 knee replacements are performed in the UK each year and this is […]
Read MoreEvery good manager will tell you that conflict is part and parcel of the job. Whether it’s an issue within the team, or whether an external source is disrupting your progress, conflict happens. Dealing with the conflict will determine whether your project succeeds or ends up as a failure. Here are seven tips to addressing […]
Read MoreTreatment of postoperative pain after total hip arthroplasty: comparison between metamizol and paracetamol as adjunctive to opioid analgesics-prospective, double-blind, randomised study Published in Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2014 May;134(5):631-6 Authors: Oreskovic Z et al., INTRODUCTION: Metamizole use has been limited because of its risk of agranulocytosis. However, more recent literature seems to support […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requiring labels of all long-acting opioids to say they should be used strictly for patients in severe pain, a response to surging overdoses and deaths each year from the widely used pain medicines. The health regulator in September proposed the label changes, saying they were needed to highlight […]
Read MoreEarly Congress delayed the implementation of ICD-10 as part of legislation that provided a one-year patch for the sustainable growth rate formula, a move that took the healthcare industry by surprise. Healthcare providers spent years–and significant amounts of money–preparing for the new code set, which the government delayed by a year once before, and was […]
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