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  1. CVC Placement: Speak Now or Do Not Use the Line | PSNet

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    November 01, 2003 - routinely placed each year for infusion, phlebotomy, and/or hemodynamic monitoring.( 1 ) Although overall complication … rates for CVC insertion should be exceedingly low, published complication rates vary considerably and … Failure and complication rates by three percutaneous approaches. … Complication Frequency   Internal Jugular (%) Subclavian (%) Femoral (%) Arterial

  2. Don’t Bite Your Tongue. | PSNet

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    September 18, 2024 - Background Oropharyngeal injuries are a known complication of airway management during procedures … monitoring may minimize the risk of paralysis, which is a catastrophic and potentially preventable complication … A rare complication of tracheal intubation: tongue perforation. 

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 02, 2011 - complications during a given hospitalization and found that nearly 20% of patients experienced a medical complication

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 27, 2020 - After accessing the abdomen with the trocar without complication, the surgeon inserted the laparoscope … Patient burns, though less common, are clearly a morbid complication, accounting for about 5% of laparoscopic … burn injuries result from stray electrosurgical current released inside the abdomen, the less common complication

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 27, 2020 - This article discusses a surgical complication incident that illustrates the importance of transparency

  6. Microsoft PowerPoint - Spotlight Case_Postop Cervical Hematomas_12.15.2022 FINAL.pptx (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2023 - SURGERY: TWO CASES OF POSTOPERATIVE CERVICAL HEMATOMA Two cases highlighting the rare but dangerous complication … Kuhn, MD, MAS 9 BACKGROUND 10 Background (1) • These cases describe the rare but dangerous complication … • To successfully manage this life-threatening complication, appropriate patient, caregiver and clinical … Points (1) 25 • Postoperative hematoma causing airway collapse is a rare but potentially lethal complication … after anterior cervical spine surgery: analysis of the results of risk factors associated with airway complication

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 22, 2024 - diagnostic-stewardship-improve-patient-outcomes-and-healthcare-associated- infection-hai Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a common complication

  8. Intraosseous Line Extravasation in a Pediatric Trauma Patient | PSNet

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    September 29, 2021 - significant morbidity can occur if the catheter is not inserted correctly or not removed promptly once a complication … of extravasation inherent to IO lines, it is critical that clinicians and care teams anticipate this complication … Compartment syndrome is a rare but serious complication associated with IO lines. … Intraosseous extravasation complication reports. … Case report of a complication. J Bone Jt Surg . 1993;75(3):428–9. [ Available at ] Spivey WH.

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2023 - Serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia: the serious complication repository project of

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    August 14, 2019 - analysis-human-performance-deficiencies-associated-surgical-adverse-events https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surgical-skill-and-complication-rates-after-bariatric-surgery

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2021 - sustaining-teamwork-behaviors-through-reinforcement-teamstepps-principles Poor teamwork in operating rooms is associated with higher postoperative complication

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    July 26, 2022 - awakenings, and encouraging mobility.16-19 Approaches to Improving Patient Safety Beyond the direct complication … The underlying cause was a serious complication of a relatively simple procedure that is commonly performed … The impact of the complication was compounded by lapses in communication between nursing staff and other … A case report of esophageal perforation: Complication of nasogastric tube placement.

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2013 - routinely placed each year for infusion, phlebotomy, and/or hemodynamic monitoring.(1) Although overall complication … rates for CVC insertion should be exceedingly low, published complication rates vary considerably and … Failure and complication rates by three percutaneous approaches. … Complication Frequency   Internal Jugular (%) Subclavian (%) Femoral (%) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 01, 2023 - metrics measure the ability of healthcare teams and hospitals to prevent mortality following a major complication

  15. Agitated Delirium Contributes to Missed Testing and Delayed Diagnosis of Gastric Perforation | PSNet

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    June 28, 2023 - awakenings, and encouraging mobility. 16-19 Approaches to Improving Patient Safety Beyond the direct complication … The underlying cause was a serious complication of a relatively simple procedure that is commonly performed … The impact of the complication was compounded by lapses in communication between nursing staff and other … A case report of esophageal perforation: Complication of nasogastric tube placement.

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2008 - You end up providing better patient care and having lower complication rates. … But when you look at the scant data in the literature in terms of complication rates for the various … Comparing that to our data, we've demonstrated a lower complication rate. … If an institution has a baseline complication rate for procedures and then a group wants to start a … At our institution at this point, the commitment goes beyond complication rates in the strict sense.

  17. Bowel Injury After Laparoscopic Surgery | PSNet

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    January 19, 2016 - However, a surgeon encountering this complication and lacking in experience in laparoscopic suturing … Bowel injury as a complication of laparoscopy. Br J Surg. 2004;91:1253-1258. [go to PubMed] 2.

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836976/psn-pdf
    April 27, 2022 - significant morbidity can occur if the catheter is not inserted correctly or not removed promptly once a complication … extravasation inherent to IO lines, it is critical that clinicians and care teams anticipate this complication … Compartment syndrome is a rare but serious complication associated with IO lines. … Intraosseous extravasation complication reports.Ann Emerg Med. 1994;23(2):363-366. … Case report of a complication. J Bone Jt Surg. 1993;75(3):428–9. [Available at] 33. Spivey WH.

  19. Ventricular Wall Injury during a Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization | PSNet

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    September 01, 2012 - myocardial infarction, and stroke were even less, generally well below 1%. 2,3 One often-discussed complication … perforation is exceedingly rare, with only case reports published. 10,11 Unfortunately, in this case, the complication … Had this complication been recognized when the patient was still on the catheterization table, a right … Any discussion of a catastrophic complication of this type is incomplete without exploring how communication … dissection/perforation or left ventricular (LV) perforation is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 10, 2021 - prevention-failure-rescue-obstetric-patients-realist-review Failure to rescue, the delayed or missed recognition of a potentially fatal complication
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