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January 29, 2021 - These providers will then no longer be available to staff elective surgery operating rooms during the … WebM&M Cases
Endotracheal Tube Fallout in a Patient with Severe Obesity During Eye Surgery … Missed Compartment Syndrome after Steep Lithotomy Position for Laparoscopic Gynecological Surgery
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July 10, 2024 - heart, and two investigator-initiated trials are now underway, one in internal medicine and one in general … surgery, to try to understand whether parsing the rules beyond those core three or four basic ones has … [Editor's note: Since this interview was conducted, one of the studies , in surgery, was published in
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September 29, 2021 - Commentary
Quality and safety in surgery: challenges and opportunities. … recent history of interferon treatment for Hepatitis C infection and a remote history of cervical spine surgery
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August 05, 2022 - Study
Adverse events in infants less than 6 months of age after ambulatory surgery … This retrospective study of infants less than 6 months of age admitted for ambulatory surgery found that
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September 27, 2023 - Commentary
How does robotic-assisted surgery change OR safety culture? … A first-year orthopedic surgery resident was consulted to aspirate fluid from the left ankle of a patient
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December 14, 2022 - anesthesiologist, the patient was trying to communicate to him that she had undergone jaw replacement surgery … During extubation after surgery, the anesthesia care provider noticed a large (approximately 4-5 cm)
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December 14, 2022 - anesthesiologist, the patient was trying to communicate to him that she had undergone jaw replacement surgery … During extubation after surgery, the anesthesia care provider noticed a large (approximately 4-5 cm)
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July 31, 2023 - Leveraging the science of teamwork to sustain handoff improvements in cardiovascular surgery … The most frequent never events were wrong site or wrong patient surgery, wrong surgical procedure, and
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January 04, 2024 - authors present 15 perioperative near-miss events (e.g., medication administration errors, wrong-site surgery … Newspaper/Magazine Article
Shining a glaring light on surgery: technology that
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February 28, 2024 - Use of professional interpreters for patients with limited English proficiency undergoing surgery … Month’s WebM&Ms
WebM&M Cases
Airway Obstruction during Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery
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December 14, 2022 - After careful evaluation, the patient underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pleurodesis … After surgery, the patient required about 2 liters/minute of oxygen by nasal cannula to prevent dyspnea
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August 04, 2021 - October 21, 2015
Perioperative safety in plastic surgery: is the World Health Organization … Aspergillus Mediastinitis & Endocarditis in a Pediatric Patient Complicating Cardiac Surgery
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June 21, 2023 - The child described in the present case required surgery for removal of the PICC fragment. … Aspergillus Mediastinitis & Endocarditis in a Pediatric Patient Complicating Cardiac Surgery
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March 07, 2012 - Finally, while liver biopsy can be performed in essentially any location, ranging from an outpatient surgery … Quality improvement and patient care checklists in intrahospital transfers involving pediatric surgery
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June 01, 2014 - In the 1970s and 1980s, events like the 1975 Congressional hearings on unnecessary surgery
and ABC's … Getting Ready for National Health Insurance: Unnecessary Surgery.
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August 11, 2021 - Decision aids and breast cancer: do they influence choice for surgery and knowledge of treatment options … Involving patients in clinical decisions: impact of an interactive video program on use of back surgery
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August 28, 2024 - The surgery was uneventful, and the transplanted kidney was connected successfully. … RCAs over an 8-year period showed that similar adverse events (such as retained foreign objects during surgery
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July 28, 2021 - May 1, 2009
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January 26, 2022 - Gary Raff, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#15
Co-Chair … Prospective analysis of percutaneous central venous
catheterization in infants <4.0 kg undergoing cardiac surgery
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March 30, 2020 - For example, do we need to still look at wrong site surgery?