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1061. Don't Use That Port: Insert a PICC | PSNet
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      December 22, 2018 - The Case A 48-year-old woman receiving neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer was admitted to the hospital … Surgery was canceled, and she was placed on anticoagulation therapy and managed conservatively for appendicitis … Akl EA, Crowther M, Gutterman DD, Schuünemann HJ; American College of Chest Physicians Antithrombotic Therapy … Executive Summary: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest

1062. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2014 - The interval between symptom onset and clinical assessment will determine whether acute reperfusion therapy … thrombin time or ecarin clotting time; laboratory assays are often not processed quickly enough to make therapeutic … have a database or registry capable of tracking the number and type of stroke patients seen, their treatments … , timelines for receiving treatments, and measurement of clinical outcomes.(15) A system should be in … these recommendations it is expected that patients will achieve more accurate diagnoses, more timely therapies

1063. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 14, 2018 - vital-signs-trends-emergency-department-visits-suspected-opioid-overdoses-united-states-july https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-adherence-long-term-opioid-therapy-guidelines-reduce-opioid-misuse-primary-care

1064. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      November 06, 2015 - systems-approach-evaluating-ionizing-radiation-six-focus-areas-improve- quality-efficiency-and Radiation therapy

1065. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 05, 2012 - time-out strategy that would reduce the risk of the wrong patient receiving radiation or surgical therapy

1066. Peripheral IV in Too Long | PSNet
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      September 15, 2011 - Phlebitis (inflammation of the vein where the IV is placed) complicates IV therapy in 2.3%–60% of cases … Fortunately, after aggressive therapy and a prolonged course, the patient eventually recovered. … The extra cost of MRI, imaging-guided aspiration of epidural abscesses, 6-week IV antimicrobial therapy … Prevention of peripheral venous catheter complications with an intravenous therapy team: a randomized … Misplaced PEG August 1, 2012 WebM&M Cases More Treatment—Better

1067. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 21, 2009 - With ongoing advances in such therapy and a growing shift to outpatient treatment in infusion clinics … prevention strategies that came from their local findings and how the complexity of outpatient oncology treatment

1068. Total Parenteral Nutrition, Multifarious Errors | PSNet
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      January 23, 2017 - The patient described in this case was receiving parenteral nutrition (PN), a life-sustaining therapy … Such therapy is used in patients of all ages and across care settings (from intensive care units to the … The PN-use process refers to the numerous steps in providing PN therapy, including prescribing, order … Nutrition Support Services Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Professor, Pharmacology & Therapeutics … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy

1069. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2008 - many days and had Staphylococcus aureus in her bloodstream for more than a week despite antibiotic therapy … bacterial contamination of blood has been a well-recognized and documented problem in transfusion therapy … bacterial contamination of blood products the third leading reported cause of death from transfusion therapy … Clinicians and nurses caring for patients undergoing platelet transfusion therapy should monitor patients … suggest the possibility of a septic reaction and be prepared to discontinue the transfusion and begin treatment

1070. Diagnostic error as a result of drug-laboratory test interactions. | PSNet
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      November 21, 2018 - test interactions can lead to misinterpretation of results, misdiagnosis, and unneeded tests or therapies … March 9, 2022 ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.

1071. Spotlight (ppt file)
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      October 01, 2018 - Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant … Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis … Using procalcitonin to guide antibiotic therapy. … have an infection had higher mortality rates, which may have been related to delays in appropriate therapy … predictive value and may contribute to alert fatigue and the administration of inappropriate sepsis therapies

1072. Diseases of medical progress. | PSNet
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      June 27, 2018 - that the history of medicine provides numerous examples of how emerging illnesses develop from sound therapeutic … The author discusses more than 40 distinct entities that resulted from new and existing medication therapies … fascinating historical perspective, one that not only raises concern over all currently available novel therapies

1073. Intravenous chemotherapy preparation errors: patient safety risks identified in a pan-Canadian exploratory study. | PSNet
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      March 18, 2011 - June 13, 2018 Improving shared situation awareness for high-risk therapies in hospitalized … The use of human factors methods to identify and mitigate safety issues in radiation therapy

1074. To Resuscitate or Not? | PSNet
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      November 01, 2011 - that they would be more likely to override a DNR order when an arrest was caused by a complication of treatment … families want to be involved in decision making, establish goals based on the prognosis, and implement therapies … eg, if after several days the patient was still on mechanical ventilation and receiving vasopressor therapy … patients understand the potential course of events and prognosis, it is easier to establish the goals of therapy … Overriding a patient′s refusal of treatment after an iatrogenic complication.

1075. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2006 - instance in which a resident's misread film results in a patient being sent home without appropriate treatment … or in a patient receiving improper surgery or other therapies. … The patient did not have bleeding complications from the thrombolytic therapy. … A safeguard such as this (if extended to the use of thrombolytic therapy) may have prevented the error … more junior reviewers, or those whose interpretations could prompt procedures or life-threatening therapies

1076. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2008 - endoscopic procedure and, after the procedure, wrote orders for the patient to receive all of the previous treatments … These lists could prompt prescribers to reorder medication therapies that were discontinued for procedures … case presented in this commentary, a 25-year-old woman experienced elevated sodium levels after DDAVP therapy … if the intern further clarified the order to indicate what should be done with the patient's DDAVP therapy … The intern could have indicated to restart therapy the next day or based on the patient's sodium levels

1077. The impact of electronic communication of medication discontinuation (CancelRx) on medication safety: a pilot study. | PSNet
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      December 07, 2022 - September 20, 2023 WebM&M Cases Duplicate Therapies in … May 5, 2021 Analysis of medication therapy discontinuation orders in new electronic prescriptions

1078. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2018 - or discontinuation of a critical drug, giving the end users time to find alternative resources or therapies … 1516 directors of pharmacy, and they reported that out of 171 responses, 70.8% reported a delay in treatment … , 48.5% reported patients received suboptimal therapies, 15.8% reported a treatment failure, and 1.2% … regarding shortages along with frequent in-service education activities (when alterations from standard treatment … Drug shortages: effect on parenteral nutrition therapy. Nutr Clin Pract. 2018;33:53-61.

1079. Medication Reconciliation Victory After an Avoidable Error | PSNet
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      April 01, 2015 - Although the case above highlights the potential dangers of therapy duplication, it also illustrates … the medication reconciliation process identified the cause of the admission and resulted in prompt treatment … of the patient (in this case, discontinuation of duplicate therapies) as opposed to reducing future … as drug information from a pharmacist that included the purpose and side effects of the prescribed treatment … access to the complete medical record and prescription fill history could have identified the duplicate therapy

1080. Uptake of pharmacist recommendations by patients after discharge: implementation study of a patient-centered medicines review service. | PSNet
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      December 14, 2016 - 19, 2022 Patient outcomes in dose reduction or discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy … September 13, 2023 WebM&M Cases Duplicate Therapies in