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Over the span of one year at Children’s Hospital, a seizure went unmonitored, a patient did not receive enough antibiotics, a catheter was inserted into the wrong kidney and blood pressure was not checked closely during surgery, according to reports in The Boston Globe...
Nevertheless, he stipulated that the allocation of responsibility to residents should be a gradual one. Moreover, he emphasized the importance of residents collaborating closely with the senior attending physician in “educated communication” to arrive at the correct choice for patient care...
...first mobile intensive-care units and offered up a steady stream of efficiencies and innovations against the ever more frequent waves of carnage produced by suicide bombers. As the director of emergency medicine at Jerusalem's Shaare-Zedek hospital, Applebaum, 50, was known for his obsession with reducing patient waiting time, treating Palestinian and Israeli victims alike, having once performed emergency surgery in a Jerusalem street and being one of the first to arrive at the hospital after explosions. He was a comforting figure to ambulance drivers and paramedics, most of whom had trained with him. "He was everybody...
...RFID is about to reach ubiquity, bringing its ability to track everything, everywhere, all the time from the factory right into your home. Spooky but incredibly productive, RFID is the basis of 6,000 patents filed for wireless payments, keyless entries, cosmetics mixing, laundry tracking and patient monitoring. Think of it as the me-generation successor to the bar code, a technology that initially had its own Big Brother rap to beat. Bar codes identify a category of products. All Gillette Mach 3 razor blades, for instance, have the same code. With RFID tags, each packet of Mach 3 blades...
...Another important step is readying the "software" of disease control: an open, international surveillance network capable of quickly identifying the first cases. The biggest problem there is that the symptoms of SARS are so variable, making it hard to spot. Singapore's newest patient, for example, had a fever and a dry cough but lacked the telltale pneumonia of most cases. Even the best early diagnostic tests are slow and at most 80% reliable. The good news is that China, which tried to hide the extent of its outbreak last spring, has a new attitude. Guangdong has begun regularly sharing...