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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This would mean that instituting sepsis screening would lead to escalating treatment in patients – transferring them to the ICU, escalating antibiotics, bringing in more consultants – without benefiting them. If patient data tripped the alert, an EMR pop-up message would appear for nurses and physicians.

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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. could benefit from adopting elements of international models, such as formalized transfer agreements and standardized protocols. Obstetric care in the U.S.

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More Than One-Third of Data Breaches Due to Third-Party Compromises

The HIPAA Journal

of all data breaches in 2024 originated from third-party compromises, up 6.5% Cl0p is by far the most prolific threat actor in this category due to the mass exploitation of vulnerabilities in third-party file transfer solutions. According to a recent report from SecurityScorecard, at least 35.5%

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Should I Start Lifting If I Want to Be a Psych Nurse?

Scrubs

Nurses stand for hours, transferring and lifting patients, and carrying out a myriad of tasks that demand physical resilience. The following exercises can bolster your core, legs, and back strength, which are essential for a psychiatric nurse. Wrapping Up Are you considering hitting the gym before stepping onto the psych ward?

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3 big lessons I learned when my patient almost fell

Scrubs

My patient was five days post-stroke and waiting on a bed on another unit and would probably transfer today. that I decided to follow his lead. When he could barely hold himself up, I again thought to myself, “We really should just use the lift…” and said that to the CNA. “No, We stood him up and he was dead weight.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Acceptance followed and waxed and waned.

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