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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

Sepsis screening, for me, comes in many different flavors -- from EMR alerts based on lab and vital sign data to anyone being able to draw a lactate or call an RRT. If sepsis screening was shown to be beneficial in one hospital, would it be beneficial in another, with an entirely different set of caregivers?

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7 Fast Growing Entry Level Healthcare Jobs for 2025

ACI Medical & Dental School

Medical Assistants perform both administrative tasks like scheduling appointments and clinical duties such as taking patient vital signs, assisting with examinations, and preparing treatment rooms. Medical Assistants work in healthcare settings such as clinics, hospitals, and doctor’s offices. Where Do They Work?

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Friday Reflection 24: I Would Rather Go Back in Time

Sensible Medicine

Patients present with troublesome symptoms that they “just want checked out before the weekend” and I’m left either worrying about them all weekend or admitting them to the hospital where I know little will happen for the next two days. He had also had had a normal stress test a couple of years before.

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Future-Proof Your Career in Medicine

Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) roles are particularly valuable, with growing demand in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities. CNA training in North Carolina equips trainees with the practical skills needed to assist patients with daily activities, monitor vital signs, and communicate with medical staff.

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Friday Reflection 31: 30 Years and Counting

Sensible Medicine

For each of them, their final year was filled with a frenzy of consultations, calls to come for another evaluation after I was awakened with a new idea, or hospitalizations for observation and diagnostics. This is what everyone fears, square D. “He had just seen his doctor and was told he was in perfect health.”

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What One Hospital’s Slow Recovery From a Cyberattack Means for Patients

Scrubs

They were just coming out of a weeks-long surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, fueled by the delta variant. a Friday, the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call. “My The hackers left a ransom note on every server, demanding the hospital pay $3 million in bitcoin within a few days. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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