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Study links proning to nerve damage
A study of 83 COVID-19 patients who were proned while placed on a ventilator found 12 developed peripheral nerve injury involving one or more major joints. The injuries were severe and included loss of hand function, frozen shoulder and foot dragging.
AHA Posts Flu Vaccination Resources for Health Care Providers
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has joined with other health care organizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to encourage everyone to get vaccinated against the flu.
Perspective: Never Forget … Always There Ready to Care
This morning, like most mornings, I looked at a picture outside of my office that was taken on Sept. 11, 2001. The picture shows doctors, nurses, administrators and other caregivers standing outside the emergency department of my local community hospital in Arlington, Va., waiting to treat victims of the attack at the Pentagon.
ASHE Webinar Series: Fire Response Case Study: Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Speakers:
Paul D. Ketron, MHA, MDiv, FACHE, CHFM Director – Engineering Services and Building Operations University of Missouri Health Care
ASHE Webinar Series: The Physical Environment of Pharmacy Compounding
Speakers:
Kevin Scarlett, RA, WA State Department of Health
Jacob McCall, CHFM, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital
UCLA Health shares COVID-19 surge planning tool
Health systems working to calculate their resource needs before a surge in COVID-19 can now avail themselves of a surge planning tool released by UCLA Health. The tool projects the numbers of inpatient beds, ICU beds and ventilators needed over a two-week period when predictions are highly accurate.
CMS launches Care Compare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Care Compare last week, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS health care comparison tools. The site is intended to give patients and caregivers an easier way to access information about physicians, hospitals and health care services.
Webinar: Implementing home hospital model to improve value
Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 is prompting a closer examination of the Hospital at Home model of care, which makes acute care available to patients in their homes.
Webinar: Perfecting prone-patient protocols during a pandemic
A review of methods used for proning in the intensive care unit, including the required staffing, necessary equipment, safety for caregivers and relative risks for patients, will be the subject of a webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Sept.16 at 1 p.m. ET.