Hospital Administration Care category: 168 books
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 1: The importance of preoperative evaluation of hemostasis and anemia
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This case report describes the poor outcome of a female patient who underwent elective nephrectomy. Unfortunately, the patient was suffering from undiagnosed preoperative platelet dysfunction and anemia, although blood count and clotting were almost within normal ranges two weeks earlier at the day...
by Kurt Darr, Tracy J. Farnsworth, Robert C. Myrtle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies. With more than 50% new content in this sixth edition, Cases in Health Services Management includes 28 cases and 12 ethics incidents that address contemporary issues encountered...
by Florence Nightingale
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of...
From Western Medicine to Global Medicine
The Hospital Beyond the West (1 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The hospital has for many years been the symbol of modern, scientific medicine. Indeed, it was in the hospital that modern Western medicine was born. But until recently we had little idea of how or why these iconic medical institutions developed outside the Western World. From Western Medicine to Global...
Heal Your Hospital
Studierende für neue Wege der Gesundheitsversorgung
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Wie sähe ein Gesundheitssystem aus, in dem der Patient im Mittelpunkt steht? Wie können ihre Beschäftigten die Selbstheilungskräfte effektiver stärken? Welches Vergütungssystem erfasst die Qualität medizinischer (Be-)Handlung am besten? Diese und andere Fragen diskutierten Studierende der Universität...
Care Coordination
A Blueprint for Action for RNs
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In today’s health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent. It’s an effective way to improve quality and outcomes. Nurses are integral to this process, yet most feel their contributions are unrecognized and underappreciated. What can nurses do? Care Coordination:...
Find the Black Box
Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
200,000 preventable deaths each year in the US healthcare system is like having 20
Boeing 747 airliners crashing each week. Things are bad in our nations healthcare
delivery system; people are dying needlessly in hospitals every single day. In Find
the Black Box, author Dr. Ira Williams provides a...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Now more than ever, all health care delivery organizations have a greater responsibility to secure their systems, medical devices, and patient data. Most health care organizations face...
Designed to Adapt
Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Dr. John Kenagy’s formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed “Adaptive Design,” a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people.
Dr....
How to Heal
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease. Through stories filled with compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor, Dr. Jeff Kane shows readers...
by Chase Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Medical Terminology
45 Mins or Less to Memorize, Pronounce and Understand Medical Terms. The Best and Most Effective Way to Build Your Medical Vocabulary Quickly!
Ever wondered what the medical terms you hear in a hospital or Grey’s Anatomy mean? You are definitely in the majority because...
by Allen B. Repp, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This issue, edited by Dr. Allen Repp, includes the following articles: Pericarditis; Bedside ultrasound evaluation of shock; Cardiac implantable device infections; Hypernatremia;...
Never Be Afraid to Do the Right Thing
A Leadership Guide in an Age of Change and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this business memoir, Dr. Levey shares with the reader lessons learned from many years of experience.
A trained internist and endocrinologist, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute while at the University of Miami, a senior vice president for one of the world’s leading...