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Author: Chantal Simon Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191574953 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 296
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Designed for the busy GP, Emergencies in Primary Care covers the range of emergencies GPs might expect to encounter in the primary care setting, from the immediately life-threatening to the smaller but urgent problems that can and do arise. Written in a concise and didactic style, it incorporates useful algorithms to make complex management straightforward. Government guidelines are incorporated along with links to further information sources. Each clinical topic is succinctly addressed with all the information needed to make an accurate diagnosis, other diagnoses to consider and a clear management strategy.
Author: Chantal Simon Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191574953 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 296
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Designed for the busy GP, Emergencies in Primary Care covers the range of emergencies GPs might expect to encounter in the primary care setting, from the immediately life-threatening to the smaller but urgent problems that can and do arise. Written in a concise and didactic style, it incorporates useful algorithms to make complex management straightforward. Government guidelines are incorporated along with links to further information sources. Each clinical topic is succinctly addressed with all the information needed to make an accurate diagnosis, other diagnoses to consider and a clear management strategy.
Author: Liam Donaldson Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030594033 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 496
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Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Author: J.A. Kellum Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers ISBN: 3318024074 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 218
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Associated with both acute kidney injury (AKI) and cardio-renal syndromes (CRS), new biomarkers represent both a popular area of investigation and a new opportunity for advancement of therapy. This book contains the resolutions of the most recent ADQI conferences on biomarkers in AKI (Dublin) and on cardio-renal syndromes (Venice). The first part answers specific questions about new biomarkers and their use and utility in AKI: What are the most suitable candidate molecules and physiologic measures, how solid and evidence based is the discovery phase? How can we incorporate the new biomarkers in the AKI conceptual model describing the evolution from susceptibility to insult, decreased GFR and organ death? Even if we have a positive biomarker pattern and we can identify patients at risk or patients with early or even subclinical AKI, how is this information affecting our clinical behavior and practice? The second part is dedicated to the appraisal of the current knowledge about the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in different forms of CRS: it contains contributions on the state-of-the-art knowledge and practice of CRS, particularly focusing on the pathophysiology of the five subtypes. Acute and chronic mechanisms of damage are explored in depth, with particular attention to the primacy of organ involvement and the subsequent pathways of organ crosstalk.Presenting the most recent research in the field of biomarkers, AKI and CRS, this publication is an important educational tool for advanced investigators and clinical experts, but also for students and fellows.
Author: World Health Organization (Genève). World Alliance for Patient Safety Publisher: ISBN: 9789241598552 Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
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Confronted with worldwide evidence of substantial public health harm due to inadequate patient safety, the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2002 adopted a resolution (WHA55.18) urging countries to strengthen the safety of health care and monitoring systems. The resolution also requested that WHO take a lead in setting global norms and standards and supporting country efforts in preparing patient safety policies and practices. In May 2004, the WHA approved the creation of an international alliance to improve patient safety globally; WHO Patient Safety was launched the following October. For the first time, heads of agencies, policy-makers and patient groups from around the world came together to advance attainment of the goal of "First, do no harm" and to reduce the adverse consequences of unsafe health care. The purpose of WHO Patient Safety is to facilitate patient safety policy and practice. It is concentrating its actions on focused safety campaigns called Global Patient Safety Challenges, coordinating Patients for Patient Safety, developing a standard taxonomy, designing tools for research policy and assessment, identifying solutions for patient safety, and developing reporting and learning initiatives aimed at producing 'best practice' guidelines. Together these efforts could save millions of lives by improving basic health care and halting the diversion of resources from other productive uses. The Global Patient Safety Challenge, brings together the expertise of specialists to improve the safety of care. The area chosen for the first Challenge in 2005-2006, was infection associated with health care. This campaign established simple, clear standards for hand hygiene, an educational campaign and WHO's first Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. The problem area selected for the second Global Patient Safety Challenge, in 2007-2008, was the safety of surgical care. Preparation of these Guidelines for Safe Surgery followed the steps recommended by WHO. The groundwork for the project began in autumn 2006 and included an international consultation meeting held in January 2007 attended by experts from around the world. Following this meeting, expert working groups were created to systematically review the available scientific evidence, to write the guidelines document and to facilitate discussion among the working group members in order to formulate the recommendations. A steering group consisting of the Programme Lead, project team members and the chairs of the four working groups, signed off on the content and recommendations in the guidelines document. Nearly 100 international experts contributed to the document (see end). The guidelines were pilot tested in each of the six WHO regions--an essential part of the Challenge--to obtain local information on the resources required to comply with the recommendations and information on the feasibility, validity, reliability and cost-effectiveness of the interventions.
Author: GARCÍA-MOYA SÁNCHEZ, RUTH Publisher: Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A. ISBN: 8428397996 Category : Education Languages : es Pages : 159
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Esta obra presenta el contenido formativo que responde al currículo de la unidad UF0681 Valoración inicial del paciente en urgencias o emergencias sanitarias, primera unidad del módulo MF0070_2 Técnicas de soporte vital básico y de apoyo al soporte vital avanzado, perteneciente al certificado de profesionalidad Transporte Sanitario (SANT0208), regulado por el RD 710/2011 de 20 de mayo.;Las situaciones de emergencias debutan en la mayoría de casos de manera brusca con mayor mortalidad en momentos iniciales, previos al hospital. La respuesta adecuada a estas situaciones es un equipo de emergencias integrado, por eso es importante reforzar este equipo de emergencias profesionalizándolo, cualificándolo, formándolo para que sea capaz de realizar un manejo inicial del paciente en situaciones de riesgo vital aplicándole medidas básicas de soporte, e informando en todo momento al Centro Coordinador de Emergencias Sanitarias para que pueda enviar un recurso superior y alerte al hospital.;El contenido se presenta de manera didáctica y práctica: imágenes, destacados, cuadros, mapas conceptuales, ejercicios de aplicación, de resolución y de evaluación, resúmenes, bibliografía, webgrafía y páginas de documentación contribuyen a profundizar en el aprendizaje, afianzándolo y reforzándolo. Por su estructura y estilo, docente y alumno lo utilizarán de manera sencilla, práctica y estimulante.;En definitiva, una obra imprescindible tanto para profesionales sanitarios como para quienes inmersos en proceso de formación desempeñarán su actividad en este entorno laboral.;Los autores, titulados en Enfermería y Terapia Ocupacional, tienen una amplia formación y experiencia en urgencias, emergencias y atención sociosanitaria, desempeñando su función asistencial principal en este ámbito. Son docentes de formación profesional impartiendo el título de Técnico de Emergencias Sanitarias, Técnico en Cuidados Auxiliares y formación especializada en asistencia sociosanitaria y en emergencias extrahospitalarias, tanto en institutos de formación profesional como en diferentes organizaciones de reconocido prestigio nacional e internacional. Ello les permite abordar los contenidos desde una perspectiva especializada e interdisciplinar, destacar los aspectos clave para el desempeño de la práctica profesional y utilizar una metodología atractiva y adaptada al alumno.
Author: World Health Organization Publisher: Global Observatory for eHealth ISBN: 9789241564144 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 0
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The eHealth series is primarily meant for government ministries of health, information technology, and telecommunications, as well as others working in eHealth -- academics, researchers, eHealth professionals, nongovernmental organizations, and donors. The telemedicine module of the 2009 survey examined the current level of development of four fields of telemedicine: teleradiology, teledermatogy, telepathology, and telepsychology, as well as four mechanisms that facilitate the promotion and development of telemedicine solutions in the short- and long-term: the use of a national agency, national policy or strategy, scientific development, and evaluation. Telemedicine: Opportunities and Developments in Member States discusses the results of the telemedicine module, which was completed by 114 countries (59% of Member States).
Author: Bruno J. Vellas Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers ISBN: 3805568037 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 202
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This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.
Author: Thierry Moulin Publisher: ISBN: 9783805591553 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This issue is a dedicated supplement published in addition to the regular issues of 'Cerebrovascular Diseases' focussing on one specific topic. 'Cerebrovascular Diseases' is a well-respected, international peer-reviewed journal in Neurology. Supplement issues are included in the subscription.
Author: Ana María Rivas Hidalgo Publisher: IC Editorial ISBN: 8411030288 Category : Law Languages : es Pages : 170
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SANT0208. TRANSPORTE SANITARIO". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
Author: Nathan I. Cherny Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199656096 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1281
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Emphasising the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care the fourth edition of this text also looks at the individual professional roles that contribute to the best-quality palliative care.
Author: Chantal Simon
Author: Chantal Simon
Author: Liam Donaldson
Author: J.A. Kellum
Author: World Health Organization (Genève). World Alliance for Patient Safety
Author: GARCÍA-MOYA SÁNCHEZ, RUTH
Author: World Health Organization
Author: Bruno J. Vellas
Author: Thierry Moulin
Author: Ana María Rivas Hidalgo
Author: Nathan I. Cherny