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Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. September 22-23, 2022.
Järvinen TLN, Rickert J, Lee MJ. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2013-2022.
This piece focuses on measuring and monitoring patient safety in the prehospital setting.
This WebM&M describes two incidences of the incorrect patient being transported from the Emergency Department (ED) to other parts of the hospital for tests or procedures. In one case, the wrong patient was identified before undergoing an unnecessary procedure; in the second case, the wrong patient received an unnecessary chest x-ray. The commentary highlights the consequences of patient transport errors and strategies to enhance the safety of patient transport and prevent transport-related errors.
An increasing volume of patients presenting for acute care can create a need for more ICU beds and intensivists and lead to longer wait times and boarding of critically ill patients in the emergency department (ED).1 Data suggest that boarding of critically ill patients for more than 6 hours in the emergency department leads to poorer outcomes and increased mortality.2,3 To address this issue, University of Michigan Health, part of Michigan Medicine, developed an ED-based ICU, the first of its kind, in its 1,000-bed adult hospital.
Lane S, Gross M, Arzola C, et al. Can J Anaesth. Epub 2022 Mar 22.
March KL, Peters MJ, Finch CK, et al. J Pharm Pract. 2022;35(1):86-93.