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Life-saving robots on the rise
Computer-assisted surgery is steadily making inroads across the world, improving patient care and recovery as well as enabling hospitals to better control costs.
Robots would make ideal surgeons, says physician and researcher Catherine Mohr. They never tire and are always as precise as possible when it comes to performing complex procedures in the fields of urology, gynecology or oncology. And with surgical robots, humans are always in control, sitting at a console to guide the machine
The right dose of expertise: How Agfa HealthCare is helping stakeholders balance ?imaging gently? with quality imaging
In the days of film-on-a-lightbox, dose seemed easier to control. If you overexposed film, the image would turn black. It you underexposed, the image would be too light. These technical realities exercised subtle control over the range of dose that would produce a useable image. With the advent of digital imaging, those subtle nuances have changed.
Digital dose creep
Technologists soon learned that slight overexposure in digital imaging could create a better looking image. So there was a natural tendency for doses to slowly edge higher in the name of image quality. Add to this the steady increase of new types of modalities coming on line and the patient
H?pital Tenon, Paris, reduces X-ray dosage by 50% with mobile digital radiography system
During a programme to modernize its buildings and equipment, H
HCAHPS Towards the patient-centred hospital
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient survey that provides structured inputs to monitor and assess hospital services, and drive their improvement. HCAHPS (pronounced
LITERATURE ALERT: Implementing delirium screening in the ICU
Objective:
To review delirium screening tools available for use in the adult ICU and PICU, to review evidence-based delirium screening implementation, and to discuss common pitfalls encountered during delirium screening in the ICU.
Data Sources:
Review of delirium screening
literature and expert opinion
Results:
Over the past decade, tools specifically designed for use in critically ill adults and children have been developed and validated. Delirium screening has been effectively implemented across many ICU settings. Keys to effective implementation include addressing barriers to routine screening, multifaceted training such as lectures, case-based scenarios, one-on-one teaching, and real-time feedback of delirium screening, and interdisciplinary communication through discussion of a patient
