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Up Front: Advocating for Patient Safety

  In late June 2007, the Joint Commission announced its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and Requirements that apply to the nearly 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and certified health care organizations and programs. The development and annual updating of these goals is overseen by an expert panel that includes patient safety experts, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk […]

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Servicing Surgical Video Systems

Integrated ORs offer a streamlined and controlled environment with more space by eliminating the cart, removing equipment from the floors, and consolidating and reducing the amount of cables and wires in the room. Here’s the problem with downtime on video systems: You have brought a patient into the OR, put him or her to sleep, […]

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