Learn about LINX, a surgical procedure for treating chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Perioperative
A special week for perioperative nurses
Learn about Perioperative Nurse Week and perioperative nurisng.
Act fast when new neurologic deficits arise
Alert clinicians take immediate steps to eliminate a life threatening epidural hematoma.
Adherence to SCIP not always associated with lower postop infections
Consumer Reports rates heart-surgery groups
Davol XenMatrix Surgical Graft recall
Dispelling pain myths
Read up on the latest evidence-based best practices in pain management.
Drugs Today – August 2008
Web Exclusive! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals, at www.AmericanNurseToday.com/journal.
Drugs Today – July/August 2009
A weekly update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
Drugs Today – May 2008
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
Far from home, bringing smiles to children’s faces
FDA announces recall of Stryker cutting guide for TKA
FDA approves gel to stop blood flow during blood vessel surgery
FDA updates safety data for silicone gel-filled breast implants
FDA warns of risk of death from postop codeine use in children
FDA warns of risk of surgical mesh used to repair pelvic organ prolapse
Get positive results with negative-pressure wound therapy
The author present tips to help you avoid pitfalls and ensure safe use of negative-pressure wound therapy, which applies subatmospheric pressure to accelerate the healing of complex wounds.
Handling with care: The bariatric patient
Technological advances, special equipment, and screening algorithms help healthcare facilities and nurses meet the needs of bariatric patients while reducing worker injury.
Higher percentage of BSN nurses associated with lower rates of postsurgery mortality
Hospital-acquired infections mortalities, costs
Two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a study released Feb. 22 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Improved surgical communication reduces communication breakdowns
Little Progress in fight against health care-associated infections, says AHRQ
Number of deaths after surgery declines
Nurse anesthetists: Demand is up and the secret is out
Perioperative nurses: Keeping surgical patients safe
Postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery associated with cognitive decline first year after surgery
Protocol reduces complications for complex spinal surgery
Putting a stop to postop nausea and vomiting
GI distress after surgery is a scary prospect for patients, and an all-too-common reality. But it isn’t inevitable. Learn how to minimize your patients’ risk and relieve their symptoms.
Quality-improvement initiative: Classifying and documenting surgical wounds
Interprofessional collaboration promoted a successful initiative to improve wound classification.
Quiz Time
Recent advances in cardiac diagnostic and surgical procedures
New techniques expand the options for high-risk patients and cause fewer complications than conventional surgery.
Reiki: Ancent healing art for today’s new healthcare vision
Six more hot drugs for today and beyond
These six drug profiles, along with the six in the March issue of American Nurse Today, bring you up to date on significant advances in drug therapy.
Spotting trouble after spinal surgery
The rapid response team makes all the right moves when a patient experiences neck swelling and difficulty swallowing after an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
Stemming the rising tide of acute kidney injury
By obtaining a thorough history and conducting a careful assessment, you can help patients avoid this condition.
Study in Health Affairs states surgical checklists save money
Study: Delayed transfer to ICU increases mortality risk
Study: General anesthesia, gender affects ambulatory surgery anxiety
Study: Health care organizations reduce SSIs by nearly half with Joint Commission project
Study: High glucose in patients with diabetes increases risk of dehiscence after surgery for chronic wounds
Study: High patient satisfaction not linked to surgical quality processes
Study: Preoperative hyponatremia associated with perioperative mortality
Study: Smoking increases risk of complications after colorectal surgery
Study: Surgical checklist reduces 30-day morbidity
Surgeons between 35 and 50 years old provide safest thyroid surgery care
Take Note – January 2009
A monthly round-up of clinical and practice news and alerts.
Take Note – June 2008
Teaming up to improve the quality of surgical care
Using Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to produce better patient outcomes
The dangers of postop abdominal distention
The rapid response team scrambles to save this patient.
Understanding the dangers of waste anesthetic gases
Exposure to volatile anesthetic gases poses a hazard to anyone who works in an operating or recovery room.