What can be better than a caregiver-patient alliance for safety?
Check out this website from PPAHS
“Improving health and safety involves many facets:
- Innovative technology to provide for necessary monitoring of patient vital signs. For example, as the Wall Street Journal proclaimed in its story about Howard Snitzer “A little known device is shaking conventional wisdom for reviving people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest: People may be able to go much longer without a pulse than the 20 minutes previously believed.”
- Health Care Providers who must make critical live-saving decisions, such as anesthesiologists who, as the American Society of Anesthesiologists says, “are responsible for administering anesthesia to relieve pain and for managing vital life functions, including breathing, heart rhythm and blood pressure, during surgery. After surgery, they maintain the patient in a comfortable state during the recovery and are involved in the provision of critical care medicine in the intensive care unit.”
- Information on what works and how it enhances patient health and safety.”
Much of their site is dedicated to respiratory events and technology.
Here is an interesting post about children and sedation. Is monitoring RR and o2 via pulse oximeter giving us a false sense of security? http://ppahs.wordpress.com/statistics-studies/continuously-electronically-monitoring-advised-for-children-undergoing-sedation/
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