WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Date: October 26, 2017
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These days, no one thinks twice about getting a mole removed or undergoing cataract surgery outside of a hospital. Heading to an office practice or an ambulatory care center for what's considered "minor surgery" tends to be more convenient for the patient and often more cost effective. According to recent figures, upwards of 20 million outpatient procedures are performed in the US each year — everything from cosmetic to knee to eye surgeries. As the numbers rise, so do concerns about safety.
While serious harm, including deaths, remains uncommon in outpatient settings, adverse events can and do occur. When anesthesia is part of the surgical procedure, clinicians and staff need to know about the complications that might arise requiring immediate, lifesaving steps.
What are the complications? What are the specific steps? It's all laid out in a new checklist on this episode of WIHI: A New Emergency Checklist for Office-Based Surgery.
WIHI: Reports from the Frontlines of Effective Crisis Management
WIHI: Primary Care's (New) Pressures and Possibilities
WIHI: Health Care’s Newest Improvers: Patient and Family Advisors
WIHI: The Newest Innovator on the Block: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
WIHI: A Legible Prescription for Health Care
WIHI: Alert to Change: New Models for Residency Work Hours
WIHI: The Power of Specialty Care – and the Necessity to Use It Wisely
WIHI: The Patient Activist
WIHI: Finding the Will to Bend the Cost Curve
WIHI: Nursing’s New Roadmap: Education, the Workforce, and Health Care Quality
WIHI: The Leaders Needed for the Changes Health Care Needs
WIHI: The Power to Detect and Reduce Harm: IHI’s Global Trigger Tool and Adverse Events in the US
WIHI: Reducing Readmissions, Restoring Revenues: Making Good Care Count
WIHI: The Buzz about Medical Training: It’s (Slowly) Changing
WIHI: Leaders Never Stop Learning
WIHI: Against All Odds: Maternal Survival in Ghana and the US
WIHI: Unprofessional Behavior Not Permitted Here
WIHI: The Image of Better (Radiation) Imaging Practices
WIHI: Learning by Data and by Doing: Low-Cost, High-Quality Health Care in America
WIHI: Coaching’s the Thing for Primary Care Practice
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