Peripheral Norepinephrine Shows Low Complication Rates for Sepsis Outside the ICU
A retrospective observational study of 55 patients in Sweden found that norepinephrine given through peripheral intravenous catheters at an intermediate ...
Tag: Patient Safety
Open Biopsy of Children’s Liver Tumors Triggered Severe Bleeding in Three Cases, Surgeons Warn
Three children transferred to a German liver center after severe bleeding during open biopsy of liver tumors prompted the authors ...
Tabletop Simulation Exposes Timing Gaps in Hospital Neonatal Abduction Procedure
A tabletop translational simulation at an Italian children's hospital found that all five plausible escape routes were completed before the ...
Europe’s fragmented medical device rules fuel calls for a central EU agency
A new analysis argues that Europe's decentralised medical device regulatory system suffers from fragmentation, inconsistent evidence standards and declining innovation, ...
Virtual Sitters Cut Hospital Falls, but Evidence Remains Uneven, Review Finds
A scoping review of 25 studies finds electronic sitters reduced hospital falls by up to 79 percent, though injury reductions ...
AI in ambulances shows promise but remains stuck at pilot stage
A narrative review finds AI applications across emergency medical services show promising results but remain largely confined to pilot projects.
Interviews Map What Mental Health Patients and Emergency Staff Want From Care
A qualitative study of 29 patients and 60 providers found that interpersonal care was what mental health patients valued most ...
Regional Audit Finds Uneven Infection Prevention Standards in Office-Based Surgery
A regional audit of 40 office-based surgery rooms in 15 centres found wide variation in ventilation, hand hygiene protocols, training, ...
Simulation testing before a new emergency department opening uncovered 277 latent safety threats
A single-site methodology paper describes a systems-focused simulation process that identified, classified and prioritized 277 latent safety threats across four ...
AI matches expert severity ratings in half of hospital adverse event reports
A single-center study found a large language model exactly matched adjudicated expert severity classifications in 49 percent of 286 hospital ...
AI reasoning models boost diagnostic accuracy but raise safety concerns
A Nature Communications study finds large reasoning models make more accurate primary diagnoses than standard language models but produce over ...
Surgeons Give ChatGPT Near-Perfect Marks for Knee Replacement Patient Answers
Three arthroplasty surgeons rated ChatGPT answers to 70 knee replacement patient questions near-perfect, including unanimous maximum scores for all 20 ...
Nail Polish Still Has No Place in Clinical Care, Review Concludes
A narrative review concludes that recent laboratory studies and implementation problems do not justify allowing nail polish in clinical care.
Interprofessional Simulation Reveals How Procedural Teams Manage Iatrogenic Complications
A qualitative simulation study of respiratory registrars and endoscopy nurses identified three themes—experience, distributed team work and environmental constraints—that shape ...
Experts Build Consensus Framework to Prevent Blood Clots in Lung Cancer Patients
A two-round Delphi study with 15 experts in Nanjing produced a 34-indicator framework for organizing hospital-based venous thromboembolism prevention in ...
Final-Year Dentistry Students in UAE Show Gaps in Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Knowledge
A survey of 152 final-year dentistry students at Ajman University found positive attitudes toward pharmacovigilance but limited knowledge and low ...
New framework asks when medical AI updates require fresh clinical evidence
A new Perspective proposes VERSION-AI, a two-axis framework for deciding when updates to medical AI systems require renewed clinical evidence.
Emergency physicians in Taiwan describe how they weave quality domains into teaching feedback
A qualitative study of 14 Taiwanese emergency physicians found that patient-centeredness and safety dominated their self-described teaching feedback, while equity ...
New Framework Demands Proof That Recalled Medical Devices Are Actually Closed
A conceptual governance framework proposes auditable evidence, a maturity model and six metrics to verify that every affected medical device ...
Anesthesiologists propose risk-based rules for safe use of AI in surgery
An editorial in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science proposes a risk-based framework for deploying large language models in perioperative anesthesia, reserving ...
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