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The Boston Globe
When the bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon four years ago, many rushed to aid the injured — kindness on display amid the horror.
Now, a project at Gillette Stadium aims to boost the life-saving skills of future good Samaritans. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital are testing ways to teach laypeople how to properly apply a tourniquet. Their work contributes to a nationwide campaign, called Stop the Bleed, which seeks to empower untrained bystanders to prevent an injured person from dying of blood loss.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital via Medical Xpress
Hospitalization in an intensive care unit can be a frightening and traumatizing experience for patients. Although engaging the patient and improving communication among the clinical team can positively impact care and the patient experience, the ICU environment can be a challenging place to engage patients. In new research, led by Brigham and Women's Hospital, researchers tested a structured and technology-centered program that was focused on team communication and patient engagement.
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BuzzFeed
There's a baby boy on a stretcher in a children's hospital emergency room. His mother is standing nearby, begging the doctors to do something, as her baby lies there. He is drooling and shaking; his diaper is soaked; he is making a disturbing snoring noise. An EMT comes in and says, "Doctor, this is a 1-year-old male found by the mother at home, having a seizure. The seizure's been lasting about seven minutes. Blood glucose on scene was 90." The EMT leaves.
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University at Buffalo via Medical Xpress
A physiological process used commonly by mammals like seals and dolphins inspired the potentially lifesaving method University at Buffalo researchers successfully tested to raise blood pressure in a simulation of trauma victims experiencing blood loss. The pre-hospital intervention is simple — place a bag of ice on the victim's forehead, eyes and cheeks. In a small study, this method was shown to increase and maintain a person's blood pressure during simulated blood loss.
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Medical News Today
Medical school and clinical training is rigorous in ways that may be difficult for other professionals to comprehend. Self-care can easily slip to the bottom of the list of priorities in the face of the daily challenges of patient care and admin.
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U.S. News & World Report
The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for decades, its safety and ethics largely unquestioned and its existence unknown to those most affected: people undergoing surgery.
But over the past two years, the issue of overlapping surgery — in which a doctor operates on two patients in different rooms during the same time period — has ignited an impassioned debate in the medical community, attracted scrutiny by the powerful Senate Finance Committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, and prompted some hospitals, including the University of Virginia's, to circumscribe the practice.
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Dotmed
Stanford Medicine recently started taking its neurosurgeons, residents and patients on virtual reality trips inside the brain.
That’s made possible with Surgical Theater’s new software system, which creates a 3-D model out of the patients’ MR, CT and angiogram images. The user dons a headset, and an instructor who shows up as an avatar in a white coat leads them through the brain.
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PBS Newshour
Faced with the uncomfortable task of discussing death, doctors often avoid the topic. Only 17 percent of Medicare patients surveyed in a 2015 Kaiser Family Foundation study said they had discussed end-of-life care — though most wanted to do so. Since that study, Medicare has begun reimbursing providers for having these conversations. Yet still, just a fraction of Medicare recipients at the end of life have those talks with their doctors.
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Patient Engagement HIT
Patient experience and patient satisfaction are healthcare terms that are too often used interchangeably. Although they appear to be synonymous – a patient’s hospital experience should be satisfactory, one might assume – they are in fact separate terms that have entirely different meanings to healthcare professionals.
The difference between patient experience and patient satisfaction has implications for quality improvement in healthcare.
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U.S. News & World Report
Before college, Brittany Sherwood thought she would study a pre-med major, go to medical school and become a doctor.
"During my first semester of college I was planning on doing pre-med, but I got a 'B' in Bio 101, and I started doing a little research and realized there was a different way to end up in a similar place," says the now-27-year-old who went to Florida State University to earn her bachelor's degree.
The Florida native began considering a career in nursing instead of work as a physician.
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