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MedStaff Update: April 2013
Stanford Brings Total Artificial Heart to Transplant Program
In keeping with its pioneering tradition of innovation in cardiovascular and transplant medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics will become the first hospital in the Bay Area to offer a total artificial heart (TAH) to patients with end stage heart failure beginning early this summer.
Hospital Rolls Out Discharge Phone Call Program House-Wide
In a pilot project on D2 and G2S, nurses began calling to check in on patients within 72 hours of discharge. This simple continuation of care intervention had profound results—patient satisfaction scores on both units skyrocketed from the 37th to the 98th percentile. Building on that success, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) has developed a plan to implement the program house-wide.
Preventing, Predicting and Alleviating Pain at Stanford
Pain management remains a subjective science. One patient's seven out of ten is another patient's three on the pain scale. Researchers at Stanford are moving closer to developing an objective way to measure pain and understanding the individual differences in pain. Their goal? To develop personalized pain treatment that targets the genetic differences in each of us.
Patient Safety Lessons Learned: The Case of the Serious Medication Overdose
By: Steve Chinn, DPM, MS, MBA, Director, Accreditation and Regulatory Affairs
When physicians call out orders without making eye contact or gaining consent from the person receiving the order, patient errors can occur. Learn how one physician's hurried verbal medication order and a nurse's timidness in questioning the incorrect order, caused a patient to receive ten times the recommended dosage of a particular medication.
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Changing How Pain Is Assessed and Treated
Pain exacts an astoundingly high price from society in economic loss and diminished lives. More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, at a cost of up to $635 billion annually in medical treatment and lost productivity. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) found that when pain becomes chronic, it is no longer merely a symptom but a disease in itself, one that fundamentally alters the entire nervous system with significant psychological and cognitive correlates. Sadly, as a nation, we are failing to respond adequately to this pressing and widespread public health problem. What are we doing at Stanford to address this tremendous societal problem?