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Plan, Don't Panic
October 28, 2009 6:27 AM by Scott Warner
The other week I watched a show on the Discovery channel in disbelief. Called Pig Bomb , it described hoards of feral pigs roaming the Southeast. Locals may have cross-bred the American boar with its ill-tempered cousin, the Eurasian wild boar, for hunting Read More...
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Misfiling
August 28, 2009 6:06 AM by Scott Warner
If your lab uses a card file to track patient blood bank history, some cards are misfiled. Depending on where in the file they are placed, they may be good as gone. A blood banker won't be able to compare blood types or know that the patient has a positive Read More...
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Safe Choices
July 8, 2009 5:58 AM by Scott Warner
The other day at a meeting about patient identification the subject of redrawing an improperly identified patient for the blood bank came up. One person thought this a terrible idea and said, "This is all about saving the patient a stick." "Actually," Read More...
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A Thousand Words
May 18, 2009 6:21 AM by Scott Warner
Incident reports are commonplace in healthcare, meant to record the facts. But do they? I've written about write-ups, including their presentation as conclusions and use as political bats. If you've worked in healthcare any length of time, you're well Read More...
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The Speed of Information
May 12, 2008 2:02 PM by Scott Warner
My old boss used to say, "Any delay is too long." He was talking about programming iterate functions on a computer, but it's true for many things. We all hate to wait. But what are we waiting for? In a healthcare system, the speed of information is crucial Read More...
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Fire Plans
March 11, 2008 11:30 AM by Scott Warner
The Hindu reports a fire at Railway Hospital in Perambur , the fourth largest city in India, that began from a spark generated by a window air conditioner. There were no casualties, although the laboratory runs parallel to the hospital's children's wing. Read More...
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