Exposure for medical staff from patients during/after 89Sr therapy

Point of care ultrasound - a way to reduce radiation exposure of patients and medical staff

Introduction Lungs ultrasonography and echocardiography is used by intensivist to provide assessments in patients with significant respiratory and cardiac diseases. Transthoracic lung ultrasound allows to detect lung aerations and consolidations, to find pneumothorax or hydrothorax, localize alveolar-interstitial edema. It is also used as a monitoring tool to detect reaeration resulting from ef...

Minimizing Staff Exposure to Antineoplastic Agents 
During Intravesical Therapy.

Exposure to chemotherapy is a daily risk for nurses in oncology infusion centers. Although significant advances have been made in developing systems to make IV administration of antineoplastic agents safer, less attention has been given to developing systems to minimize exposure risk during instillation of intravesical chemotherapy. This article describes the use of a closed system developed at...

Benefit in liver transplantation: a survey among medical staff, patients, medical students and non-medical university staff and students

BACKGROUND The allocation of any scarce health care resource, especially a lifesaving resource, can create profound ethical and legal challenges. Liver transplant allocation currently is based upon urgency, a sickest-first approach, and does not utilize capacity to benefit. While urgency can be described reasonably well with the MELD system, benefit encompasses multiple dimensions of patients' ...

Medical staff bylaws.

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges