I.6 Stigma Around Palliative Care: Why It Exists and How to Manage It

How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It

Making Innovation Work challenges prevailing misconceptions and lays out the tools and processes necessary for an organization to harness, manage, and execute innovation successfully and profitably. It provides a start-to-finish process for defining innovation strategy, integrating innovation and business strategy, balancing creativity and value capture, weaving innovation into the fabric of th...

Hyponatremia: why it matters, how it presents, how we can manage it.

Hyponatremia is a common electrolyte disorder among hospitalized patients and has been associated with increased mortality. Most patients are asymptomatic, but many do present with symptoms, usually of a generalized neurologic nature. Based-on medical history, physical examination (including volume-status assessment), and laboratory tests, patients can be classified as having either hypervolemi...

Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

Wound Exudate: What It Is and How to Manage It

In normal wound healing, exudate volume will decrease as healing occurs. However, exudate can cause problems if the quantity means that it is difficult to prevent dressing leakage or if there is swelling (oedema). Dressing leakage (known as strike-through) may increase the risk of infection since dressings that are moist or wet on the outside are more attractive to microbes and more easily pene...

Palliative care by the surgeon: how to do it.

Geoffrey P Dunn, MD, FACS: This is a symposium, Palliative Care by the Surgeon: How To Do It. This symposium is actually the continuation of an idea that has been evolving in the course of several consecutive symposia held by the American College of Surgeons. The shot across the bow for this ongoing discussion and for this symposium came back in 1997 when the College held a general symposium on...