Right patient, right time, right pharmacist: the time for clinical prioritisation tools?

Airway Inflammatory Biomarker: Could It Tailor the Right Medications for the Right Asthmatic Patient?

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, in which asthmatic patients present with different clinical phenotypes, variable endotypes, and different response to asthma medicines. Thus, we are faced with an asthma paradox; asthma is diagnosed subjectively by clinical history and treated with biologically active drugs. To solve this paradox, we need objective airway biomarkers to tailor the proper medica...

Right Care for the Right Patient Each and Every Time

PURPOSE To implement a biometric patient identification system in the field of radiation oncology. MATERIALS AND METHODS A biometric system using palm vein scanning technology has been implemented to ensure the delivery of treatment to the correct patient each and every time. By interfacing a palm vein biometrics system (PVBS) (PatientSecure®, Imprivata, Lexington, Massachusetts) with the rad...

The right prevention and treatment for the right patient at the right time

Prehospital intubation: the right tools in the right hands at the right time.

David Lockey, FRCA, FIMC, RCS (Ed)† In this issue of the journal, Cobas et al. report that paramedics in the metropolitan area of Miami, Florida, had problems in 31% of all intubation attempts on trauma patients. It is highly likely that there are similar results in other emergency medical service (EMS) systems, but many may be reluctant to publish negative results. These clinicians in Miami, F...

The right treatment to the right patient at the right time.