Senior medical staff need to be included in severe asthma

Medical Staff in Need of Change

The initial Standards by the JCAH (now the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, or JCAHO) required accredited hospitals to have organized medical staffs. The medical staff was responsible for overseeing the clinical practice and quality of care provided by physicians at the hospital. While recognizing the ultimate responsibility for patient care in a hospital is vested...

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

Should AED Devices Be Routinely Included in Wilderness Medical Kits?

Assessing the Need to Pay Attention to the Ethical Considerations of Medical Staff in Dealing with Patients with Covid-19

In recent decades, on the one hand, we have faced atmospheric phenomena and environmental changes, and on the other hand, with the emergence of new diseases called emerging diseases. Managing emerging diseases requires an ethical approach to control and care for them. Ethical problems raising from new diagnostic and therapeutic advances in medical science have increased the need to address medi...

Severe asthma treatment: need for characterising patients.

CONTEXT Asthma is readily diagnosed in most cases and usually responds to inhaled corticosteroids with or without long-acting beta agonists, theophyllines, or leukotriene-receptor antagonists, adjusted stepwise according to symptoms and lung function. However, up to 40% of adult patients with asthma remain symptomatic, and up to 5% have difficult-to-control asthma despite multiple therapies. It...