Standardized infection control for cardiovascular surgery

1018Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection Following Cardiovascular Surgery

Surgery Graham Snyder, MD, SM; David S. Yassa, MD; Chloe W Eng, BS; Linda M Baldini, RN; Kamal Khabbaz, MD; Sharon B Wright, MD, MPH; Division of Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology, Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, M...

Developing a Standardized Medical Speech Recognition Database for Reconstructive Hand Surgery

Fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (DSS). While electronic health records (EHRs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. Speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...

Approaches for Covid-19 infection control in the workplaces

Introduction: Due to the spread of the new coronavirus around the world, workplaces are not safe against this disease. Different guidelines have been promoted by international organizations regarding high-risk jobs and the necessity of implementing health rules in the workplaces. According to the considerable number of incidence of this disease in our country, the aim of this review article is ...

Narcotic anesthesia for cardiovascular surgery.

Quality control in cardiovascular surgery: a new paradigm.

The objective is to write a literature review of the relevant information related to quality control in cardiovascular surgery. The authors have studied several parameters to allow quality control in cardiovascular surgery: 1. Construction of a database as complete as possible to the similar ones of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery; 2. To...