PURPOSE Safety precautions for the use of U-500 insulin in a hospital setting are described. SUMMARY St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, a 500-bed community hospital, formed a committee to develop a U-500 insulin policy to address the unique considerations required for this drug at all steps of the medication management process. An order set was designed by the multidisciplinary team to standa...

In recent years, robots have made substantial in-roads in the medical field and are gradually finding their way into clinical practice. Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci® surgical robot broke ground in 1998 by performing the first tele-robotic surgery to repair a heart valve (Salisbury, 1998; Guthart & Salisbury, 2000). Accuray’s CyberKnife radiotherapy robot began treating head, neck and upper spi...

Background: The publicchr('39')s understanding of radiation and protection of radiation harm is not high. Therefore, it is meaningful to know the radiation safety literacy level in terms of health care. This study developed a measurement tool that can help to identify the actual condition of radiation safety literacy and conducted the statistical assessment of the developed tool. Materials and ...

Compliance with the principles of occupational safety and health is one preconditions for avoiding emergency events. Without a doubt, this underlying duties every employer or operator waste recycling centers. The risk to resulting from an orphan source ionizing radiation in form scrap metal quite high can affect significant number people. As part precautions relating employees, must analyze ris...

90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan is a novel radioimmunotherapeutic agent recently approved for the treatment of relapsed or refractory low-grade, follicular, or CD20+ transformed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). (90)Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan consists of a murine monoclonal antibody covalently attached to a metal chelator, which stably chelates (111)In for imaging and (90)Y for therapy. Both health care worke...

BACKGROUND Achieving and sustaining high levels of health care worker (HCW) compliance with contact isolation precautions is challenging. The aim of this study was to determine HCW work system barriers to and facilitators of adherence to contact isolation for patients with suspected or confirmed Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) using a human factors and systems engineering approach. METH...