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AAAI 2008 Fall Symposia Reports
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the 2008 Fall Symposium Series, held Friday through Sunday,...
AI Magazine, 07/01/09 by Beal, Jacob; Bello, Paul; Cassimatis, Nicholas; Coen, Michael; Cohen, Paul R; Davis, Alex; Maybury, Mark; Samsonovich, Alexei; Shilliday, Andrew; Skubic, Marjorie; Taylor, Joshua; Walter, Sharon; Winston, Patrick; Woolf, Beverly Park · More from publication -
Management of High-Grade Splenic Injury in Children
Using the National Trauma Databank, we identified 413 children (age ⤠14 years) who sustained high-grade blunt splenic injury...
American Surgeon, The, 10/01/08 by Jim, Jeffrey; Leonardi, Michael J; Cryer, H Gill; Hiatt, Jonathan R; Shew, Stephen; Cohen, Marilyn; Tillou, Areti · More from publication -
Beware a fatal flaw
NEEDLELESS I.V. ACCESS A child was receiving medication via a nebulizer to treat asthma when the oxygen tubing became disconnected from the...
Nursing, 12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
Tips to avoid double dosing
When more than one practitioner administers drugs to a patient during a shift, the risk of double dosing increases. For example, one nurse might...
Nursing, 12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
Default could lie with de pump
ERRONEOUS PCA A prescriber ordered patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for a postoperative patient using the opioid fentanyl according to facility...
Nursing, 12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
"Take my word"
PATIENT INSTRUCTIONS People who take the anticoagulant warfarin may have outpatient blood work, then get instructions to adjust the dosage after...
Nursing, 12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
"Morph"ing into trouble
OPIOID SWAP An ED physician ordered morphine, 10 mg I.M., for a 69-year-old patient with a chest injury who was being discharged. The narcotics...
Nursing, 11/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
Potpourri of problems
WRONG PATIENT The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requires you to use at least two patient identifiers (other...
Nursing, 11/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
Not so fast!
IMMEDIATE-RELEASE NIFEDIPINE A pharmacist noticed that the ED physician had ordered "Procardia, 10 mg P.O. every 2 hours p.r.n. hypertension" after...
Nursing, 11/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication -
Subtle sound, big difference
TELEPHONE ORDER A hospital pharmacist received an order for a "fentanyl drip, 5,200 meg per hour," which a nurse had just transcribed after taking...
Nursing, 10/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication
