The Patient Survival Guide

Author : Maryanne McGuckin, Dr., Sc., Ed.
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617051187
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patient Survival Guide written by Maryanne McGuckin, Dr., Sc., Ed. and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Health Category The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million people developed healthcare acquired infections in 2010. Since most people spend only a small part of their lives in healthcare facilities, this guidebook also tells readers how to avoid picking up serious infections in day care centers, schools, business offices, and other common locations. Unlike other books, which focus on how to change the hospital systems, The Patient Survival Guide focuses on empowering you with the knowledge and techniques to ensure a safer healthcare experience. The Patient Survival Guide: Inspires you to be a your own advocate Describes in vivid detail how your preparation and informed vigilance can significantly reduce the chances of harm and death to your loved one in a hospital Provides specific, practical, and outside-the-box strategies for anticipating and preventing errors, with chapters devoted to each of the most common mistakes and mishaps Provides checklists for patients to use upon admission to healthcare facilities

Author : David Sherer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781630061630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Survival Guide written by David Sherer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital Survival Guide: The Patient Handbook to Getting Better and Getting Out is the essential patient handbook to ensure that you and your family emerge from hospital visits healthier than before checking-in and without having to endure excessive stays, pain or indignities. Includes practical tips, warnings and surprising information you doctor might not tell you, such as the fact that July, when the new interns start, is the most dangerous month to have a procedure done at a teaching hospital; EMLA anesthetic cream can be requested to be used on children's skin, allowing for less painful I.V. starts; and washing off all iodine-based antiseptics thoroughly after surgery can prevent chemical burns. Proven tips for reducing hospital bills are also presented.

Author : Gail Boyer Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975898727
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulmonary Hypertension written by Gail Boyer Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Edition, 2013 Revision. Pulmonary Hypertension: A Patient's Survival Guide serves as a soup-to-nuts resource book covering many of the questions patients and their loved ones might have about living with pulmonary hypertension. The book (350+ pages) includes topics like the mechanics of PH, the latest treatments, patient care and lifestyle issues.

Author : Grace A. Lin
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780781743655
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington Manual Outpatient Medicine Survival Guide written by Grace A. Lin and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Manual® Outpatient Medicine Survival Guide covers the most common diseases and situations encountered in an outpatient clinic and includes sections on key history and physical examination findings, red flags to look for, and advice on what to tell the patient.

Author : Eyal Herzog
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 1451177461
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide written by Eyal Herzog and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is geared toward cardiologists, trainees, and housestaff --anyone who rotates or practices in the CCU--who must grasp the subtleties when treating patients in a cardiac care unit. It is organized in a way to help you understand the simplified pathophysiology of the disease, the diagnosis modalities, the initial critical care management in the CCU, the clinical care in a step down unit and plan for discharge therapy. Dr. Herzog has developed unified pathways for the management of patients presenting with acute chest pain or its equivalent, acute heart failure, atrial fibrillation and flutter, syncope, cardiac arrest, hypertension and hyperglycemia. Algorithms and pathways for management are provided in each chapter for easy implementation in any health care system. In addition, because specialized units are frightening to the patients and their families, there is a section in each chapter on what the patient and family need to know, that encompasses a capsulated explanation of the condition and treatment management. A companion website accompanies the text that includes fully searchable text and patient information.

Author : Gail Boyer Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulmonary Hypertension written by Gail Boyer Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail Boyer Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975898703
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulmonary Hypertension written by Gail Boyer Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gretchen LeFever Watson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102102
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Patient Safety Survival Guide written by Gretchen LeFever Watson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates. It takes a village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause millions of deaths and sickness in our nation’s hospitals and care facilities. Although most of these deaths are due to human and system errors—not faulty medical decisions or diagnoses—this annual death toll—as well as the millions of additional incidents of survivable patient harm—could be cut in half through consistent use of simple and nearly cost-free safety behaviors. In Your Patient Safety Survival Guide, Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of issues, including healthcare’s role in the overuse of opiate painkillers and its related heroin epidemic. Watson’s call for a more sensible societal response to medical and human error in hospitals promotes a timely and full disclosure of all mistakes—an approach that has been proven to accelerate the emotional recovery of everyone affected by patient safety events while also reducing the financial burden on hospitals, providers, and patients. Readers will learn how to: • Change behavior to catch medical errors before they result in illness or death. • Prevent the spread of dangerous infections in hospitals and other care facilities. • Leverage the power of basic safety/hygiene habits. • Eliminate mistakes during surgery and other invasive procedures. • Avoid medication errors and the overuse of opiates • Raise awareness and inspire civic action in their communities.

Author : Edward H. Morgan, Jr.
Publisher : Beaufort Books
ISBN 13 : 9780825309885
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patient's Survival Guide written by Edward H. Morgan, Jr. and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the US medical environment where medical mistakes, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment have become the third leading cause of death, leadership consultant and long-time charity CEO Edward Morgan argues that protecting yourself with medical wisdom can add 10-15 years to your life. We're a nation on meds, where 60% of adults are now diagnosed with some chronic condition. We're listening to unwise advice and becoming permanent patients. Longevity is declining in America, even though medical costs in the US are twice that of other developed nations. Don't get caught in medical misadventures that escalate into permanent conditions, screenings that cascade into fear-driven decisions, prescriptions that simply suppress symptoms, or worst of all, end up dying in an ICU in the vain hope for a few more days. Smart is not the same as wise. Medical wisdom and discernment will extend your life. Taking today's aggressive, profit-driven advice will quite possibly shorten it. Living to see your grandchildren grow up is your responsibility, not your doctor's. This is a must read for anyone already feeling like a patient for life.

Author : Charlotte Libov
Publisher : Humanix Books
ISBN 13 : 1630060143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cancer Survival Guide written by Charlotte Libov and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cancer Survival Guide will lead you through what will undoubtedly be the most crucial healthcare decisions you'll ever make. This definite manual to understanding, managing and preventing the diseases offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information. Rely on the Cancer Survival Guide to address every facet of this illness that not only affects the sufferer's physical well-being and lifestyle, but one whose reverberations are also felt emotionally and spiritually, impacting family, friends, and caregivers alike.