You did your part and got your patient through surgery with flying colors. But, uh-oh, the ride your patient was expecting to get home is a no-show. What should your ASC do?
AMRI Blog
Frequently Missed Practice Questions (Part 1)
If you follow us on Facebook, you know that we frequently post practice questions and invite our community to test their knowledge. AMRI fans do well on most of the questions; however, there are some that they miss. These questions are a great learning tool to help you prepare for your recertification. Below are the three frequently missed questions with the correct answers and a brief explanation why.
3 Time-Saving Tips to Improve Room Turnover in Your OR
How much more profitable would your ASC be if you could add just one additional procedure per OR each day? According to Outpatient Surgery magazine, you can easily make your ORs more available, without compromising patient safety, by making a few tweaks to your room turnover process.
ACLS Case Study Guide (Part 1)
This in-depth ACLS Case Study Guide delivers multiple challenging scenarios that can sometimes stump many ACLS certification students such as incessant VFib, 3rd degree AV block, recurrent VFib and tachypnea. Read each case, then test your knowledge of what to do using the quizzes and discussion that follow.
3 Creative Ways to Get Every Team Member to Participate in Timeout
Phoning in your participation in a surgical timeout is a surefire way to put your patients’ health and safety at risk. Yet, in the hectic moments before surgery begins, some surgical teams admit it’s not uncommon to settle for nods instead of mindful verbal confirmation of patient identity, procedure and surgical site.