IL patient dies after an alleged operating room fire
Hospital Safety Connection, September 23, 2009
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Connection!
- Ignition sources (e.g., electrocautery pens)
- Fuels (e.g., drapes or alcohol prepping solutions)
- Oxidizers (e.g., oxygen-enriched atmospheres)
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Connection!
Related Products
-
Emergency Management Coordinator's Handbook for Hospitals
This book and CD-ROM is an affordable, easy-to-read reference that outlines the fundamental processes of emergency...
-
Physical Environment Online
Achieve Joint Commission compliance in the three critical areas of environment of care, life safety, and emergency...
-
Environment of Care Compliance Manual, Fourth Edition
This valuable resource not only updates the standards, it also offers tips and advice to stay compliant with new and...
-
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
Learn Life Safety Code tips and interpretations for healthcare facilities with this in-depth monthly resource.
-
Hospital Safety Center
Improve compliance with hospital safety standards from The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulators with this...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- HealthDataInsights posts new issues for medical necessity claims
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- Q&A: Incidental disclosures and patient privacy
- New FAQ posted on storing laryngoscope blades
- Sneak Peek: Effort underway to establish caseload benchmarks
- Tip: Perform your own internal investigation prior to government audit
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- HIPAA 5010 deadline extended, but threat remains, says AMA
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- E-mailed
-
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- Tip: Correctly code bilateral pain management procedures
- 2012 CPT code changes for ASCs: Shoulder and knee scopes and pain management
- Code changes should help ease the pain when coding for facet joint injections
- COT basics to best
- Documentation and coding for toxic metabolic encephalopathy
- Searched