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California Hospitals Fined for Safety Violations

California's Department of Public Health has fined 18 hospitals $25,000 per incident for failing to comply with state laws overseeing patient safety...

What Happens When Opioids Backfire?

It's a rare and challenging pain management paradox: opioid drugs, designed to relieve acute and chronic pain, can have the reverse effect in some p...

Safer, Synthetic Heparin Developed

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have built the largest dose of synthetic heparin ever created in a lab. The developme...


	Archive > December 2004	Vol. V, No. 12

FEATURES

2004 Safety Sharps Challenge

We put the latest safety sharps to the test. Find out what our panel of experts had to say.

How to Start an IV Without Pain

Step inside the country's first needle-free hospital to find out how jet injectors have eliminated the pain and anxiety of starting an intravenous line.

Lessons Learned from 3 OR Fires

How quick thinking prevented three fires from escalating into disaster.

What's New for Anesthesia and Pain Management

A look at the latest products on display at the American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting.

Sorting Out Your Latex- and Powder-free Glove Options

What one facility learned through a glove trial that ended where it began.

Thinking of Buying...Patient-handling Equipment

Transferring and transporting patients doesn't have to be a pain in the back. These devices can help.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Safety and Getting Sued

This Just In

Letters & Emails

Ideas that Work

Make Patients Comfortable After Nasal Surgery

Staffing

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Legal Update

Autonomy — Are Doctors Gaining or Losing?

Coding & Billing

Accounts Receivable 101

Safety

Preventing Patient Falls

Products

Cataract Knives and CJD: Is There a Connection?

My Turn

My Outpatient Fictionary

December 2004