Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 12 announced the recall by Premier Pharmacy Labs (Weeki Wachee, Florida) of certain lots of sterile injectable products because of a potential lack of sterility assurance. The products include morphine sulfate (2 mg/mL and 3 mg/mL), hydromorphone HCL 1 mg/mL,…
Editor's Note Video observation was not be as effective as evaluating live performance in promoting OR teamwork in this study. A total of 1,410 briefs were analyzedโ325 live observations and 1,085 videosโand 1,398 debriefs were evaluatedโ166 live and 1,232 video. For briefs, there was greater compliance with live observation than…
Editor's Note The Joint Commission on April 11 released the top 5 requirements identified most frequently as โnot compliantโ during surveys and reviews that took place from January 1 to December 31, 2017. New to the table is data on Perinatal Care Certification. The top 5 for Hospital Accreditation are:…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 13 announced the recall by Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts) of certain lots of its Acrodose Plus and PL Systems because the company has received reports of low pH readings for platelets stored in CLX HP bags. In some instances the drop…
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Editor's Note In this study, 30-day complications rates increased after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned against the use of power morcellation in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign gynecologic indications. In a cohort of 75,487 women who had hysterectomies, statistically and clinically significant increases in major (1.9% to 2.4%)…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 10 notified healthcare facilities that Custom Ultrasonics (Ivyland, Pennsylvania) has completed validation testing of the System 83 Plus (ie, System 83 Plus, System 83 Plus 2, and System 83 Plus 9) automated endoscope reprocessors (AERs) with specific duodenoscopes. The FDA…
Editor's Note Spinal anesthesia was associated with lower mortality and morbidity rates after hip fracture repair than general anesthesia in this study that will be presented Saturday April 19 at the 2018 World Congress on Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine in New York City. In this analysis of 2,591 patients,…
Editor's Note The ECRI Institute and the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety (ie, a multistakeholder collaborative convened and operated by the ECRI Institute) announced April 10 the new INsightยฎ Culture of Safety Assessment for Health IT Companies. The new program allows health IT developers to assess safety culture with…
Editor's Note The use of nonopioid analgesics intraoperatively was one of eight factors found to predict postoperative pain in the first 24 hours after spine surgery, finds this study that will be presented Saturday April 21 at the 2018 World Congress on Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine in New York…