Hospital Bed Articles & Analysis: Older
16 articles found
Central Maine Medical Center is a 250-bed hospital in Lewiston, Maine with a busy electrophysiology (EP) lab. The hospital is a Premier member, a part of the Yankee Alliance purchasing network and has been using reprocessed EP devices for several years. ...
Tab Lassiter once spent eight months resting anxiously in a hospital bed with cardiomyopathy, a condition that can lead to heart failure. Over a six-year period prior to his stay at Duke University Hospital, he experienced bouts with pneumonia, congestive heart failure, the failure of several heart pumping devices, two strokes and daily shortness ...
Queen Mary Hospital (QMH), situated at the south western side of the Hong Kong Island is an acute regional hospital with about 1,700 beds. ...
As the relentless waves of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to wash over the world, much attention has been focused on the idea of hospital bed shortages. As cases strain hospital systems everywhere, the most-commonly reported metrics one hears have to do with beds; how many ICU beds left, how many emergency ...
On trend with the “cancel everything” hashtag, regions ramped down or suspended “elective” or non-emergent surgeries in efforts to reduce transmission, and preserve personal protective equipment, hospital bed capacity and key equipment. Operating at a reduced capacity, the American College of Surgeons released a guide to patient triage for ...
The abstract concludes that emergency department adoption of ECG monitoring provided an alternative to hospital admission while providing a diagnosis 3 times sooner than average and dramatically reducing return visits to the emergency department. ...
During the Covid-19 emergency, from March to April 2020, up to 9 departments dedicated to the care of patients affected by corona were set up in the Aosta Valley regional hospital and the resuscitation places were tripled The staff of the Aosta Valley Hospital consists of more than 2,100 employees with 310 doctors and 700 nurses 127 beds ...
Medical care delivery has gone through remarkable changes in the previous decade. In the last five to 10 years, medical services’ digitization has quickened dramatically because of inventive government strategies, changes in customer inclinations, a flood of funding, a developing number of computerized wellbeing business people, and proceeded with ventures by industry occupants. The ...
The company is also working with 25+ hospitals and powering 1900+ Covid-19 beds. “We have so far monitored 7000+ covid-19 patients in hospitals, leading to 30+ patients getting timely transfer to ICUs. Due to the rise in demand, the company surpassed the last financial year’s sales in just one quarter this year.” Among ...
Having an ample number of “on demand” isolation environments is crucial during a pandemic or event that greatly increases demand for hospital beds. Depending on the type of sickness a patient has, it is important to be able to quickly create a clean negative or positive pressure environment. ...
The San Diego VA Hospital has 304 hospital beds; 510,000 annual outpatient visits; 54,000 enrolled patients;7000 admissions; and 2000 full-time employees. ...
Especially for severe patients, neonates and infants with surgery, coma, unconsciousness and disability, wristband should be worn as the basis for effective checking. And hospitalization number is the only sign that patients do not repeat! In fact, medical wristband and other entertainment wristbands have certain differences. ...
This study assessed emissions from three health institutions in Germany – a hospital, a psychiatric hospital, and a nursing home - and found their contribution was low compared to that from households. ...
(a) the bed occupancy ratio which represents the hospital capacity utilisation; (b) the average length of stay; (c) the total number of beds). The hospitals are represented by means of a simple model whereby they use inputs (labour and capital) to produce outputs (healthcare services). ...
Memorial-Hermann in Northwest Houston is a 1,200 bed medical center. First constructed in the 1970s, it has been upgraded extensively and now includes a mix of more than a dozen structures, both old and new. The Pigeon Problem The hospital campus encompasses more than four city blocks with structures ranging from one to five stories. ...
In 2006, the annual American Hospital Association survey on hospitals reported there were nearly 950,000 hospital beds in the U.S.1 In Canada in 2005 the number of acute care hospital beds was approximately 103,000.2 Combined, there are over 1 million hospital ...