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Re: [Phys-L] teaching credentials +- qualifications+- administration



John is here reporting on the role of the "circulating nurse" who counts swabs and instruments in and out, checks hygiene and all the other "Check-list" items which have been a feature of airline/military flight crew life for a good while, and which are now contributing to significant improvements in operating room outcomes.
I found it salutary that Consumer Reports magazine recently analyzed morbidity/mortality rates in a considerable sample of hospitals for which uniform data were available for a range of operations in heart valves, arteries, joint replacements etc. Their results at the county hospital level were particularly enlightening!

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

On 10/21/2013 11:05 AM, John Clement wrote [in small part]:
...MDs are ticked off when a nurse is empowered to tell
them they can not do an operation until they have been observed to properly
wash their hands. That is now happening and it reduces the rate of
infection to almost zero. Of course this is being done within the medical
community, but it was sparked by information on infection rates in
hospitals. /snip/
John M. Clement
Houston, TX