Alarm Management/The EEMUA Guidelines in Practice

Monitoring practice and alarm technology in anaesthesiology

In this article we examine how one of the most pervasive technological implementations in the healthcare domain--the alarm system--is used in anaesthesiology as part of patient monitoring. The utility and appropriateness of alarms in healthcare domains have been widely addressed in the literature. However, we argue that we still know little about the practical use of alarm systems in actual hea...

Practice Guidelines in Oncology

NHG Clinical Practice Guidelines NHG Clinical Practice Guidelines

PRACTICE GUIDELINES Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain

OPTIONS 1. Control of burn pain must begin upon initiation of medical care. Once intravenous access is gained and resuscitation started, intravenous opioids should be administered. The opioid dose occasionally exceeds the standard weight-based recommendations and is necessary to achieve adequate pain control. 2. Opioids, along with other adjuncts such as benzodiazepines, are used to control bac...

Clinical Practice Guidelines EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson’s disease

This Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) has been developed to assist physicians and other healthcare providers in the diagnosis and management of patients with Wilson’s disease. The goal is to describe a number of generally accepted approaches for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Wilson’s disease. Recommendations are based on a systematic literature review in the Medline (PubMed version),...