Improving acute medical management: Junior Doctor Emergency Prescription Cards

Improving acute medical management: Junior Doctor Emergency Prescription Cards

Doctors commencing Foundation Year (FY) training face many stresses and challenges. FY doctors are often the first point of contact for acutely unwell and deteriorating patients. Trust guidelines are used to aid acute medical management. Accessing guidelines is often fraught with barriers. Evidence suggests aide-memoire cards can provide easier access to guidelines and management pathways. We a...

Improving junior doctor handover between jobs

Patient safety is one of the most important issues in healthcare. In recent years there has been much focus on "Black Wednesday"; the day that Foundation doctors start their first jobs. Great efforts have been made to ensure that patient safety on this day has improved, with the main example being that newly qualified doctors now use some of their free time between medical school and starting t...

Repeat prescription cards.

Improving emergency medical service in acute stroke care in Taiwan.

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 22 No 1 March 2013 Thrombolysis with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) within 3 or 4.5 hours of symptom onset is the only currently proved treatment for acute ischemic stroke and has been shown to be highly costeffective, and improve long-term functional dependence. However, only 2%-5% of acute ischemic patients can receive the treatment. Delayed p...

A telemedicine support for improving medical emergency management

In this paper, we introduce a telemedicine architecture for supporting emergency patient stabilization and patient transportation to a fully equipped health care center. In particular, we focus on the description of a set of mobile apps, designed for supporting data recording and transmission during patient transportation by ambulance. Some of the apps are interfaced to the monitoring devices i...