Saving lives, saving families: continuous monitoring for patients on opioids.
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As documented in medical literature and through the mass media over the past decade, patients have been harmed or even died in their hospital beds due to undetected respiratory depression after receiving opioids for pain management. Yet, still today, some healthcare providers—following the standard of practice for their institution—miss the signs of respiratory depression. Their patients suffer and sometimes die and the patients’ families are left distraught, wondering how such a thing could happen. Again. Here are a few of their stories.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Biomedical instrumentation & technology
دوره 49 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015