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PubMed2005

Global showcase for medical innovation.

Set against a backdrop of medical industry competitiveness and growth, the forthcoming MEDICA event will present ample opportunities for international exchange of ideas on a range of healthcare technology issues, says Horst Giesen, project leader, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH.

Anniversaries and Special Events↗
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Dedicated trauma care unit: an outcome-based model.

Trauma patients, families, nurses and surgeons all benefit from the collaborative atmosphere and centralization of resources in a dedicated Trauma Care Unit. The surgeons are in-house and available 24/7 for the patients, families, nurses and all members of the healthcare team. The team focuses on the discharge planning needs of the trauma patients from the day of admission through discharge. Additionally, equipment resources are consolidated for use by the TCU surgeons and staff. Nursing staff maintain their trauma knowledge and skills through ongoing education and competency validation. A previous study showed a reduced hospital length of stay for trauma patients who remained in the Trauma Care Unit for their entire stay. An effective follow-up program, documentation tool, trauma registry and technology are effective ways to measure short and long-term patient outcomes.

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PubMed2004

The postmodern heart: war veterans' experiences of invasive cardiac technology.

BACKGROUND: The consequences of war and medical discourse have historical connections to pacemaker technology. Understanding these consequences is important because war veterans, medicine and cardiac technology have a shared history that continues into the present. The incidence of Australian war veterans needing cardiac pacemakers has increased many-fold in recent years, due to advancing age. This need was recognized by the Australian Department of Veteran Affairs and a cardiac programme was established in the veteran hospital that was the setting for this study. AIM: This paper reports on a study aimed at capturing the interest and sensitizing the practice of nurses involved in the care of war veterans and other health care consumers who have been diagnosed as requiring a cardiac pacemaker. The study sought to answer the question, 'How does the war veteran experience his body in relation to invasive cardiac technology?'. METHOD: The research was guided by the principles of interpretive interactionism, and used unstructured interviews with eight male war veterans. The data were collected in 2000. FINDINGS: Thematic and content analysis revealed five themes: emotional knowing; the medical encounter; belief in the myth of miracle; technological constraint; and the altered heart. The findings indicated that the human dimension was characterized by experiences of ambivalence, inner conflict, powerlessness and suffering. CONCLUSION: Nursing is at the interface of science and patient care, and this study contributes to nursing knowledge by focusing on a previously unresearched topic, namely embodied interactions between war veterans and invasive cardiac pacemakers. Within a highly technical area such as cardiology, nurses can still work around the technology and keep patients as their primary focus, thus promoting quality care. A humanistic rather than a technological focus locates nurses between patients and cardiac technology. In this in-between location, nurses are not an extension of cardiac technology but a valuable source of information, education, and counselling.

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PubMed2000

Ethical requirements that must be met before the introduction of new procedures.

For orthopaedic care of patients to continue to improve, new approaches, both diagnostic and therapeutic, must be continually developed. To verify that a new approach actually provides improved outcomes, these innovations must be subjected to rigorous scientific study. However, because outcomes of clinical interventions only can be studied in human subjects, these studies must not only meet scientific criteria, they also must meet strict ethical criteria. The Declaration of Helsinki, a document prepared by the World Medical Association that originally was written in 1964, revised substantially in 1975, and most recently revised in 1996, provides guidelines for such studies. In addition to satisfying ethical requirements, clinical investigators also face various complex issues that must be dealt with in the performance of clinical research studies. One of the most difficult issues is the conflict between a physician's concern for the well-being of his or her patients and the need for protocol driven trials. No matter how enthusiastic surgeons may be about a new therapeutic approach, they must recognize that they are responsible to scientifically validate their innovative approach with a well controlled clinical trial using valid functional outcome measures.

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PubMed2003

Bioethics.

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Advisory Committees↗
PubMed2004

New technologies for mechanical circulatory support: current status and future prospects of CorAide and MagScrew technologies.

Congestive heart failure remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, and alternatives to heart transplantation are urgently required. Mechanical circulatory support by ventricular assist devices and total artificial hearts have the potential to provide an alternative to heart transplantation if a small, durable, biocompatible, and totally implantable system is available. In this article, current technologies for mechanical circulatory support by implantable devices are reviewed and the current status and future prospects of the CorAide and MagScrew technologies, which have been developed and tested at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, are presented.

Assisted Circulation↗
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Clinical engineering as an academic discipline.

This paper includes sections written by the current or former Clinical Engineering coordinators of five universities on common problems faced by Clinical Engineering (CE) educational programs and the different solutions adopted on various campuses. The problems discussed include student recruitment, financial support, containment of student credit hours and faculty time, retention of CE graduates in the profession, and differentiation between Clinical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Technology.

Biomedical Engineering↗
PubMed2003

Nursing informatics: the key to unlocking contemporary nursing practice.

Nursing informatics is a relatively new nursing specialty. Recognized by the American Nurses' Association in 1992, this field within nursing has grown exponentially. Once the purview of highly specialized individuals, nursing informatics has now crept into all dimensions of nursing, from domain of advanced nurse practitioners to prominence in critical care nursing. Nowhere is the management and processing of health-related information more important than in the care of the critically ill patient. Fast-paced environments, split-second decision making, wireless communications, monitoring systems run with computerized backbones, and computerized ordering and documentation, all things unimaginable just a decade ago, are now fundamental to nursing practice. Each requires a baseline understanding of informatics for true mastery. The domain of nursing informatics continues to grow as nursing incorporates expanded roles and new technology into practice. Education for nurse informaticians includes preparation from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate level and national board certification. Areas of practice are expansive, including hospitals, industry, education, policy-making, research, administration, and international settings. Although informaticians work with computers, computing technology is not the heart of the domain. Computers are simply tools that are used. Examples of informatics tools include handheld devices, point-of-care documentation, computerized provider order entry, and bar code medication administration. Nursing informatics plays an essential role in the future directions of healthcare by defining the relationship between nurses and information technology as well as the knowledge that can be gained when these domains work together.

Biomedical Technology↗
PubMed2006

[Health care financing: is it enough and appropriate?].

INTRODUCTION: The object of this short paper is to present the results of Spanish public health care expenditures projections until 2013 according to the expected impact of the main demographic and technological health cost drivers. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Future annual health expenditures are estimated using a simple method based on the decomposition of the past main growth factors in two scenarios. The main cost drivers considered were the following: demography, which includes the increasing number of people and the impact of population ageing; the increase in the price of health care inputs above the general price level; and the impact of changes in medical practice related with expanding medical technology. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In 2013, public health care expenditure may be around 5.7% and 6% of gross domestic product (GDP); that is, at least, between 0.24 and 0.53 additional GDP points will be spent on public health care. The main factor responsible for the future expenditure increase will continue to be the increase in the average health service intensity, followed by demographic factors. In the base-case scenario, public expenditure increase until 2013 will be compatible with a real 2.5% annual increase in consumption of non-health goods and services. In order to finance the future costs, the Spanish population will have to devote to public health expenditure less than 7% of income increase until 2013. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES: Despite being important, the expected Spanish GDP growth until 2013 may be enough to finance the increase in public health expenditure as a result of the impact of demographic changes. Expanding medical technology is expected to continue being the main driver of future costs.

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Why is there a quality chasm?

Medical care seems to obtain less value from the resources it uses than other industries do, a phenomenon not limited to the United States. I explore several reasons for this, including consumers' ignorance, the rate of technological change, the widespread use of administered pricing, the difficulty of appraising a given provider's quality, and the role of the public sector with objectives other than efficiency. Although these causes suggest that the performance of medical care may always lag behind that of other industries, greater use of information technology and improved financial incentives will help to reduce the size of the quality chasm.

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