The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers and healthcare purchasers, has issued perhaps the most visible set of surgical quality indicators for its value-based purchasing initiative. Although originally focused…
Figure 4-1. Interactions between environment and genetics dictate phenotype. A: Environment alters genetics over millennia, while the effects of environment on epigenetics take place over generations. In the case of…
SCENE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES Airway 1 It is paramount once on scene for the EMT to determine the status of the patient’s airway. Evaluating the patient’s Glasgow Coma Scale…
Anatomy and physiology, or A&P, are subjects that just about every student assumes will be among the most difficult to study. True, it requires a lot of memorization, and many…
FIG. 3.1 Surgical department layouts. A, Central corridor, racetrack style. B, Central corridor, hotel style. C, Central core, peripheral corridor style. (From Phillips N: Berry & Kohn’s operating room technique, ed 13,…
(Copyright © Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Getty Images.) There’s much more to surgery than just the procedure itself. Cutting into living flesh, whether it’s done surgically or traumatically, carries a risk of…
