Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine successfully completed the nation’s first double-lung and liver transplant, the health system said March 28.  

A new method to resuscitate cardiac arrest patients often proves more effective than CPR, but various implementation hurdles have prevented many hospitals from using it, according to a March 27 article in The New York Times Magazine.

 In January, Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., began seeing pediatric patients through a new program to address childhood obesity. 

Patients who are “double-jointed” may be at higher risk for developing long COVID, according to a study published March 19 in BMJ Public Health.

Five student groups were awarded prizes for innovations they developed to address safety issues in healthcare as part of the 2024 Health Hackathon hosted by New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine. 

Long hospital stays and severe infections in children are linked to a handful of factors, including hospitalization during the rainy season and malnutrition, according to research published March 20 in BMC Infectious Diseases. 

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney, the Boston-based system said March 21.

On March 20, Elon Musk’s Neuralink introduced 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh as the first patient to have received its brain-computer implant. 

The Joint Commission has revised several elements of performance for hospitals, including one that covers how organizations handle medical waste. 

The Joint Commission released a simplified breakdown of eight patient safety goals for hospitals in 2024.