Implementing a Multidisciplinary Prone Positioning Team.

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has escalated clinical needs while interrupting regular processes and straining resources. Striving to deliver optimal care to infected patients with respiratory failure, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago created a multidisciplinary team to provide manual prone positioning safely and efficiently. Team members' experiences, which they shared through a survey, help to illustrate the advantages of a multidisciplinary approach and suggest opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of such a team.

Addressing Safe Opioid Monitoring Practices Using an Interprofessional Approach.

Objective: The aims of the project are to increase knowledge related to opioids and improve adherence to evidence-based interventions for sedation monitoring and assessment in adult inpatients receiving opioids for pain through delivery of an interprofessional online program.

Background: Preventable opioid-induced respiratory depression is a patient safety risk in hospitals. Sedation and respiratory assessment and monitoring guidelines and tools are available to improve practice.

Impact of the unit-based patient safety officer.

One organization assessed the association between increased caregiver hours per patient-day and a reduction in inpatient falls by adding a new role for a patient safety officer. Although the role was statistically significant in reducing patient falls by 50% on the intervention unit, fall reductions were not statistically significant when compared with the control unit.

[Integration of prenatal screening for Down syndrome in the first and third trimester (proposal for a screening protocol].

Objective: Proposal of antenatal Down syndrome screening protocol using integration of first and second trimester results.

Design: Review.

Setting: Antenatal screening centre GENNET, Prague.