The Impact of a Nursing-Led Intervention Bundle With a Bedside Checklist to Reduce Mortality During the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Future Emergencies.

Objective: The study objective was to examine the effectiveness of a bedside checklist enforcing nursing-led interventions in hospitalized COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic.

Background: The absence of treatment guidelines for COVID-19 presented challenges to reducing mortality rates early in the pandemic. A bedside checklist and a bundle of nursing-led interventions named "Nursing Back to Basics (NB2B)" were assembled for patient care after a scoping review of evidence.

Parental Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing of Hospitalized Children: Rethinking Infection Control in a Pandemic.

Background: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a challenge to infection control within hospital systems. Asymptomatic children and their caretakers carry the risk of silently spreading infection in pediatric emergency departments and hospital units. Our current knowledge is evolving, and infection control measures are frequently changing depending on new emerging data.

Evaluation of a Practice Improvement Protocol for Patient Transfer From the Emergency Department to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit After a Level I Trauma Activation.

Background: ED boarding is a major issue in many hospitals. ED boarding occurs when there is insufficient hospital capacity to supply inpatient beds for admitted patients. ED boarding is not only a problem because of increased wait times for patients but also because it results in delays in administration of medication, higher rates of complications, and increased mortality.

Intrauterine device embedded in omentum of postpartum patient with a markedly retroverted uterus: a case report.

Background: The intrauterine device is a popular form of long-acting reversible contraception. Although generally safe, one of the most serious complications of intrauterine device use is uterine perforation. Risk factors for perforation include position of the uterus, force exerted during intrauterine device insertion, postpartum period, and breastfeeding.

Abnormal 1 hour glucose challenge test followed by a normal 3 hour glucose tolerance test: does it identify adverse pregnancy outcome?

Objective: To determine if pregnancies with an abnormal glucose challenge test (GCT) but a normal (GTT) are at increased risk for fetal macrosomia or an adverse pregnancy outcome.

Study Design: This prospective observational study matched women with an abnormal glucose challenge test and a normal GTT with the next patient with a normal GCT.

Results: Over 12 months, 107 women with abnormal GCT were matched with 107 women with normal GCT.

Ex utero intrapartum treatment for fetal oropharyngeal cyst.

Background. A prenatally diagnosed fetal anomaly that could compromise the fetal airway at delivery can be managed safely with the ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure. Case.

Does hypoglycemia following a glucose challenge test identify a high risk pregnancy?

Objective: An association between maternal hypoglycemia during pregnancy with fetal growth restriction and overall perinatal mortality has been reported. In a retrospective pilot study we found that hypoglycemia was linked with a greater number of special care/neonatal intensive care unit admissions and approached significance in the number of women who developed preeclampsia. That study was limited by its retrospective design, a narrow patient population and the inability to perform multivariate analysis because of the limitations in the data points collected.