Electronic Messaging for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Test Result Notification, Improving Treatment and Patient Satisfaction.

Background: Approximately 20% of chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhea (GC) cases in Louisiana are diagnosed at Parish Health Units. Patient notification of CT and GC test results involves nurses' phone calls and letters to positive patients, which is time-consuming and inefficient.

Methods: In December 2018, electronic results notification was implemented in Caddo Parish Health Unit using Chexout software to notify enrolled patients via text or email when test results are ready to view in a patient portal.

Preanesthesia screening phone messages and rate of return based on the primary language of patient.

As a part of the surgical process, patients are screened in the preanesthesia services department before surgery. Often phone messages are left in English. The nurses will continue to make multiple calls trying to reach patients.

A PACU crisis: a case study on the development and management of methemoglobinemia.

The development of methemoglobinemia requires rapid recognition, confirmation, and treatment. This case study describes the development, diagnosis, and management of a 63-year-old male scheduled for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy with an intraoperative cholangiogram who developed methemoglobinemia after benzocaine was given for intubation.

Self-collected versus provider-collected vaginal swabs for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis: an assessment of validity and reliability.

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) in pregnancy is related to numerous adverse events; however, the validity of different methods of vaginal swab collection to diagnosis BV among pregnant women is unclear. This study examines the validity of self-collected compared with provider-collected vaginal swabs and describes the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of BV assessment among a sample of pregnant women early in gestation. Gram-stain evaluation of vaginal samples using the Nugent criteria was conducted to determine the overall and morphotype-specific BV scores.