De Simone, Belinda;
Chouillard, Elie;
Sateli, Massimo;
Biffl, Walter;
Di Saverio, Salomone;
Moore, Ernest;
Kluger, Yoram;
Abu-Zidan, Fikri;
Ansoloni, Luca;
Coccolini, Federico;
Leppänemi, Ari;
Peitzmann, Andrew;
Pagani, Leonardo;
Fraga, Gustavo;
Paolilo, Ciro;
Picetti, Edoardo;
Valentino, Massimo;
Pikoulis, Emmanouil;
Biaocchi, Gian;
Catena, Fausto.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred, nations showed their unpreparedness to deal with a mass casualty incident of this proportion and severity, which resulted in a tremendous number of deaths even among healthcare workers. The World Society of Emergency Surgery conceived this position paper with the...
This guideline covers keeping adults in care homes safe from abuse and neglect. It includes potential indicators of abuse and neglect by individuals or organisations, and covers the safeguarding process from when a concern is first identified through to section 42 safeguarding enquiries. There are recomm...
El hemocultivo es un método diagnóstico para la detección de bacterias y otros microorganismos en sangre. Es una de las pruebas más eficientes para el diagnóstico de las bacteriemias.
La extracción de hemocultivos está recomendada cuando existe infección o sospecha de infección en pacientes de t...
This guideline covers safe and effective use of medicines in health and social care for people taking 1 or more medicines. It aims to ensure that medicines provide the greatest possible benefit to people by encouraging medicines reconciliation, medication review, and the use of patient decision aids....
Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability of h...
Phlebotomy the drawing of blood – has been practised for centuries and is still one of the most common invasive procedures in health care. Each step in the process of phlebotomy affects the quality of the specimen and is thus important for preventing laboratory error, patient injury and even death. Thi...
The WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to ...
