Showing papers by "Atul A. Gawande published in 2004"
TL;DR: As of November 9, 2004, a total of 10,153 service members had suffered war injuries.
Abstract: As of November 9, 2004, a total of 10,153 service members had suffered war injuries. Dr. Atul Gawande writes about a military medical system that has made fundamental and effective changes in the strategies and systems of battle care.
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TL;DR: One afternoon last December, I took a tour of my hospital with Deborah Yokoe, an infectious-disease specialist, and Susan Marino, a medical technologist by training, and their full-time job is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital.
Abstract: One afternoon last December, I took a tour of my hospital with Deborah Yokoe, an infectious-disease specialist, and Susan Marino, a medical technologist by training. They work in our infection-control unit. Their full-time job is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital. They have coped with influenza epidemics, Legionnaires' disease, fatal bacterial meningitis, and once this past year, a case that, according to the patient's brain-biopsy results, might have been Creutzfeld–Jakob disease — a nightmare, because ordinary heat-sterilization of the neurosurgical instruments used would not have kept the infectious agent from being transferred to other patients. Yokoe and . . .
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