How did poor handoffs and bad communication contribute to a woman with diabetic ketoacidosis, dying 10 hours after arriving at the Emergency Department? In this Risk Management Radio Podcast sponsored by PPIC, Deborah Price, RN, MSN, PhD, Director of Risk Management and Tricia Bliujus, RN, BSN, MHA, CHPN, CCM, Claims Analyst/Risk Consultant discuss the case and how mistakes, such as missing labs, decreasing blood sugar, poor documentation, and shift change contributed to a death that should have never happened.

On this edition of Surgery ICU Rounds, Dr. Jeffrey Guy, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director at the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center takes up the topic of disaster planning, implementation and recovery. Case in point: hurricane evacuations. One of the foremost experts with first-hand experience joins us: Dr. Norman E. McSwain, Jr., professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine and attending surgeon at Tulane University Hospital & Clinic. Dr. McSwain has been the Trauma Director for the Level 1 Trauma Center at Charity Hospital in New Orleans for the past 10 years, and he is the Founder and Medical Director for Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and a police surgeon in the New Orleans Police Department. The New York Times called Dr. McSwain a “Hero of Katrina” following his work at Charity Hospital in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Host, Dr. Jeffrey Guy, Trauma Surgeon and Director at the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center talks about the impact of Advanced Trauma Life Support( ATLS) in global trauma care with Will Chapleau, manager of the Advanced Trauma Life Support Program for the American College of Surgeons. They will discuss the impact that ATLS has worldwide, what techniques are changing, touch upon Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and how military physicians are using ATLS overseas.

Alzheimers disease is nearing a public emergency with almost 13 million affected. What’s being talked about in the medical community about treatment and new drugs? Join Neurologist, Dr. Lorne Direnfeld hosting this podcast with guest, Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and the Director of the Mary S Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA. He is also the 2008 winner of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award. Hear about exciting immuno therapies - antibodies infused by IV - stimulating the removal of toxic amyloid protein from the brain, drugs in preclinical development that promise to inhibit brain cell death and disease modifying therapy that generates the amyloid protein in the brain with a new drug that could be on the market by 2010.

Why Neurology? What drives the physician to specialize in this field? Join Dr. Lorne Direnfeld as he hosts the first in a series of podcasts highlighting personal profiles of prominent neurologists. His special guest is Dr. John Noseworthy, editor in chief of the journal, Neurology and former professor and chair of the department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Noseworthy reveals his passion for the profession, and the tremendous fulfillment it has given him. A must listen for anyone thinking about neurology as their specialty. And no, one CT scanner is not worth a room full of neurologists!

Host, Dr. Jeffrey Guy, Trauma Surgeon and Director at the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center talks about changes in fluid & blood resuscitation in the critically ill patient with Dr. Bryan Cotton, specialist in emergency general surgery, trauma surgery and surgical critical care. What are we doing right and what can we do better? And hear about strategy of damage control resuscitation and 1-to-1-to-1 transfusion practices in military combat used now in civilian care.