Patient Ambulation and Infection Prevention and Episode 398

New treatments and increased vigilance for Afib-related strokes, plus a look at two excellent products seen at the NTI 2016 conference in New Orleans last month. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.

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Welcome to the Show

Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. First up, in this week’s nursing news items, we have a special recorded interview segment on stroke prevention and awareness, as well as a new treatment for Afib that could prevent stroke onset.

Then in this week’s interview segments from the NTI conference in New Orleans, I have two innovative products I found there, one that improves patient mobility early in ICU stays, and the second that reduces the spread of infection within the hospital and beyond. We’ll have that and more later in this episode after the news.

If you want to get back in touch with me, please drop me an email. You can send those e-mails in to [email protected]. I love to hear from you and I make sure I respond back to every email that comes in. Send me links to news items you’d like me to cover, interview suggestions with you or somebody you know.

Also, a special thank you to Physio-Control, Nezzie by Blickman, and Advanced Ultra-Violet Systems for sponsoring my trip to that amazing AACN Critical Care Nurses conference.  That’s it. I will have more contact information coming up later on in this episode. Let’s get on into this week’s news items coming right up!

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Did you know that there are certain areas or zones of the U.S. where people are more likely to have a stroke? This week in a special news interview is Dr. Vivek Reddy who joins us to share information on stroke risk zones and how to manage modifiable risk factors.

Dr. Reddy, MD is Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services for The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System, and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Professor of Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Icahn Sch...