Patients receiving cardiac rehabilitation can be vulnerable to falls, particularly if they have other comorbidities. The cardiac rehabilitation staff at Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa., discussed the differing opinions about identification and assessment of patients who should be placed on a one-to-one…
A patient walks into rehab . and so begins the journey for both patient and practitioner through treatment in pulmonary rehabilitation. Many of the patients that walk through our doors suffer not only from chronic lung disease but from hypoxemia as well. Defined as…
In 2012, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in the United States treated more than 382,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.1 Only 11.4% survived to hospital discharge.1 The largest modern report of cardiac arrest was published by the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and it found that of…