Wednesday, January 27, 2016

How 1 hospital managed to ride out the storm - WTOP





We can all learn from this hospital.

WASHINGTON — It’s business as usual at local hospitals after a storm
that paralyzed the D.C. area. They functioned smoothly through the worst
of it, in large part because they planned ahead.

At Adventist Health Care Shady Grove Medical Center, as at most of
the region’s hospitals, planning started well before the blizzard
struck. Instead of making hospital staff scramble to get to work in the
snow, the decision was made that they would shelter in place during the
storm — taking up residence in empty hospital beds......

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How 1 hospital managed to ride out the storm - WTOP

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Two fresh MERS cases reported | Arab News


 RIYADH: The Ministry of Health has announced the detection of two new
cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The cases involve a 58-year-old in Jeddah and an 85-year-old in Al-Muznab.
“The patients are in stable condition and under treatment. Their ailment has
been  attributed to exposure to camel,” a report quoted the MoH as
saying......

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Two fresh MERS cases reported | Arab News

Organ transplant cases increase 300 percent | Arab News


JEDDAH: The number of transplant cases in the Kingdom increased 300
percent during 2015 in comparison with 2014, with the transplant of 778
kidneys, an increase of 24 percent, of which 634 were from live patients
and 144 from brain-dead donors.

King Faisal Specialty Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah ranked first in kidney
transplant surgeries, with 187 surgeries, an increase of 40 percent over the previous
 year. The research center in King Faisal Specialty Hospital in Riyadh came second
 with 181 transplants; King Fahd Specialty Hospital in Dammam came third with
131 transplants; Prince Sultan Medical Military City in Riyadh came fourth with
 91 cases; and King Abdulaziz Medical City for the National Guard ranked
 fifth with 52 transplants........

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Organ transplant cases increase 300 percent | Arab News

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Why You Can Get So Many Diseases from Mosquitoes | TIME


Zika virus, the latest mosquito-borne virus to hit the United States, joins a long list of other infections the insects can carry, like malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya and West Nile. How can these bugs—so tiny that we often miss them at first swipe—be responsible for so many infections? It turns out their vampire-like tendencies are largely to blame.....

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Why You Can Get So Many Diseases from Mosquitoes | TIME

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

SFHP, Riyadh (Nursing Department)




Published on Aug 10, 2014
SFH, Riyadh - Nursing Department

Tour the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.




Published on Sep 8, 2012
The staff of Helen Ziegler and Associates,North America's preeminent recruiter for healthcare jobs in the Middle East, made this video to provide a glimpse of what life is like on-site at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.