- AACE PATIENT SAFETY EXCHANGE -

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What is The AACE Patient Safety Exchange?

Dr. Richard Hellman - AACE Immediate Past President
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Featured Case Study:
Seizures Following Therapy for Osteoporosis
A 60-year-old man was seen after presenting to the emergency room with seizures. His history is notable for having had gastric bypass surgery 5 years ago for obesity. About 2 months before, he injured himself playing tennis. An x-ray did not show a ...
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Submitted by:
Dr. Steven Petak

Featured Case Study:
Post Operative Hypernatremia: A Simple but Dangerous Oversight
The patient is a 63-year-old Caucasian female with a history of central diabetes insipidus following resection of a nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenoma. The patient had been stable with normal electrolyte and fluid balance taking desmopressin 0.2 mg orally twice a day. ...
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Submitted by:
Dr. Fred A. Williams, Jr.

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Current News

CT Scans May Cause Medical Device Malfunctions

On July 15 , 2008, the FDA released a report stating that direct x-ray exposure from CT scanning has been reported to not only cause malfunction of cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, but also to affect other devices...

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7.15.08 Patient Safety: The Joint Commission Perspective Submitted by: Peter B. Angood MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM [View]	5.20.08 NQF National Priorities Partnership: Leveraging Our Collective Efforts to Improve Safety & Quality Submitted by: Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA [View]

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