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For members of the Texas Children's Hospital medical staff
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From
the medical staff president
Stay current with the latest news and information
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By Joseph A. Garcia-Prats
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By Joseph A. Garcia-Prats,
M.D.
It is hard to believe that we have put the New Year’s party hats
away, celebrated Valentine’s Day, recovered from spring break,
embraced the craziness of college basketball mania called March
Madness…and that April is already here. Just as we have been
busy in our daily schedules, much continues to happen at Texas
Children’s. Physician-in-Chief
Dr. Ralph Feigin’s column touches on
many of these activities, as do the other articles in this issue
of Progress Notes. The following are a few that merit
extra attention.
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
(JCAHO)
will be making an unannounced one-day survey of the ambulatory
mental health services. Please remember that such surveys are no
longer announced; thus, our hospital policies and procedures, as
well as our overall preparedness, are of daily importance as
we conduct our duties. The Texas Children’s staff has been
diligently focused on this approach for several years and
continues to receive the highest approval for the surveys. We
expect this to be the case in this survey as well.
Anesthesia awareness
is not an issue that we as pediatricians deal with regularly in
our practice, but as we can see by Drs. Stayer and Andropoulos’
article, the experience may not be as unusual as we might think
and may pose some disturbing experiences to our patients. The
information they provide gives us an opportunity to help
our patients, and hopefully assist our colleagues in
Anesthesiology in determining the prevalence of this
post-anesthesia event, as well as possibly develop a prevention
strategy.
Also of
great interest in this edition of Progress Notes is Dr.
Warren’s article on
HIPAA
and Dr. Abrams'
bench to
bedside article on osteoporosis.
Please
enjoy this newsletter, and do not hesitate to call Dr. Kagan or myself regarding any suggestions to continue to make
this newsletter a practical source of information to you.
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Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D., is the 2006 president of the medical staff and a neonatologist at Texas Children’s. He also is a professor of pediatrics and a professor of medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Special Topics in Pediatrics: Diagnosing A
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Grand Rounds calendar
8:30 a.m., Fridays,
Texas Children's Hospital,
lower-level Auditorium
unless
otherwise listed.
April 14
Good Friday
April 21
Management of Chronic Pain in Children
Nancy Glass, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
April 28
Cadre R. Alpard Lecture: Current Topics in Pediatric
Liver Transplantation
CME 1 Credit
John A. Goss, M.D., Professor of Surgery
May 5
Foodborne Illnesses
Judith R. Campbell, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
May 12
Pediatric Epilepsy: To Treat or Not to Treat - the Audience
Decides
Dennis J. Dlugos, M.D., MSCE, Assistant Professor of Neurology
and of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
May 19
Clinical Pathological Conference: TBA
Edwina J. Popek, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology
May 26
Thomas A. Vargo, M.D. Lecture
Larry S. Jefferson, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
June 2
Resuscitation: Neonatal and Pediatric Update
Michael E. Speer, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics; Paul E.
Sirbaugh, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
June 9
Travel Medicine
Bonnie M. Word, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
June 16
The Notorious Drug Rash
Carla M. Davis, M.D., B.S., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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