The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) has issued a supplementary patient safety advisory along with its quarterly 2007 March patient safety advisory to raise awareness of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).
A toolkit containing CIN information for facilities to raise awareness of the complication accompanies the supplementary advisory, PA-PSRS said. The toolkit contains a presentation with CIN information for educating clinicians, an algorithm to help providers recognize patients with risk factors for CIN, and a poster containing the pertinent CIN information to raise awareness in facilities.
Information on the advisory and toolkit is available at the PA-PSRS Web site.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 30, 2007
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