Nurse Practitioners Add Value to Event Emergency Teams
Integrating nurse practitioners into mass-gathering medical teams offers a real-time solution to a sudden surge in patients.
Technology Center Untangles Alphabet Soup of Regulations
Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization walks researchers along winding path to commerce.
Continuum of Care for Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders
Vanderbilt opens dedicated center for organizing and improving complex multi-disciplinary care for CSF.
Researchers Navigate ‘Valley of Death’ in Product Creation
The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering helps researchers gain experience and hone their skills as entrepreneurs.
Preserving Fertility Options After Treatment is Advocates’ Goal
Call-to-action urges preservation of reproduction as part of pediatric cancer care protocols.
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Guidelines Help Non-specialists Treat Obstetric Hypertension
Two toolkits help clinicians identify hypertensive disorders and prevent emergencies during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Testing Normoxia vs. Hyperoxia for Cardiac Surgery
Randomized single-site study answers questions about the potential superiority of either approach.
Teams Map Early Progress of Colorectal Cancer
Vanderbilt is creating a roadmap of colorectal cancer progression as part of an NCI-funded Cancer Moonshot initiative.
Surgeons Top Reports of Unprofessional Behavior
Surgeons and nonsurgeon proceduralists experienced more reports of unprofessional behavior, according to a new restrospective study.
Conversational Format Encourages End-of-Life Planning
A new style of advanced-care planning packet helped increase the number of patients with advance directives in the EMR.
Peer Feedback Prompts Professionalism Among Nurses
A well-established Vanderbilt University Medical Center program has proven effective at reinforcing professionalism and patient safety in a new population: nurses.
Mental Health Affects Appearance Perception Following Palsy
People with mental illness who experience non-flaccid facial paralysis exhibit a more negative response.
Pediatricians Urge Preparedness for Mass Casualties
What pediatricians should know to be more effective in assisting children through crisis.
Physician-Patient Messaging Ripe for AI Upgrade
Pilot study suggests large language model programs may help improve the efficiency of patient-provider messaging.
HDL Switches From Friend to Foe in RA
In rheumatoid arthritis, altered microRNA cargo on HDL blunts protection against cardiovascular disease.