Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide 1.3.1
Free Version
Publisher Description
Each year, preventable medical errors take the lives of almost 200,000 Americans making it the third leading cause of death in the United States. (Healthgrades 2004) On April 14, 2009, my mom, Louise Batz, went to have knee replacement surgery. That night, a medical error caused Mom to sustain an injury from which she could not recover and she lost her life eleven days later. Shortly after her passing, my family decided to honor my mother by founding the Louise Batz Foundation for Bedside Advocacy with the hope to better equip and educate families in order to make them stronger advocates of their own care during their hospital stay. The intention of this App is to provide a tool for families, medical staff, and patients that helps them to monitor care in real time. In addition to charts for medication prescriptions, the App will enable a patient to set alerts and triggers to help remind of medication times while trying to prevent over dosage or wrong dosage. The App acts as a digital library allowing a person to look up terms with which they are not familiar and is filled with everything from videos and articles to help them learn more about the risks associated with things such as high blood pressure and undiagnosed sleep apnea, to pictures and charts that illustrate how to spot kinked IV lines and unplugged leg compressors. In addition, by tracking vital signs such as temperature, an individual will be able to transfer those signs to a graph in order to help a medical team better follow trends and concerns over shift changes. This means that if there was a steady but slow rise in temperature over several hours, a new doctor would be able to more quickly identify the patient as a risk for sepsis, thus decreasing the likelihood of that person being permanently harmed or killed. When my mother was in the hospital, my family asked millions of questions and it didn t take long for us to realize that the biggest tragedy of her passing was that it was completely preventable. Our greatest hope is that this App will help you better understand your hospital stay and the role you must play as a member of your care team while providing you the tools and knowledge necessary to keep you and your loved ones safe and sound.
Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPad.
About Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide
Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide is a free app for iOS published in the Health & Nutrition list of apps, part of Home & Hobby.
The company that develops Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide is Ringful LLC. The latest version released by its developer is 1.3.1.
To install Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2013-03-15 and was downloaded 3 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation Patient Guide is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
