A Procedure’s Impact on Patient Comfort, Care, and Outcome

This blog teaches procedures, with its case studies and videos intended to help you perfect your technique and strengthen your confidence. This month we explore issues related to procedural patient impact. How will your intervention positively or negatively affect patient outcome? What happens when we decide to step in and complete a procedure?   A risk is always inherent when a provider undertakes a procedure, no matter how insignificant. Carefully, we weigh the pros and cons of the potential procedure with our patients. Will our intervention cause a positive effect or outcome? Our goals are to repair, resolve, or restore whatever may have gone wrong. That means there might be some sort of suffering along the way.   Or does it? There is a potential for any procedure to have a poor outcome. Our interventions are intended to help, not hurt the patient under our care.   Patient Impact: Pain Control Pain control can make a major difference in every procedure, and is a best practice for our patient. Procedures can be completed more effectively and without distraction when a patient has less pain. And we are less likely to make a mistake, stop early, or prolong the procedure when we can perform without interruption. Pain control may even lead to better cosmetic outcomes because the patient is more relaxed, calm, and cooperative. Technique is only half the battle.   Vaginal Abscess I&D It is impossible to maintain perfection 100 percent of the time. Poor patient compliance,...
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