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Death of Gloria Ramirez. Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [ 1] was an American woman from Riverside, California, who was dubbed the Toxic Lady or the Toxic Woman by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood. Ramirez had been admitted to the emergency room ...
Hospitals in Tennessee. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501 (c) (3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [ 1]
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Diagnosis-related group. Diagnosis-related group ( DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups, [ 1] with the last group (coded as 470 through v24, 999 thereafter) being "Ungroupable". This system of classification was developed as a collaborative project by Robert B Fetter, PhD, of the Yale School of ...
Hospice care in the United States. Exterior of an inpatient hospice unit. In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual, or social in nature. The concept of hospice as a place to treat ...
The original New York Cancer Hospital [2] built between 1884 and 1886, now housing, at 455 Central Park West and 106th Street in Manhattan. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City. MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute -designated Comprehensive ...
Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor. An atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor ( AT/RT) is a rare tumor usually diagnosed in childhood. Although usually a brain tumor, AT/RT can occur anywhere in the central nervous system (CNS), including the spinal cord. About 60% will be in the posterior cranial fossa (particularly the cerebellum ).
Cancer treatment. A patient prepared for radiation therapy. Specialty. Oncology. ICD-10-PCS. 110000053. [ edit on Wikidata] Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [ 1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation ...