Singapore Health Sep-Oct 2023 Issue

12 Sep 2023 | Singapore Health

Nurses are often best placed to spot bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes that hamper the smooth running of wards and clinics. At Singapore General Hospital (SGH), nurses and their colleagues in other disciplines regularly volunteer to brainstorm for ways to smoothen processes. Read about three award-winning projects – a training system to attain mastery of cannulation, the design of a new surgical gown, and the development of a series of solutions to avoid dehydration in elderly patients – in the latest issue of Singapore Health.

Learn how to read the hospital care cost form for estimating surgical costs. Find out about an alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea sufferers who cannot or dislike using CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), and how a regular vaping user developed a rare condition and how it was treated.

Also, understand more about how gut microbes are crucial for our well-being, the advantages of undergoing health screening early, and the multi-stage treatment process for jaw alignment.

Download the Singapore Health Issue 78 (September-October 2023) (large file size) and read via flipbook here.