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Case Study: a rural Alabama hospitalist achieves life-saving rattlesnake bite treatment with UpToDate
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Life-Saving Treatment - Customer Case Study
The customer, Life-Saving Treatment, is a rural hospital in Alabama represented by Dr. Shannon Heinrich. The challenge was the urgent need to correctly diagnose and treat a critically ill patient with a rattlesnake bite, a case with which the local team had little experience. The hospital required immediate, authoritative, and actionable clinical guidance to determine if the patient met the criteria for a complex and time-sensitive anti-venom treatment to prevent potential limb loss or death.
Wolters Kluwer provided its UpToDate clinical decision support resource as the solution. Dr. Heinrich used the service's algorithm to correctly identify the need for anti-venom, proactively secure the drug, and guide the entire treatment protocol. As a result, Wolters Kluwer's solution enabled the rural facility to provide expert-level care, avoiding a risky patient transfer. The measurable impact was the successful resolution of the patient's symptoms, directly preventing a life- or limb-threatening outcome.
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Life-Saving Treatment
Shannon Heinrich
Life-Saving Treatment