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Customer Survey
Dawn AC 16th User Group
American User Group
Backing up your Data
Book Printer Reminder
Aspirin Works Well after Heart Procedure
Taser Shock Restores Man's Heart Rhythm?
Applications Available!
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Welcome to the May edition of
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DAWN AC Anticoagulation Software E-Newsletter for 2008.
We will shortly be sending out a
Dawn AC survey to all of our existing customers to find out more
about the likes and dislikes with the products, support service,
etc. This feedback will enable us to look at how we can improve
these areas further.
We would be really grateful if you could take the time to complete
the survey when it arrives. It should only take around 5 minutes to
complete.
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Dawn AC Anticoagulation
Software 16th User Group 2008 |
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We are holding our annual Dawn AC User Group on
the 29th and 30th of September this year at the Rheged Centre.
The
User Group, as many of you know, offers the chance for Health
Care Professionals to share ideas and learn alternative
methods of best practice within Anticoagulation therapy, as
well as the day being informative and beneficial.
Provisional talks lined up for the meeting so far are as
follows:
"What's the Future for the New
Anticoagulation Drugs?"
Eric Watts, Consultant Haematologist, Basildon
"Implementing
NPSA Guidelines in Anticoagulation"
Theresa Woodman, AC Nurse Specialist,
Cumberland Infirmary
"VTE Prevention
- Is there an Answer?"
Sue Bacon,
CNS DVT, Scarborough Hospital
"Implementing the change from DAWN v6 to v7 in a Regional
General
Hospital's Anticoagulation Clinic"
Rhys Daltrey, BMS 2, Southend Hospital
"Use of Expert
Systems to Improve AC Care"
Simon McDonald, Lancaster University
We are keen to hear from those of you who would
like to give a short talk at the User Group Meeting, we are
offering a 'speaker’s package' where there will be a
£100 reduction in the meeting
fee and we also help with your presentation
preparation. In response to user requests, we invite you to
share how you use Dawn AC in different settings eg laboratory
based, community based with POC, pharmacist managed. In
addition, we would be interested in your experiences with
Version 7. If you are interested in speaking at our user group
then please contact us at
sales@4s-dawn.com.
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North American User Group |
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The North American User Group is
going to be held on the 10th October in Albuquerque, the day
before the South West Symposium on Thrombosis and Hemostasis,
also being held in Albuquerque, making this, potentially, a
very
informative and worthwhile trip.
We are, however, in need of
speakers to contribute to the success of the day. If anyone
would be interested in giving a short presentation, rather
like what is mentioned above, then again we would be keen to
hear from you.
Thank you to everyone who kindly
offered to help organise this years meeting. As the
meeting this year is to be held in Albuquerque to gain the
benefit of two meetings in one trip, the following people from
around this area are organising the event:
- Rudy Pena, ABQ Health
Partners, Albuquerque
- Dan Witt, Kaiser Permanente, Colorado Region
- Angela Aldrich, Presbyterian
Hospital, Albuquerque
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Backing up Your Data - Are you
Backing Up Regularly? |
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As most of you know, backing up your patient data is essential
to protect it in the event of a system crash, power cut, etc
where data can be lost. But do you know how often your data is
being backed up, if at all?
For Dawn AC version 7 users, backups can be scheduled to run
automatically so that this is taken care of for you. However,
you should periodically check that scheduled backups are still
running and have not stopped if maintenance work or updates have
been performed on the server.
If you would like any advice on how to set this up, or need any
assistance with backing up data on any version of Dawn AC, then
please contact us at
support@4s-dawn.com or call us on 015395 63091 and we will
be more than happy to help you.
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Research Shows Aspirin Works
Well after Heart Procedure |
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According to research released from the Intermountain Medical
Center recently, some patients do not need to be given warfarin
after a heart ablation procedure, as they benefit just as much
from aspirin, with less associated risks.
The study, which looked at 540 patients who were not at high risk
of a stroke, found that they were just as protected taking an
aspirin a day. The study excluded those patients who were at high
risk of a stroke.
Dr. John D. Day, MD of IMC's Heart Rhythm Sevices commented, "It's
good news, because warfarin has a 1 percent chance each year
you're on it of a life-threatening bleed - either a hemorrhagic
stroke or elsewhere in the body".
To read more of this article, please follow the link below:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700225869,00.html
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Man's Heart Rhythm Restored by a Taser Shock?
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Three doctors at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, have reported
an instance of a man with an irregular heartbeat being
restored to normal possibly as a result of a shock with a
Taser gun.
The finding, which is to be published in the
Annals of Emergency Medicine,
may provide some evidence that a shock of this kind could
possibly restore an irregular heart rhythm.
The Taser gun is able to deliver an electric shock of up to
50,000 volts, and while some cases have been reported which
indicate a possible link between a taser shock and an
irregular heartbeat, this appears to be the first instance of
a heartbeat being restored to normal.
The cardiologist who attended to the man, Dr. Kyle Richards,
commented, "People can spontaneously go from atrial
fibrillation into a normal rhythm without any intervention at
all. You cannot conclusively say that the Taser did it. It's
just one more thing that says, hey, Tasers can actually affect
the heart".
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New Applications Available! |
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We are pleased to announce that we now have several additional
applications available to aid healthcare professionals.
Dawn Anaemia (anemia) is an
application to track patients on ESA's. This application can
detect and flag up out of line results, as well as aiding the
management and treatment of anaemia patients by using a diary
facility and making the tracking and following up of patients more
efficient. This new application is integrated as an additional
module from version 7.6 of Dawn onwards.
To find out more about this application, please visit our website
http://www.4s-dawn.com/anaemia
Dawn Rheumatology
(immunosuppressants)
is an application to monitor your anti-TNF and DMARD patients
effectively. This application can be
used to again detect and flag up out of line results, as well as
aiding with the management and tracking of patients. This new
application is integrated as an additional module from version 7.6
of Dawn onwards.
To find out more about this application, visit our website
http://www.4s-dawn.com/dmard
QlickView is a fast, cost
effective way of analysing vast amounts of data simply. QlikView
software gives:
- Clear integrated dashboards for analysing and reporting
- Simple and fun visually interactive breakdowns
- Easy implementation in days rather than months
- QlickView software can link with most databases ad spreadsheets
To find out more about this new software, please visit our website
http://www.4s-dawn.com/clinicalperformance
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