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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. This guideline revision is particularly timely as EMS systems have shown their abilities to dramatically improve survival and neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, STEMI, acute stroke, and other time-sensitive conditions. Prehosp Emerg Care.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

This funding expanded the committee’s work to include three reports: Hospital Based Emergency Care – at the Breaking Point ; Emergency Medical Services – at the Crossroads ; and Emergency Care for Children – Growing Pains ,” all released in 2007. Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We million in federal grants.

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

Jeff: If those figures seem a bit high, another CDC study found that in a general population survey of a quarter million people between 2006-2008, 9% met the criteria for major depression. Mental health and substance abuse-related emergency department visits among adults, 2007: statistical brief #92. Pretty big numbers.

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Episode 23 - Influenza Diagnosis and Management in the Emergency Department

EB Medicine

The CDC estimates that epidemics cost 10 billion dollars per year. The CDC defines “influenza-like illness” as a temperature > 100 F, plus cough or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause other than influenza. In 2007-2008, an oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 strain emerged globally. Again, that’s www.ebmedicine.net/APP.