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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Instructions on how to drain additional CSF are provided to the intrepid flight team when they arrive and the patient is whisked away to a tertiary care center with pediatric neurosurgery. Pediatr Emerg Care. 88, 1327-1344.e2.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

1 The letter detailed ED physician stories, highlighting the preventable harms from boarding, crowding, long waits, staff shortages, burnout, and the disproportionate impact on behavioral health and pediatric populations. It was submitted in 2008 to the National Quality Forum (NQF), which convenes external groups to endorse measures.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. She’s there because your hospital is under-resourced, has injury or illness not thought related to gravidity, is too “sick” to make it to OB Labor/Delivery, or you’re trying to get OR to open. Chandrasekhar, S., Bulich, L. Topulos, G.