EMDocs

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

3 Increasing Strikes and Unions Labor actions in healthcare can disrupt normal hospital operations, potentially impacting costs and threatening patient quality of care. One study from the National Bureau of Economic Research on nursing strikes in New York State from 1984 to 2004 found that hospital mortality increased by 19.4%

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Hospitals Research Patient Safety Wellness 98

Emergency Medicine Journal

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Methods Adults (16+ years) from the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) registry (January 2008–December 2017) served as surrogates for MI victims, with P1 patients identified using predefined criteria. The best existing tool was the BCD Triage Sieve (sensitivity 68.2%, area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) 0.688).

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Military Operations Research 52

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

billion dollars in one of the largest leveraged buyouts since the 2008 financial crisis, of which over 7 billion dollars was new debt obligation.18 While secrecy surrounds the operations of many PE-owned groups, Envision serves as a case study. Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). The New Yorker. Appelbaum E, Batt R.

Hospitals 113

Hospitals Radiology Radiology Emergency Department 113

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 5, 2022

AEM 2021 Guest Skeptic: Professor Daniel Fatovich is an emergency physician and clinical researcher based at Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. AEM 2021 Guest Skeptic: Professor Daniel Fatovich is an emergency physician and clinical researcher based at Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. Tricoci et al.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Research Pediatrics Outcomes 40

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Emergency Medicine research was and still is tremendously underfunded,” says John E. Dr. Prescott, currently retired, was Chief Academic Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2008-2021 where he says he worked with “every single school of medicine in the U.S.,” Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We

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EMS Research Academics Military 45

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

10 Commandments of Risk Management (Camp Operations) THE "20 Commandments" of EMTALA Ten Commandments For Malpractice Depositions The Top Ten Ways to Ensure Frustration, Miscommunication, and Poor Patient Care the Next Time You Provide (or Request) a Consult [N.B. Higginson, I., Belsham, P., Hicks, A., & Boon, D.

Mass Casualty Incidents 40

Mass Casualty Incidents Burns Urgent Care Pediatrics 40

Taming the SRU

MARCH 14, 2023

VP Shunt - Courtesy of Cancer Research UK via wikimedia - CC-4.0 - [link] Case courtesy of Paul Simkin, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 30453 Case courtesy of Dr Ruslan Asadov, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 8401. Ultimately, definitive management is in the operating room with revision or replacement of the VP shunt. 2008) Shprecher, Schwalb, Kurlan.

Seizures 52

Seizures Emergency Department Pediatrics Critical Access 52

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Jan 23 2008;(1):CD000396. Neuropathic pain: redefinition and a grading system for clinical and research purposes. Pharmacologic therapy should only be utilized for chronic low back pain for patients who have not responded adequately to the aforementioned options. Epub 2017 Feb 14. PMID: 28192789. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.

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Emergency Department Fractures Burns EMS 106

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

Pediatrics 40

Pediatrics Soft Tissue Injuries Burns Emergency Department 40

PulmCCM

MARCH 7, 2025

Any self-respecting surgeon or anesthesiologist will tell you that patients undergoing surgery before the weekend receive just as high a quality of care as those operated on earlier in the week. between 2008 and 2011, patients in the U.K. overall—but they also found that patients with operations on Sundays had increased risk.

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Outcomes Hospitals Operations Radiology 116

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. Anesthesiology, 111(1), 63-71. ** Research results of airway changes while titrating propofol (similar to ED deep sedation).

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Resuscitation Airway Management EMS CPR 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Papers of Abraham Lincoln researcher discovers report of Dr. Charles A. " EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2008). President Eisenhower's Operation for Regional Enteritis A Footnote to History. Leale on Assassination, April 15, 1865. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln. www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org. “Is

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Stroke COPD Emergency Nursing Sepsis 40