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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

Private equity investment in health care has increased more than 20-fold since 2000, with 70 percent of this activity since 2010. From 200 billion dollars that year, the firms that make up the Healthcare Private Equity Association now have over 2 trillion dollars in assets under management.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

One also has to keep in mind that this study occurred at Level 1 trauma centers and may not be applicable in critical access hospitals or lower leveled trauma centers. Lancet 2010; 376:23-32.[ Bottom Line: There does not appear to be a 30 day mortality benefit for trauma patients given TXA pre-hospital (vs in- hospital).

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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. EMBlog Mayo Clinic. Tue, Aug 25, 2015.