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Improving Care for Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP)

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Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. There are several tools that help us identify our implicit biases and bring cultural humility into our daily practice. Conducting research regarding best practices for improving health outcomes for NELP patients. February 2011. Youdelman M.

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Heat-Related Illness

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Pediatrics 2011; 128:e741. The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best-Practices Recommendations. Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and Council on School Health, Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents. Casa DJ et al.

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A Safety Solution for Emergency Department Staff and Patients

ACEP Now

FIGURE 1: Number of nonfatal workplace violence injuries and illnesses with days away from work, 2011-18. 4 As with other daily challenges in the practice of emergency medicine, EDs deserve a range of nuanced, effective tools that can be tailored to particular patients and scenarios. “But Click to enlarge.) J Emerg Nurs.

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

Nachi: We’re going to be talking about the pathophysiology of cannabinoids, clinical findings in abuse, best practice management, differences between natural and synthetic cannabinoids, and treatment for cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. So buckle up and get ready.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

neutropenia) ( Babl 2011 , Dokko 2014 ). 2011 Jun;27(6):496-9. Best practice for fever management with intravenous acetaminophen in pediatric oncology. Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2011. As clinicians we can target specific “stations” along the pain route to target the signal more effectively. Acad Emerg Med. Am J Emerg Med.

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Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate and C-Reactive Protein in the ED

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Best practices advise not to routinely order an ESR to evaluate for inflammation in an undifferentiated patient and to instead order a CRP when evaluating for acute inflammation (4). 2011 Apr;40(4):428-31. link] (Accessed on April 22, 2023.) (19) 19) Hariharan P, Kabrhel C. J Emerg Med. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.05.029.

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Antibiotics in the paediatric emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Tonsillitis – Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best Practice US [Internet]. 2011 Aug;16(8):995–1006. British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in children: update 2011. 2011 Oct 1;66(Suppl 2):ii1–23. 2011 Jan;25(1):21–9. 2011 Sep 1;128(3):595–610.