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

EMDocs

have limited English proficiency according to the 2015 U.S. 13 Interventions may include: Ascertaining a patient’s preferred language early in the clinical encounter (during registration, for instance), and clearly documenting this preference in a place that is visible to all providers. Over 25 million individuals in the U.S.

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Should I Apply Compression Devices To Patients With DVT?

The Trauma Pro

A meta-analysis of 13 studies published in 2015 showed that early ambulation was not associated with a higher incidence of new PE. But the key fact is that every compression device manufacturer includes existing DVT as a contraindication in their product documentation. Couldn’t just moving around cause pieces to break off?

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PECARN STELAR Podcast – Episode 2: Food Insecurity

EMDocs

The emDOCs.net team is very happy to collaborate with PECARN STELAR (Seattle, Dallas/Texas, and Los Angeles) Node and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) in presenting high-yield pediatric topics that highlight evidence based medicine with solid research. 2015 Feb;135(2):e296-304.

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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

Their spread has coincided with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s “sepsis bundle quality measure” (SEP-1) going live in 2015. This was despite a higher intensity of care in the visible-alert patients, who had more rapid responses, ICU transfers, code blues, intubations, and initiation of dialysis.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

A 2015 Nature (Pediatric Research) paper by Nils J. Bergman summarizes a body of research that confirms the benefits of sleeping on the belly. Research by Collett et al (2018) shows that, despite some improvement in PP by 18 months, the deformations persist beyond 36 months. This may not be true for infants.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.10.24

Taming the SRU

Indication - skeletally mature patients with a radiographically documented femur fracture (hip to knee) Contraindications: Patient refusal Allergy to local anesthetic Infection over site of planned injection Obtunded/uncooperative patient Crush injury No available provider or space Medication: 0.5% Staphylococcus spp., and Pasteurella spp.

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Academic Emergency Medicine: An oxymoron or opportunity?

RCEM Learning

Author: Damian Roland / Editor: Govind Oliver / Code: / Published: 06/02/2020 There are many old and unhelpful stereotypes in medicines. On paper Emergency Medicine (EM) research is flourishing. Clearly the issues are multifactorial but it is interesting to note that enthusiasm to be involved in research is not in short supply.