PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. West J Emerg Med. Mental Health Revisits at US Pediatric Emergency Departments. Prolonged emergency department length of stay for US pediatric mental health visits (2005-2015).

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EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. An implementation science approach improves language access in the emergency department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Annals of Emergency Medicine. August 2016.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 22, 2024

The campaign started in the United States in 2012, in Canada two years later, and in the United Kingdom in 2016. Choosing Wisely UK was launched in 2016 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to identify tests, treatments, and procedures of questionable value. 2016 ;50(13):826-8. What is the aim of choosing Wisely?

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EMDocs

JUNE 16, 2023

And now we’re here at our destination, the place we know and love, the emergency room to talk about what we should be doing for the growing volume of children with mental health problems boarding in the emergency department.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

This month, we are sticking in the abdomen for another round of evidence-based medicine, focusing on Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery. While it was < 15% in 1990, by 2016 it reached 40%. Jeff: And we also have the AspireAssist siphon, which was approved in 2016.

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

1 In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) took additional steps to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify and define information blocking and associated exceptions. 2 Information blocking is any practice that is “likely to interfere with access, exchange, or use of [EHI].” Published December 16, 2016.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 9, 2025

.” 1 A study by van Zwieten in 2004 found that 49 percent of deaths attributed to droperidol required dosages 50 mg, magnitudes greater than typical dosages used in the emergency department (ED). It did so with varenicline on December 16, 2016 15 and canagliflozin on August 26, 2020. West J Emerg Med.

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