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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

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Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. One of the major areas of focus must be on the distribution of emergency physicians with opportunities within residency to have substantive rural and critical access experience.

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

The primary outcome was enrollment in and receiving addiction treatment at 30-days post-randomization. Additional outcomes included self-reported days of illicit opioid use, urine testing for illicit opioids, HIV risk, and use of addiction treatment services. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2021; 78(3): 434-442.[

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Estimated incidence of normal pressure hydrocephalus and shunt outcome in patients residing in assisted-living and extended-care facilities. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and intracranial pressure elevation in neurological disease.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

These stakeholders are similarly shielded in court when adverse patient outcomes, such as negligent deaths, occur under their management or when the bought-out companies are challenged for anticompetitive business practices overseen by the PE firm. Accessed August 25, 2024. Published March 15, 2020. Accessed August, 2024.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

This included multiple pathways: the nurse education professional track to increase the number of clinical and vocational nursing instructors; the nursing career pathway track to train frontline health care professionals; and special grants to support accelerated learning and expanded access to clinical residencies and specialty care rotations.11