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

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Factoring such, an order to transfer the patient immediately by ground or air EMS is the only actual support per se these non-physicians receive. Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state.

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SGEM Xtra: From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine

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Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. They both matched to the same emergency medicine (EM) program. After graduation they began working at a high-volume, high-acuity critical access hospital. She and her husband Neil met at medical school.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

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Emergency medicine (EM) has evolved over time and has long passed a crossroads where previously unachievable capabilities should be celebrated and shared. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021. Accessed June 10, 2023. Accessed June 10, 2023. Am Fam Physician. 2020;102:173-180. Mayo Clinic Staff.

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Pigtail Catheter vs Large Bore Chest Tube for Pneumothorax

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Advantages of Pigtail Catheter More recent trials found that patients with traumatic pneumothorax and hemothorax managed with PC compared to LBCT experienced less pain ( Kulvatunyou 2021, Kulvatunyou 2014).

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ED Boarding

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For example, EMS personnel, certified nursing assistants, and medical assistants could reduce the nursing work burden for tasks such as drawing blood, hanging simple fluids, placing IVs, and other tasks. Monthly rates of patients who left before accessing care in us emergency departments, 2017-2021. Accessed July 13, 2023.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 2 19 year old seizure A 19-year-old male is brought into your emergency department via EMS for witnessed seizure-like activity. Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. The seizure abated with rectal diazepam given by the squad. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo).