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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: May 25th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Garreth Debiegun is an emergency physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and clinical assistant professor with Tufts University School of Medicine. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. JAMA 2021 * Zi et al.

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

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Our Indiana ACEP colleagues have helped us all as emergency physicians in championing the passage of state legislation mandating a physician leading a hospital’s emergency department to be physically present in that hospital.

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Ethics: Crisis Standards of Care Simulation

AENJ: Current Issue

A simulation-based learning (SBL) experience was designed as a critical access setting where CSC are in place and three diverse, medically complex patients in need of critical care present to the hospital where one critical care bed remains open. 2021), to read in advance. Cardona et al. Cardona et al.,

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. After graduation they began working at a high-volume, high-acuity critical access hospital. The title of the talk “From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine.

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Pigtail Catheter vs Large Bore Chest Tube for Pneumothorax

RebelEM

The weighting from spontaneous pneumothorax was nearly 55% for drainage duration, 77% for complication rates, 96% for hospital length of stay, and 100% for recurrence rates. Pigtail catheters are placed via guidewire with seldinger technique which is strikingly similar to central venous access and may increase procedural competency.

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

ACEP Now

Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. Gaddis is a “PGY-37” who has stepped away from full-time employment after a 32-year full-time career in academic emergency medicine, and now works a limited number of shifts in a rural Critical Access hospital in Missouri. Accessed June 10, 2023.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia closed in 2019, a year and a half after it was acquired along with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children by private equity (PE) firm Paladin Healthcare Capital for 170 million dollars. 14 Dr. Stinson remembers what it was like to work for a PE-owned hospital early in her career. “I

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