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

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A 2021 analysis of Epic’s sepsis model revealed atrocious false positive and negative rates. The SCREEN Trial SCREEN was a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of an EMR alert for organ failure, conducted at 45 wards of 5 hospitals in Saudi Arabia from 2019 to 2021. 2021 Aug 1;181(8):1065-1070. 2021 Aug 1;181(8):1144.

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A Simplified Approach to Managing the Difficult Airway in Children

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Airway complications are also more likely to occur in the emergency department (ED) than in the operating theatre. It can also able to be applied in multiple scenarios, not just the operating theatre, and it more accurately depicts real-world practice. This mitigates many of the psychological barriers and facilitates better teamwork.

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

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A study in Denmark in 2021 explored barriers to effective resuscitation in over 900 in-hospital resuscitations across six hospitals in Denmark. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Challenging hierarchy in healthcare teams – ways to flatten gradients to improve teamwork and patient care. 2021; 164: 70-78.

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AI May Allow Physicians To Regain Their Humanity

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Her use of teaming as a verb aptly captures the fast-paced, flexible nature of teamwork in the ED. AI started to make its mark in the ED by maximizing the efficiency of certain tasks like patient triage, clinical presentation diagnosis, mortality prediction, clinical decision making, and operational workflow management (see Figure 1).