Sensible Medicine

APRIL 14, 2024

It can take several years for the full safety profile of drugs to be known. For instance, CAR-T was given to myeloma patients in 2014, but we only learned it can cause Parkinsonism in 2021. Some speakers represented patient advocacy organizations and later lashed out at me on twitter.

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Patient Safety Academics Outcomes Wellness 145

EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

This is commonly seen with Deaf patients who communicate using American Sign Language and require an ASL interpreter. Well-meaning providers who are not highly fluent may contribute to miscommunication and diagnostic errors. Certified interpreter use can improve communication and patient outcomes. December 2021.

Documentation/Coding 104

Documentation/Coding Emergency Department Federal Emergency Management Agency Best Practices 104

EMDocs

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

there were 31 recorded healthcare strikes in 2021, 39 recorded healthcare strikes in 2022, and 37 healthcare strikes in 2023 as of November 3rd. months between 1993 and 2021 to one strike every 1.4 months between 1993 and 2021 to one strike every 1.4 Trends in labor unionization among US health care workers, 2009-2021.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Research Patient Safety Wellness 98

EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They increase the risks of hypoxia and acidosis during the apneic period as well as hypotension and hypoperfusion caused by the abrupt transition from negative-pressure to positive-pressure ventilation (10). Case Resolution: The patient was placed on NIPPV. . ” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 49 (2021): 48-51.

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Emergency Department Soft Tissue Injuries Airway Management Operations 92

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For the safety of staff as well as patients, interventions that interrupt escalations before they blossom into violence deserve further study. Our group from Highland Hospital has set out to understand the impact on workplace violence and patient safety of initiating a BERT in a busy, county hospital ED.

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Psychiatric Best Practices 52

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

The weighting must strongly be on patient safety and on expanding the opportunities for board certified emergency physicians. We do not fund rural fire departments solely based on the number of fires they respond to per year, and we should not pay rural emergency physicians based solely on the number of patients they see.

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Emergency Department EMS Critical Access Hospitals 98

Taming the SRU

MAY 5, 2023

2021, Jarczak, Kluge et al. Recent meta-analyses and systematic reviews evaluating mortality in patients with septic shock reported mortality as high as 35% and 38% at 30 and 90 days, respectively (Vincent, Jones et al. 2021, Im, Kang et al. There were similar baseline characteristics and the groups were well-matched.

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