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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. A rural ED staffed by a well-trained EP is an essential resource in small communities that may be otherwise lacking in readily available healthcare resources.

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Red Leg in the Heartland of America: A Rural Physician’s Approach to the Patient with a Potential DVT

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However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. The Wells’ Criteria for DVT can help risk stratify [2,3]. If the patient’s Wells score is ≤ 0, DVT is nearly clinically excluded and no further immediate lab or ultrasound is necessary.

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Gradually Circling Around the GRACE Project’s “Reasonable Practice”

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In an environment in which patients may have their entire work-up in the waiting room, or attend a critical access hospital staffed by non-emergency physicians, or lack the financial support to follow up with an appropriate specialist, a pragmatic approach to care is required. Accessed July 14, 2023. About SAEM.

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

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5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. In 2023 we must move beyond that title. Accessed June 10, 2023.

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ED Boarding

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What’s clear from the emerging data: our experience as clinicians as well as our patients’ is that the system is unraveling. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023.