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Medical Malpractice Insights: Excellent documentation supports standard of care and avoids lawsuit

EMDocs

Chuck Pilcher, MD, FACEP Editor, Medical Malpractice Insights Editor, Med Mal Insights Excellent documentation supports standard of care, avoids lawsuit Vertebral artery CVA leaves patient disabled. Code Stroke is called and he is seen by a neurologist within 10 minutes. Takeaways : Document! Could more have been done?

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The Broselow-Luten System

Pediatric EM Morsels

He, along with Dr. Bob Luten, a PEM physician in Jacksonville, FL , designed the Broselow-Luten color-coded length-based system to help estimate a child’s weight, and thereby offload the cognitive burden of medication dosing and choice of equipment sizes in pediatric resuscitations. .” Available at: [link] (Accessed: 26 October 2023).

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Healthcare Providers’ Role in Preventing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse 

American Medical Compliance

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimated that improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs exceeded $100 billion from 2016 to 2023. Providers must ensure that patient records accurately reflect the services provided and that coding accurately represents these services.

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ECG Blog #366 — Diltiazem didn't work.

Ken Grauer, MD

Figure-2: I've color-coded P waves from Figure-1 according to P wave morphology ( See text ). NOTE: For clarity — I've color-coded P waves in the long lead II rhythm strip according to morphology. A DDENDUM ( 3/1/2023 ) — Additional material relevant to today's case: How Covid-positivity in today's case may affect the heart.

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REBEL Cast Ep119: A Discussion with Scott Weingart on the CT FIRST Trial

RebelEM

Back on June 1 st , 2023, Swami wrote a blog post on REBEL EM titled, The CT FIRST Trial, Should We Pan-CT After ROSC? REBEL EM Blog, June 1, 2023. Resus 2023. Back on June 1st, 2023, Swami wrote a blog post on REBEL EM titled, The CT FIRST Trial, Should We Pan-CT After ROSC? Available at: HERE Branch KHR et al.

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HIPAA, PHI, and Law Enforcement in 2023

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

On April 11, 2023, the HHS published a notice on upcoming new rules to add greater protection to reproductive health care because of new state laws passed due to the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. You can even call and talk to your patient and document this. New HIPAA rules proposed by Health and Human Services (HHS).

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ECG Blog #388 — Why Does Lead V1 Look Funny?

Ken Grauer, MD

The "good news" — is that we clearly see sinus P waves in ECG #1 , that document conversion to sinus rhythm ( ie, upright P waves in lead II that precede each QRS complex with a constant and normal PR interval ). A DDENDUM ( 7/29/2023 ) : I summarize KEY features regarding Idiopathic VT in Figure-4.

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