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November 2023 News from the College

ACEP Now

Expand Your Knowledge of the Business of EM Practice Essentials, an online, asynchronous curriculum developed by ACEP and EMRA, dives into reimbursement, contracts, operations and risk management, and other topics that may not have been covered in depth during medical school or residency.

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Hypertensive Emergencies

EB Medicine

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the June 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Hypertensive Emergencies: Guidelines and Best Practice Recommendations Epidemiology Etiology Differential diagnosis Prehospital care History and physical Diagnostics Treatment Acute decompensated heart failure Acute ischemic stroke Acute (..)

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Can This Patient Leave Against Medical Advice?

ACEP Now

Approved October 2023. J Healthc Risk Manag. Patients beliefs and preferences regarding doctors medication recommendations. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23:236-241. American College of Emergency Physicians: Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians. Accessed January 7, 2025. Marco CA, Brenner J, Krauss C, et al. Ann Emerg Med.

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A Social Science Perspective on Masking

Sensible Medicine

—and therefore questions of risk management , i.e. the political and social process of making decisions that incorporate risk, amidst other priorities based on collective values. Risk assessment and management is at the heart of this disagreement (see these papers to dive more deeply).

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 88: ED Evaluation of Diverticulitis

EMDocs

American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria (2023) Left lower quadrant pain. Management of colonic diverticulitis. Tips for the Medical Management of Diverticulitis. 2023 Apr 1;118(4):585-589. 2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting.

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COVID-19 and Mental Health

Northwestern EM Blog

Assessment of suicide risk in mental health practice: shifting from prediction to therapeutic assessment, formulation, and risk management. 2023, Jan 2). Lascelles, K., Gilbert, S., & Silverman, M. The Lancet Psychiatry. Gribble, R., Wessely, S., & Fear, N. What is the evidence? Richardson, J.

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IV fluids in the ED: When do we really need them?

EMDocs

2023 10 found that clinicians were 56% accurate in their assessments of patients admitted for heart failure when compared to the gold standard of blood volume measurement – a nuclear study utilizing radiolabeled red blood cells and albumin. 2023 Feb 25;14(1):211 Wang CS, FitzGerald MJ, et al. 2023 Feb;43(2):104-114.