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Timothy C. Peck, MD – Full Interview

ACEP Now

Dr. Peck: Right here in Indiana and District 9, I have several critical access hospitals that are part of the consolidation effort of other systems. Those reserves are used much more for pavilions and surgery centers in wealthy suburbs and urban areas and less so in rural areas and critical access hospitals.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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Between deployments, Dr. McCormick earned his Master of Business Administration from National University and medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. DR. PECK: Right here in Indiana and District 9, I have several critical access hospitals that are part of the consolidation effort of other systems.

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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. Garreth Debiegun is an emergency physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and clinical assistant professor with Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

2][3] If earlier treatment with TXA is better, would there be benefit in its administration in the prehospital setting? Association between prehospital tranexamic acid administration and outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury. If so, could this be done safely? These questions are asked in the first paper that we reviewed.

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Rosenberg and colleagues took a qualitative approach when investigating barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of ED-initiated buprenorphine programs in critical access hospital EDs across Maine.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

25 Wesley Barnett had heard disturbing stories about the firm staffing his hometown critical-access ED as he was nearing the end of residency at the University of Kentucky, so he founded an independent physician group to try to take back the contract.

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

ACEP Now

Now, many PID patients are treated and released after ED administration of appropriate antibiotics to eradicate possible infection by Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis , often with added treatment for anaerobic microbes. Acute pyelonephritis has become a disease for which outpatient management is often feasible and appropriate.