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November 2023 News from the College

ACEP Now

And in our comment letter responding to the FTC and Department of Justice’s proposed updates to health care merger guidelines, ACEP urged the agencies to finalize these changes that would bring more scrutiny to health care mergers and slow down consolidation.

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These Patients and Drugs are Commonly Involved in Drug Interactions

ACEP Now

Many common presentations to the emergency department (ED) are related to drug interactions that are commonly missed and largely preventable. 8 It is just only older patients who are at risk for drug interactions. Acad Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med. Reducing the risk of adverse drug events in older adults.

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

EMDocs

Since then, at least three separate meta-analyses 20-22 have found that on the whole, a restrictive fluid administration approach (variously defined) is at least as effective and possibly better than a liberal approach. It may be reasonable to consider IV fluid administration in patients with moderate dehydration or prolonged vomiting.