ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With a quick crowdsourcing effort in collaboration with Ivy Clinicians, ACEP was able to map most of these hospitals’ new contracts and used our influence to put pressure on the administrators to be accountable and consider many of ACEP’s long-standing policies as they move forward. View the letter at acep.org/APPletter.

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Emergency Department Hospitals Operations Legal Issues 105

Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 31, 2025

However, excessive fluid administration can lead to fluid overload, which has been linked to worse clinical outcomes. It reinforces key principles in managing sepsis, including early recognition and rapid administration of antibiotics, balanced fluid resuscitation, early use of vasopressors, and steroid therapy for refractory shock.

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Sepsis Fluid Resuscitation Shock Resuscitation 59

PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

Ascension and UPenn test automatic palliative care consults Palliative care programs are sometimes pitched to administrators on the basis of their potential to reduce costs, by shortening length-of-stay or intensity of expensive and unhelpful therapies at the end of life. There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8%

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Hospice Documentation/Coding Administration Hospitals 52