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

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Now, for selected patients, emergency physicians can leverage low and non-rising high sensitivity troponin values and a low HEART score (composed of history, ECG, age, risk factors, and troponin level) to implement outpatient follow-up plans safely, within a few hours. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021.

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Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED

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Pain can be associated with a friction rub on cardiac auscultation, a pericardial effusion on a bedside echocardiogram, or diffuse ST elevations on an EKG. CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain–United States, 2016. Up to two-thirds of rib fractures are missed on initial chest radiographs. doi:10.1111/pme.12830