ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. 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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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. You are well prepared for this. Lead your room well. If the resuscitation does not go as well as you wanted, learn from it and move on.

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Downeast Emergency Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. The interviews were conducted and recorded via Zoom and the recordings were then transcribed verbatim for analysis.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. The Wells’ Criteria for DVT can help risk stratify [2,3]. If the patient’s Wells score is ≤ 0, DVT is nearly clinically excluded and no further immediate lab or ultrasound is necessary. mg/kg for 24 hours.

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ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. “A In 2023 we must move beyond that title.

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Downeast Emergency Medicine

APRIL 26, 2021

Trauma patients between the ages of 18-90 years had to have either had one documented episode of hypotension (defined as a systolic BP <90 mmHg) or tachycardia (>100 beats/minute) to be included in the study. Patients were excluded if they were not transported to a participating trauma center or had cardiopulmonary arrest.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. A rural ED staffed by a well-trained EP is an essential resource in small communities that may be otherwise lacking in readily available healthcare resources.

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