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Ethics: Crisis Standards of Care Simulation

AENJ: Current Issue

A simulation-based learning (SBL) experience was designed as a critical access setting where CSC are in place and three diverse, medically complex patients in need of critical care present to the hospital where one critical care bed remains open. Incorporating a CSC simulation looked to address this knowledge gap.

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

ACEP Now

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. This process required at least a full day.