EMDocs

JUNE 22, 2023

As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. Did I mention that we only had one unit of blood in the hospital for emergent release? It was an ordinary night, and I was asleep in the on-call room.

Resuscitation 96

Resuscitation Ultrasounds Critical Access Documentation/Coding 96

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 30, 2024

ACEP Now : Boarding What obstacles exist in Congress to address hospital boarding? We don’t incentivize experience in our systems and our laws – both the provider’s experience as well as the patient’s experience, so when it comes to hospital boarding, it falls right in line with that. ACEP MEMBER TIMOTHY C.

Telemedicine 40

Telemedicine Critical Access Emergency Department Hospitals 40

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In addition to 7 commendation resolutions and 12 memorial resolutions, the following non-bylaws resolutions were adopted: 19- Scientific Assembly Vendor Transparency (as amended) 20- Emergency Medicine Research Mentorship Network (as substituted) 21- Mitigation of Competition for Procedures Between Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians and Other Learners (..)

Academics 52

Academics Critical Access Emergency Department Pediatrics 52

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia closed in 2019, a year and a half after it was acquired along with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children by private equity (PE) firm Paladin Healthcare Capital for 170 million dollars. 14 Dr. Stinson remembers what it was like to work for a PE-owned hospital early in her career. “I

Hospitals 69

Hospitals Radiology Radiology Administration 69

ACEP Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Drivers and crews spend months at a time on the road and they travel through rural areas, where only critical access hospitals may be nearby. But the job goes beyond the obvious care provided after a wreck. Dr. Stanton has managed everything from muscle aches to injuries, norovirus outbreaks, and even crew member cardiac arrest.

Critical Access 52

Critical Access Hospitals Wellness 52

AENJ: Current Issue

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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.

Critical Access 40

Critical Access Hospitals Wellness EKG/ECG 40

Downeast Emergency Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

329 participants were enrolled at an urban teaching hospital over a period of four years. 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. ROSENBERG ET AL.

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Leadership Hospitals 52

RebelEM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The weighting from spontaneous pneumothorax was nearly 55% for drainage duration, 77% for complication rates, 96% for hospital length of stay, and 100% for recurrence rates. Similarly, pigtail catheter placement may be accessible to more clinicians, which is ultimately better for patient care, especially those at critical access hospitals.

Outcomes 52

Outcomes Hospitals Research Critical Access 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 10, 2021

After graduation they began working at a high-volume, high-acuity critical access hospital. She and her husband Neil met at medical school. They both matched to the same emergency medicine (EM) program. After a few years they moved back to New York.

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Academics Critical Access EMS Hospitals 40

EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The facility does not have ultrasound (US) availability at the time of the patient’s presentation, as the sonographer comes to the hospital only 2 days a week. However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. The patient is concerned about a potential DVT.

Ultrasounds 71

Ultrasounds Documentation/Coding Wellness EMS 71

Downeast Emergency Medicine

APRIL 26, 2021

Four level-1 US trauma centers participated in the study where the inclusion criteria were trauma patients who were within 2 hours of their injury and were transported to the trauma center from either the field or another hospital. The primary outcome was head injury-related death in-hospital within 28 days of injury.

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Head Injuries Administration Outcomes Seizures 52

ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. Gaddis is a “PGY-37” who has stepped away from full-time employment after a 32-year full-time career in academic emergency medicine, and now works a limited number of shifts in a rural Critical Access hospital in Missouri.

Head Injuries 52

Head Injuries Emergency Department Research Pediatrics 52

Taming the SRU

MARCH 14, 2023

After a several week NICU stay for prematurity, the infant has been generally healthy and this is his first trip back to the hospital since discharge. Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. He has a weak cry and you notice bulging fontanelles.

Seizures 52

Seizures Emergency Department Pediatrics Critical Access 52

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

Our Indiana ACEP colleagues have helped us all as emergency physicians in championing the passage of state legislation mandating a physician leading a hospital’s emergency department to be physically present in that hospital.

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Emergency Department EMS Critical Access Hospitals 98

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

Hospital crowding and ED boarding have been longstanding and persistent crises for more than two decades, yet have progressively worsened over the COVID-19 pandemic.2 Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings. Here’s what the government can do to impact the hospital crowding and ED boarding crisis.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Military Emergency Department Leadership 98

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This year we reviewed ten recent publications, provided some critical appraisal of the studies and then discussed if the evidence would be applied differently in a rural or critical access hospital compared to a tertiary or urban centre. You can download a copy of our slides at this LINK.

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Critical Access Hospitals 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

She’s there because your hospital is under-resourced, has injury or illness not thought related to gravidity, is too “sick” to make it to OB Labor/Delivery, or you’re trying to get OR to open. In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available.

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