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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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He completed residency in emergency medicine through Emory while training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, Dr. McCormick served as an emergency physician at Northside Hospital. In the Atlanta region, we had AMC, one of the largest hospitals in the region closed. Overburden the other hospital systems.

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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

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We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation. There are five sets of domains.

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ACEP Council Tackles Key Issues During Philadelphia Meeting

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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 (..)

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

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Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. Added benefit would accrue when a pediatric patient avoids CT images, thereby decreasing the potential risk for a subsequent cancer. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

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. Pediatr Emerg Care. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo). 88, 1327-1344.e2.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

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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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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

1 The letter detailed ED physician stories, highlighting the preventable harms from boarding, crowding, long waits, staff shortages, burnout, and the disproportionate impact on behavioral health and pediatric populations. Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings. 6 It’s time to bring the measure back.