AENJ: Current Issue

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Conflict within the ethical domain may be affected as well. 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.

Critical Access 40

Critical Access Hospitals Wellness EKG/ECG 40

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

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.

Head Injuries 52

Head Injuries Administration Outcomes Seizures 52

ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. 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.

Head Injuries 52

Head Injuries Emergency Department Research Pediatrics 52

Taming the SRU

MARCH 14, 2023

He appears well and is triaged to an ESI 4. 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.

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. Coach John Wooden was famous for focusing on the fundamentals, sometimes called “little things.”

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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