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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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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. Those reserves are used much more for pavilions and surgery centers in wealthy suburbs and urban areas and less so in rural areas and critical access hospitals.

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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

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ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation. In 2022, only 25 percent of the patients needing OUD treatment received it, according to the report. 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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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. Risk of brain tumor induction from pediatric head CT procedures. N Engl J Med.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Instructions on how to drain additional CSF are provided to the intrepid flight team when they arrive and the patient is whisked away to a tertiary care center with pediatric neurosurgery. Pediatr Emerg Care. 88, 1327-1344.e2.

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

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Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. One of the major areas of focus must be on the distribution of emergency physicians with opportunities within residency to have substantive rural and critical access experience.

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ED Boarding

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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. Accessed July 13, 2023. CMS website. link] Published August 13, 2021.