ACEP Now

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together.

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Telemedicine Critical Access Emergency Department Hospitals 40

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. 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.

Critical Access 105

Critical Access Telemedicine Hospitals Administration 105

ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. You are well prepared for this. Lead your room well. If the resuscitation does not go as well as you wanted, learn from it and move on.

Resuscitation 98

Resuscitation Risk Management Hospitals Critical Access 98

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.

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Critical Access Hospitals Wellness EKG/ECG 40

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. Temperatures inside the cars on the track can reach 120 degrees, so heat-related illness prevention and wellness checks are a regular part of the job.

Critical Access 52

Critical Access Hospitals Wellness 52

EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. The Wells’ Criteria for DVT can help risk stratify [2,3]. If the patient’s Wells score is ≤ 0, DVT is nearly clinically excluded and no further immediate lab or ultrasound is necessary.

Ultrasounds 71

Ultrasounds Documentation/Coding Wellness EMS 71

ACEP Now

AUGUST 22, 2023

In an environment in which patients may have their entire work-up in the waiting room, or attend a critical access hospital staffed by non-emergency physicians, or lack the financial support to follow up with an appropriate specialist, a pragmatic approach to care is required.

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Emergency Department Academics Critical Access Research 98