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Timothy C. Peck, MD – Full Interview

ACEP Now

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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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

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.

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10 Tips for New Attending Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

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.

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Ethics: Crisis Standards of Care Simulation

AENJ: Current Issue

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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Creative Careers: Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP

ACEP Now

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.

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Red Leg in the Heartland of America: A Rural Physician’s Approach to the Patient with a Potential DVT

EMDocs

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.

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Gradually Circling Around the GRACE Project’s “Reasonable Practice”

ACEP Now

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.