EM Updates

JUNE 15, 2021

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is Brooklyn’s largest hospital, an academic quaternary care center with, in normal times, 711 total beds, 66 intensive care beds, and an Emergency Department that treats approximately 120,000 patients per year. On March 9, the first patient with a novel coronavirus infection was admitted to MMC.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

ACEP Calls for Action on Boarding, Corporatization, and Surprise Billing ACEP’s advocacy team has been busy this summer, advocating for emergency physicians on important issues. 2023 CPT Documentation Guidelines FAQ Updated, Expanded ACEP has updated its 2023 CPT Documentation Guidelines, expanding from 39 to 70 questions.

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ACEP Now

JUNE 14, 2024

1 As fresh challenges of the pandemic and hospital operations changed emergency medicine practice, one of the more challenging areas was the movement of admitted patients out of the first emergency department (ED). emergency departments. Another COVID casualty: The emergency department transfer process.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is critically important to document the physical findings in a plain-seeing, plain-speaking, non-judgmental manner that will not color or taint future investigations. Accurate time entries are important to document. Ballistic injuries in the emergency department. Emergency medicine practice, 13(12), 1-30.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Prehospital endotracheal intubation: rationale for training emergency medical personnel. The Journal of emergency medicine, 40(6), 661-667.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 2, 2016

Act V, scene I [Text from Folger Shakespeare Library] [Audio recording of Dramatic Reading; Chapter Vox] [Video recording of Act V, scene1] Most deaths that are brought to, or occur in, an emergency department will require, at least, discussion with the local Coroner or Medical Examiner. No "practice procedures" should be done.

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