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The Pause- a recognition of a life

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In most Emergency Departments, staff are allotted little of that scarce resource, time, to begin processing what has just occurred. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ 23 (2), pp.

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August 2023 News From the College

ACEP Now

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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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

ACEP Now

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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The Emergency Department Admitting Team: A Crisis Response to an Unprecedented Surge of Critically Ill Patients During COVID-19

EM Updates

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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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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.