Taming the SRU

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

1) However, it wasn’t until the 1890s that purposeful, successful, and safe attempts to access this fluid were documented (2). 2018) Epidemiology of lumbar punctures in hospitalized patients in the United States. Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases , 45 (9), 657–663. PLOS ONE 13(12): e0208622. Glimåker, M.,

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

PPEs that OSHA mandates minimize exposure to infectious diseases, ensuring that healthcare workers are adequately protected during patient care. For example, CMS requires accurate and timely documentation of patient care to ensure proper billing and reimbursement.

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Hazardous Materials Documentation/Coding Legal Issues Patient Safety 105

Emergency Medicine Ireland

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

once conclusively shown to be a fungal infection heavyweights from the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (the ICNafp) weighed in and it became officially Jirovecii with “i”s at the end. References: Fishman JA, Gans H; AST Infectious Diseases Community of Practice. Clin Transplant.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The parents only have a copy of the discharge instructions, and your hospital and Children’s General do not share electronic health records. And, when alerted of a bounce-back to another hospital, it’s in everyone’s best interest to know about and help rectify any possible previous mistakes as soon as possible. HHS website.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 4, 2018

Guest Skeptic: Chip Lange is an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) working primarily in rural Missouri in community hospitals. Guest Skeptic: Chip Lange is an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) working primarily in rural Missouri in community hospitals. JAMA May 2017. JAMA May 2017.

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ALiEM

JANUARY 22, 2024

Fever was documented to be 102°F and was not associated with any chills or rigors. The patient during his hospital stay developed ARDS and was on mechanical ventilation for 20 days. A 40-year-old male, tailor by occupation, was brought to the Emergency Department with complaints of high-grade fever for the past 11 days.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Professional Medical Societies Call for Elimination of SEP-1 The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), along with societies for emergency medicine physicians and hospitalists, are again speaking up about the ongoing policy experiment known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1).

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ALiEM

MARCH 11, 2024

The patient’s eye lesion and symptoms resolved and he was discharged on hospital day eight. There is limited literature documenting eye involvement and pictographic examples of its presentation. During the current outbreak, ocular involvement has been used as a criteria for hospital admission.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 11, 2024

Methods This scientific statement was led by the AHA and NCS and focused on the acute and critical care management of adult cardiac arrest survivors of in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Individual topics were organized by organ system, with small groups addressing each system.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Posterior – Shortened, adducted, internally rotated 5,6 Anterior – Shortened, abducted, externally rotated 5,6 As with all dislocations, perform and document distal neurovascular exam before and after management. 8 Perform and document distal neurovascular exam. Hospitals, 2018. 5 CT if concern for occult fracture.

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RebelEM

MAY 15, 2024

Follow your hospital’s protocol (if available). High Risk Patients will need hospitalization and IV antibiotics. Clinical practice guideline for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer: 2010 update by the infectious diseases society of america, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2011, 52(4):e56-93.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 22, 2024

Repeated GP and hospital attendance might stimulate increased testing and unnecessary prescriptions. Is blood culture a useful investigation in children admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia? Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018; 103: A137-A138. Families and patients may drive over-investigation.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In one ED study, ALL cases of missed travel-related illness did not have a documented travel history in their ED note , whereas 90% of the identified travel-related illnesses had a provider documented travel history (Greenky 2022) Those who are visiting friends and relatives (VFR) are typically at highest risk. Glob Pediatr Health.

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Pediatric Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The family lived about 90 minutes away from the hospital had wanted a home birth but had decided to deliver at a hospital because of the hypertension. They declined several routine screenings and treatments in the hospital including no Hepatitis B vaccine, Vitamin K administration and hearing screening. BMC Pediatr. Pediatrics.

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EB Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: The information contained in this article comes from articles found on pubmed, the cochrane database, center for disease control, and the world health organization. Additionally, guidelines were reviewed from the american college of emergency physicians, infectious disease society of america, and the american academy of pediatrics.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The incubation period averages about 7 to 10 days, and the disease progresses through some distinct clinical stages, which I will go over in a moment. Um, with the first documented epidemic occurring in Paris in 1578. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 20, 2025

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The disease is named after Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen, who discovered the causative bacterium in 1873. Leprosaria, or leper hospitals, were established to isolate and care for people with leprosy.

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Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Epidemiology The number of animal bites presented to A&E is largely underestimated, as many who are bit don’t present to receive medical care 1 or won’t receive treatment in a hospital setting so they are not counted in the statistics for bites 2. Nevertheless, approximately 1-2% of attendances per year to A&E are from bites 3.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Bubble Wrap Plus is a monthly paediatric Journal Club reading list from Professor Jaan Toelen (University Hospitals Leuven) and Dr Anke Raaijmakers (Sydney Children’s Hospital). Parental physical disease severity and severe documented physical child abuse: a prospective cohort study. Can’t get enough of Bubble Wrap?

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

2 Beginning in January 2023, the DRC documented a record number of annual suspected cases of clade 1 mpox, specifically classified as Clade 1b. By 2024, over 17,000 suspected cases (2,863 confirmed) were documented across Africa, with the majority in the DRC. as these animals can contribute to the spread of disease.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2025

Based on available hospital resources, the patient is treated for septic shock secondary to pneumonia and an infected wound using broad-spectrum antibiotics and IV crystalloid fluids. 7-11 Injuries and communicable diseases account for over 75% of deaths among refugees. 12 Table 1.

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