Documentation/Coding Hospitals Outcomes 
Mount Sinai EM
AUGUST 7, 2024
Initially, data suggested that the use of ultrasound during arrest increased pauses between compressions which worsens outcomes. Rapidly intervened-upon cardiac tamponade in PEA during cardiac arrest has significantly higher hospital discharge rates. survival to hospital discharge rate.
EMDocs
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Chuck Pilcher, MD, FACEP Editor, Medical Malpractice Insights Editor, Med Mal Insights Excellent documentation supports standard of care, avoids lawsuit Vertebral artery CVA leaves patient disabled. Code Stroke is called and he is seen by a neurologist within 10 minutes. He undergoes a thrombectomy, but his outcome is poor.
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The Trauma Pro
JUNE 21, 2024
This situation was first documented in a paper published in the 1960s, which noted that VIP patients have worse outcomes. References: “ The VIP Syndrome”: A Clinical Study in Hospital Psychiatry. Who is a VIP? It may be a celebrity. A family member. Or even a colleague. Or the President of the United States. Cleve Clin J Med.
PulmCCM
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally called on hospitals to develop robust sepsis care programs to systematically identify and treat sepsis, track outcomes, and improve care delivery. ” What is that, a sepsis Stasi? Unlike strokes and STEMIs, sepsis has no gold standard for diagnosis.
EM Literature of Note
JANUARY 16, 2025
Literally every practicing physician working in a hospital environment knows there is a broad spectrum of skill, approach to acute illness, and level of risk-tolerance. These attributes manifest in different ways, and, in emergency physicians, one is the differing likelihood two clinicians might have to admit same patient to the hospital.
RebelEM
DECEMBER 23, 2024
There has been ongoing study about the clinical significance of these effects, as well as whether and for whom LR might provide meaningfully better clinical outcomes ( Myburgh 2013 , Self 2018 , Semler 2018 , Self 2020 ). saline affect hospital-free days by day 30? Cross-validation was performed.
Ken Grauer, MD
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Figure-2: I've color-coded P waves from Figure-1 according to P wave morphology ( See text ). NOTE: For clarity — I've color-coded P waves in the long lead II rhythm strip according to morphology. Microvascular dysfunction — cardiac vasculitis — intravascular thrombosis.
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