PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

About 544,000 99292 codes were billed to CMS in 2021, according to ACCP , reportedly stable at about 10% of the total bills. Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S This is not a hot research area.) by some accounts (after HCA and the VA).

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 1901, UVA opened its first hospital with 25 beds and three operating rooms. But inside these charming historic walls is a research-driven, quaternary-care, academic, medical center. The emergency department (ED) at UVA was rebuilt in 2019 and the department had not fully optimized its operations when COVID-19 hit.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ten thousand children in the UK are operated on a year for fingertip injuries, and 96% of surgeons currently report replacing the nail plate intra-operatively. In the project’s second phase, research leads were asked to submit the written discharge material routinely provided on discharge in their institution.

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Medagadget

MAY 23, 2023

A recent study in Nature Medicine , entitled “ An automated histological classification system for precision diagnostics of kidney allografts ,” has showcased the efforts of a group of researchers who have developed an automated system that can diagnose kidney transplant rejection.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 30, 2022

Background: Somewhere between two and four percent of patients presenting to US EDs with abdominal pain have a small bowel obstruction (SBO) – those who are managed operatively (who are only 20-30%) account for 60,000 hospitalizations and 565,000 inpatient care days per year. Also joining us is Dr. Andrew Goldsmith.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 23, 2021

She is the cofounder of FOAMcast and a pulmonary embolism and implementation science researcher. Dr. Westafer serves as the Social Media Editor and research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine […] The post SGEM#316: What A Difference An A.P.P. Diagnostic Testing Differences Between A.P.P.s Reference: Pines et al.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 1, 2024

We suggest this list can help you discover relevant or interesting articles for your local journal club or allow you to keep a finger on the pulse of paediatric research. However, children who had an operation experienced improvements in behaviour, symptoms, and quality of life and had lower blood pressure. Pediatrics. Shikha A, et al.

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Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

JUNE 18, 2023

Streamlining Administrative Tasks: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs AI can automate administrative tasks, such as appointment scheduling, billing, and medical coding, freeing up healthcare professionals’ time and reducing administrative burdens.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A recent success by the ACEP was averting a decrease of our reimbursement for our 99284 E&M codes, saving an estimated $200 million for emergency physicians in 2023. If ACEP is already doing this, why be a member? ACEP has a voice for all, but its reach is limited by resources.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 4, 2024

Know your audience, and tailor your presentation to them in terms of humor, pop culture references, and dress code Err on the side of making your presentation slightly shorter than the alloted time to allow room for questions. The largest retrospective cohort study to date (Beyde et al.) shows that most will improve with empiric antibiotics.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 3, 2014

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Evaluation: Manually Operated Resuscitators (1971) Emergency Care Research Institute.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

The Fontan circulation was an operation initially developed around 50 years ago to treat tricuspid atresia. There are different potential surgical techniques that can be employed in a staged Fontan operation and the various suture lines involved can interfere with electrical conduction pathways.

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ACEP Now

JULY 8, 2024

In this case, the LLM lacks specific domain training on the CTAS score, and the predictions do not have the appropriate foundational training to operate accurately. As a mechanism for augmenting clinical operations, this approach may show value in passively collecting and feeding information into other systems.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Farrington] Rebuilding of outdated hospitals put emergency rooms on ground level with nearby X-ray service, and, ideally, sometimes closer to the Blood Bank and the Operating Rooms. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. PMID:23789199 ] National Research Council (US). Increasing public usage of EDs for care.

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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. Natural psycho-physiological responses may alter perceptions during the life-threatening event. 8, 2012 12:12 a.m.

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Cook County EM Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Further document handedness, occupation, site of injury, and thorough review of systems to evaluate for potential complications ○ Complications as distant as pneumomediastinum following air injection of the hand have been reported5,6. ➢

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Grainge, C. Developmental history.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 27, 2014

This is a cased kit of a Sparklet Resuscitator (J size), with pressure chamber, regulator, tubing, reservoir bag, flow stopcock, and funnel mask, with associated documents. He took up many clinical researches feeling that physiology should be an applied science contributing to the solution of human problems. a Yale physiologist.

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Pediatric Education

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

No specific documentation regarding the duration of the car seat testing could be identified in the medical records. Pierre-Robin Sequence) and post-operative congenital heart disease. The pertinent physical exam showed the patient was now 3.34 The diagnosis of a healthy preterm male who was gaining weight was made.

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Mind The Bleep

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Should also document presence of shunt, size and direction. One of the few exceptions would be if the patient is paralysed, e.g. for an operation. If performing an echo you should assess left and right ventricle output, myocardial performance, systemic vascular resistance, mean arterial pressure, diastolic function, and filling.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

4 Pain is the most common reason for presentation in the early post operative period. 5 Highest risk of dislocation early in the post operative course due to laxity of the soft tissue after surgery. 6 Hip flexion or adduction in the early post-operative period can cause atraumatic dislocations (typically avoided for 6 weeks post-op).

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

In fact, cannabis use has been documented for medical use dating as far back as 600 BC in West and Central Asia. Jeff: This DEA designation limits the ability to do research and obtain federal funding for such research. Synthetics were initially developed in the 1980s largely for research purposes.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Thus, if there is documented sinus bradycardia, and no suspicion of high grade AV block, at the time of the syncope, this is very useful. Syncope and cause of death were identified by codes from the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors for the risk-score system.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. Anesthesiology, 111(1), 63-71. ** Research results of airway changes while titrating propofol (similar to ED deep sedation).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

DECEMBER 9, 2024

About PICSTAR PICSTAR is a trainee-led research network open to all doctors, nurses and allied health trainees within Paediatric Intensive Care. We are the trainee arm of the Paediatric Critical Care Society – Study Group (PCCS-SG) and work with them on research, audit and service evaluation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.

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