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Can This Patient Leave Against Medical Advice?

ACEP Now

ACEP has summarized these issues in its Code of Ethics: Emergency physicians shall communicate truthfully with patients and secure their informed consent for treatment, unless the urgency of the patients conditions demands an immediate response. American College of Emergency Physicians: Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians.

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Friday Reflection 44: Diagnostic Enigma

Sensible Medicine

She presents with a folder of records and codes for outside EMRs. These days, the attention is likely to be more than idle pondering but actual research. For the last 12-18 months she has been suffering from fatigue, headache, joint pain, and rashes. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

Jeff: As a quick survey of our audience before we begin, how many of you routinely encounter co-morbid psychiatric conditions in your ED patients, especially depression? Jeff: And how many of you struggle to admit or transfer patients for a formal psychiatric eval? Nachi: That would certainly be all of our listeners!

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The Silent Crisis: The impact of paediatric hospital social admissions

Don't Forget the Bubbles

This has coincided with a widespread shortage of specialist placements for children facing behavioural, psychiatric, and child protection challenges, leading to an over-reliance on the placement of these children in hospitals. Key messages Consider social determinants of health and document these in a child’s clinical notes.

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

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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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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. Sivilotti 3 , Brian H. Rowe 4 , Robert Sheldon 5 , George A. Wells 1 , and Ian G.

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – January 2024

Don't Forget the Bubbles

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. Point-of-care brain ultrasound and transcranial doppler or color-coded doppler in critically ill neonates and children. Pediatrics. Shikha A, et al. Eur J Pediatr.