ACEP Now

AUGUST 15, 2023

A 16-year-old female presents to the emergency department (ED) after being sexually assaulted by two males at a party at her friend’s house. Failure to follow these forensic compliance provisions of VAWA can result in loss of funding for your state. She denies any complaints or injuries. What do you do? 2023;24(2):454-467.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It is 0715 hours, and you have just come onto shift when EMS calls that they are bringing in an 11-month-old female who won’t stop crying. Emergency department (ED) visits for pediatric injuries are common, and millions of children are seen each year. It was after doing so that the child began screaming.

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Forensics Domestic Violence Burns Pediatrics 52

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

billion for specialty-care rate increases, $500 million for hospital emergency-department reimbursement, at least $500 million for family planning and reproductive-health care, and $600 million for behavioral-health facilities, including some for new inpatient psychiatric beds. billion for primary-care rate increases, $1.15

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ACEP Now

MAY 6, 2023

Case A 35-year-old male is brought to the emergency department (ED) following a single-motor-vehicle collision in which two people were ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. EMS reports starring and significant damage to the windshield and show you a picture (Figure 1). Imaging and lab studies are ordered. Click to enlarge.)

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Forensics Documentation/Coding Fractures Head Injuries 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 31, 2017

work is available in flight nursing, either helicopter EMS or long-distance repatriation flights; remote worksites, critical-care transports. Those who are also trained in forensic work can work with sexual-assault cases, law enforcement, or death scene investigation and survivor counselling. If I chose not to work primarily in an E.D.,

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Emergency Nursing Sexual Assault Forensics Pediatrics 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In short, describe the simple appearance of wounds and findings, and the body’s response, without any forensic conclusions. Police officers have poor hit probability, ricochets may occur, suppressive fire may be used (“keep ‘em pinned down”), or even ‘spray and pray.” Ballistic injuries in the emergency department.

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Military Forensics Documentation/Coding Emergency Nursing 40

ACEP Now

APRIL 5, 2024

Forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Wetli of the University of Miami had conducted autopsies that he said, “conclusively showed that they have not been murdered.” Ann Emerg Med. J Forensic Sci. American College of Emergency Physicians. Forensic Sci Int. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. J Forensic Sci.

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