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MARCH 10, 2025

You work as the medical director at a suburban, community emergency department (ED). Discussion SANE programs started in the early 1970s to provide medical forensic examinations to patients after sexual assault. You take a few days to research the role and formulate your questions. As expected, you have several questions.

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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. Ballistic injuries in the emergency department. Emergency medicine practice, 13(12), 1-30. Avoid using wounding holes in clothing or tissue as the start of cutting with shears or incising tissue.

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Military Forensics Documentation/Coding Emergency Nursing 40

ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

CASE A 30-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with left arm pain from a chronic wound. Prior to medical school, she received her MBA in Healthcare Management and currently works on health policy and outcomes-based research. Dr. Marco is professor of emergency medicine at Penn State Health Milton S.

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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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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 3, 2025

This systematic review examined 15 observational studies from around the world, exploring the relationship between increasing air pollution levels and the rate of hospitalisations and emergency department visits for respiratory illnesses in children. Among pollutants, PM2.5 was the most extensively studied in 14 of the 15 papers.

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Hospitals Emergency Department Research Forensics 88