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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. In some cases, patients require psychiatric or psychological attention. Ann Emerg Med.

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EM Mindset: A Woman in the Emergency Department – by a Feminist

SheMD

Yes, I am a woman, yes I am a feminist, yes I am a physician, yes I am in academic leadership for a well-known emergency department… The yes’s are many, but what do I have to say that is so meaningful or useful that people would want to publish it? Sitting down to write this, I cursed myself for volunteering in the first place.

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October 2023 News from the College

ACEP Now

Urge Your Legislators to Support New Bill to Combat Boarding, Support Mental Health Access from the ED The bipartisan Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act was recently reintroduced in the House for the 118th Congress by Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). ACEP President Christopher S.

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ACEP4U: Defending YOU by Demanding an End to the Boarding Crisis

ACEP Now

This fall, ACEP will participate in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Director’s summit on emergency department boarding. ACEP helped make the summit possible by mobilizing Congress to request action from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the Leadership and Advocacy Conference in 2023.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 Acad Emerg Med. The admission LOS measure formerly reported only the median time.