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Can This Patient Leave Against Medical Advice?

ACEP Now

1,2 Approximately 2 percent of emergency department (ED) patients in the United States leave prior to evaluation or AMA. Understanding Against Medical Advice, Informed Consent, and Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Emerg Med Clin North Am. BMC Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med. Acad Emerg Med.

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ToxCard: Second Generation Antipsychotic Overdose

EMDocs

1,6 Agitation, delirium, psychosis, and hallucinations can occur and may be incorrectly attributed to concurrent psychiatric illness. 2 Lipid emulsion has been considered due to the lipophilic nature of atypical antipsychotics; however, studies are limited on this topic, and this is an area that could benefit from further research.

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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. Intensive Care Research , 1 (3-4), pp.60-64. Ann Emerg Med. His name is Ben. Burgart, A.M.

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Problem Drinking Remains a Big Problem

ACEP Now

2 Although the opiate epidemic is certainly worthy of attention, it accounts for only about half of the number of deaths annually and only around a quarter of the number of emergency department visits annually relative to alcohol use. He returned to the emergency department, and you had the great privilege of saving his life.

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Sedation for the agitated adolescent

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In paediatric emergency care, addressing the challenge of adolescent agitation is a complex and evolving task. Dr Elyssia Bourke, based at Ballarat Base Hospital, is actively engaged in this area through her ongoing PhD research. Psychosocial Factors : Family dynamics, social pressures, and environmental stressors.

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

EB Medicine

This month, we’re moving into uncharted territories for the podcast… we’re talking psychiatry Nachi: Specifically, we’ll be discussing Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the emergency department. Jeff: And how many of you struggle to admit or transfer patients for a formal psychiatric eval?

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Predictors of parental anxiety in a paediatric emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Although research from preoperative and primary care samples indicates that parents experience anxiety surrounding their children’s medical procedures, less is known about parental anxiety and factors that contribute to higher parental anxiety in the ED. Background Children experience significant anxiety in the paediatric ED.