ACEP Now

MAY 6, 2023

EMS reports starring and significant damage to the windshield and show you a picture (Figure 1). FIGURE 1: EMS Photo of damaged windshield showing star/spider web pattern from impact of occupant. Forensic investigation-motor vehicle collisions and motor-vehicle pedestrian accidents. Imaging and lab studies are ordered.

Forensics 52

Forensics Documentation/Coding Fractures Head Injuries 52

ACEP Now

AUGUST 15, 2023

First, the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 42 USC.A § 3796gg-4(d)(1) (2005), allows for sexual assault survivors to undergo medical forensic examination without reporting to law enforcement and at no cost to them. Failure to follow these forensic compliance provisions of VAWA can result in loss of funding for your state.

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Sexual Assault Forensics EMS Risk Management 52

ACEP Now

JANUARY 4, 2025

The specialty, he said, spoke to his interest in surgery and EMS in a way that family medicine did not. A closer look, though, also shows the technology of the daya bulky, two-way radio for communicating with EMS, metal gurneys, glass saline bottles, and portable ECG monitors the size of a small shopping cart. I like the excitement.

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Forensics Urgent Care Hospitals Emergency Department 52

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Case A four-year-old male is brought via EMS for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). The EMS technician expresses frustration because this is the third time in four months that she has transported the child for DKA. Discussion In 2021, 588,229 children were the victims of child abuse and neglect.

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Forensics Administration EMS Hospitals 52

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. Even though the explanation for the injury was very plausible, because it was not given initially to EMS and ED staff, CPS was contacted. They evaluated the child and debrided the burn.

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Forensics Domestic Violence Burns Pediatrics 40

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

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Violence prevention was a centerpiece of Virginia ACEP’s EM Advocacy Day in January, when chapter members met with state legislators to share stories of workplace violence and help make sure this bill received strong bipartisan support.

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Psychiatric Emergency Department Forensics Hospitals 40