ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For the safety of staff as well as patients, interventions that interrupt escalations before they blossom into violence deserve further study. Our group from Highland Hospital has set out to understand the impact on workplace violence and patient safety of initiating a BERT in a busy, county hospital ED.

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Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Psychiatric Best Practices 52

ACEP Now

JUNE 13, 2024

ACEP will continue pushing these groups to work harder to solve boarding issues, to improve patient safety, and to protect emergency physicians.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Administration Emergency Department Psychiatric 52

EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: As a quick survey of our audience before we begin, how many of you routinely encounter co-morbid psychiatric conditions in your ED patients, especially depression? Jeff: And how many of you struggle to admit or transfer patients for a formal psychiatric eval? Nachi: That would certainly be all of our listeners!

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Psychiatric Documentation/Coding Outcomes 40

EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Another study found a 1-year post Roux-en-y ED visit rate of 31% and yet another found that 25% of these patients will require admission within 2 years of surgery. Jeff: Well that’s kind worrisome. Which again reiterates why this is such an important topic for us as EM clinicians to be well-versed in.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Sepsis Operations Ultrasounds 40

EMDocs

JULY 20, 2023

. – Inclusion criteria: Included patients aged 18 or above, who had a baseline NIHSS 10 or greater (obtained within one hour before measuring infarct volume) across 26 hospitals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Patient had to be able to be randomized between 6-24 hours after last known well.

Stroke 73

Stroke Outcomes Head Injuries Psychiatric 73

Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 15, 2023

Previously well child? “ Pregnancy was uncomplicated and he was well after birth. Physical examination: Joey is well-grown. It usually affects children between 18 months and five years old, who are otherwise well with average growth, development and physical exam. Pregnancy was uncomplicated, and he was well after birth.

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Wellness Seizures Hospitals Dehydration 103

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

It should also differentiate boarding times for psychiatric patients, who are at high risk for very prolonged boarding. What’s clear from the emerging data: our experience as clinicians as well as our patients’ is that the system is unraveling. The admission LOS measure formerly reported only the median time.

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Military Hospitals Emergency Department Leadership 98