ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Creation of an accurate database of emergency physicians living and working within a state, as well as a network of each states’ EM groups and ED medical directors would help chapter leaders disseminate relevant information, strengthen advocacy efforts, and plan regional solutions summits to focus on unique challenges.

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EMDocs

JUNE 14, 2023

This leads to an enhanced, as well as a prolonged predominant cholinergic effect. Make sure to dispose of clothing appropriately and wear PPE to prevent personal exposure. Limit exposure with PPE if returning to the exposing environment. This prevents ongoing exposure to the patient and ED staff.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Post exposure prophylaxis is recommended for household contacts, so the people that the index patient lives with, any high risk individual, and infant, pregnant women, or immune compromised individuals that have been in any sort of contact with the person with pertussis, and and a health care worker exposed without appropriate PPE.

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EM SIM Cases

JUNE 11, 2024

Organophosphate poisoning is a well-known (but rare in developed nations) toxidrome with specific antidotes available for patient treatment and survival. The team leader must identify the toxidrome and direct the team to early PPE use and patient decontamination. This case allows for its recognition and treatment to be reviewed.

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Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – Ambulance staff are­ provided with Personal Protective­ Equipment (PPE) kits, which include masks, gloves, gowns, and face­ shields. Wellne­ss Programs – Ambulance staff benefit from re­gular wellness programs designe­d to promote their overall he­alth and well-being.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What is personal protective equipment (PPE)? Click the button below to learn more about these practices, as well as other COVID-19 associated practices necessary in your dental facility. What should employers do if they have confirmed COVID-19 cases? What topics must employee training cover? Details Course length: 30 minutes.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This list is not all inclusive, there may be other challenges as well. Is PPE (personal protective equipment) readily available and appropriate for any existing job hazards? The following are a few infection control items that are to be assessed and ensure they are operating correctly for a facility to reopen.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

State and local health departments, as well as organizations themselves, may also have their own guidance. Consult state and local health organizations, as well as your organization, for specific guidance on seeking testing. Clients and staff should also be checked in on to ensure they are healthy and well.

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FEMinEM

MARCH 29, 2021

As their physician, I should be the one expressing concern about my patients well being. My patients many times have stopped to ask me how I am doing being pregnant, working on my feet all day in PPE, with COVID potentially all around me. But often throughout my pregnancy there has been a remarkable role reversal.

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Alkali burns result in liquefaction necrosis, allowing for deeper tissue injury as well as vascular injury that can lead to both local and systemic toxicity [1]. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to avoid secondary contamination. However, if PEG is not immediately available, irrigation with water can be initiated.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Because venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation implementation takes time, the process should be started early in patients who are not responding well to other therapies. The Recommendations All recommendations are designated with a class of recommendation (COR) and level of evidence (LOE). COR No Benefit, LOE C-LD.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet). Applying evidence-based medicine (incorporating medical knowledge, clinical experience, and data from systematic research) to people I knew well, made me recognize that what I do, and what makes my job satisfying, had a role.

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FEMinEM

JANUARY 26, 2021

We couldn’t exactly follow the advice of staying home or avoiding sick people, and a vaccine felt like an added layer of protection needed to bolster our PPE. Although I was painfully tired, the worry kept me from sleeping well at night. Many of my coworkers were eagerly signing up, and I followed their lead.

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EB Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: Of note, EMS providers should use face masks themselves and place them on patients as well. Jeff: Alright, so now that the EMS crew, wearing proper PPE of course, has delivered the patient, who is also wearing a mask, to the ED, we can begin our ED H&P. As a result, rapid testing modalities are recommended. Nachi: Amazing.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the emergency department, we were working our way through tonnes of PPE, masks, aprons, and gloves. You treated me so well.” Amidst tonnes of PPE, hot zones, cold zones, cancelled clinics and social distancing, mental health presentations to the ED were exploding – lockdown was devastatingly affecting our young people.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 7, 2020

Disclaimers: This episode is about influenza not coronavirus (Covid-19) Dr. Patey’s Disclaimer: I am not an expert on PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), Influenza/HINI/Coronavirus, Journal Reviews or Emergency Department management of pandemics. Paul Norman’s Disclaimer: We (Dr.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2025

She receives IV calcium gluconate and bicarbonate as well as oral potassium binders for hyperkalemia. 89 The high malnutrition rate is caused by factors such as a heavy disease burden, particularly malaria, as well as poor food consumption and inadequate infant and child feeding practices. Hypoglycemia is managed with IV dextrose.

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