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This is the third part in the ED Legal Letter series on abdominal pain. The first two parts detailed common presentations of adult abdominal pain. Part four will discuss pediatric abdominal pain. This part discusses ectopic pregnancy and trauma in pregnancy.
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Dont miss SARS: What U.S. Hospitals Must Learn from the Canadian Outbreak on May 6, 2003, from 2:30-3:30, ET, an audio conference program presented by Thomson American Health Consultants.
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If you fail to give aspirin to stroke patients in your ED, youre not following recommendations of a recent report from the St. Paul, MN-based American Academy of Neurology and the Dallas-based American Stroke Association.
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How do you make big changes when you lack major resources? It may be as simple as looking to your long-term ED nurses.
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If you switch to a five-level triage system without examining your processes, the entire process could fail, warns Elisabeth K. Weber, RN, MA, CEN, a Chicago-based consultant who specializes in emergency services and process improvement.
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Identifying signs of abuse in an injured child is one of the worst parts of any ED nurses job. But there is another frightening possibility that you may not be aware of: If you miss a case, choose not to report your suspicions, or make a judgment call that turns out to be wrong, you could face criminal charges.
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If you dont follow recent guidelines, a patient may come into your ED with a spinal cord injury and leave paralyzed.
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Here is the case definition of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.