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A child's race and ethnicity is irrelevant when it comes to treatment of pediatric psychiatric patients, correct? Not necessarily, according to a new study, which found that minority children are more likely to receive severe mental health disorder diagnoses in the ED than white children.
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A child who was involuntarily committed managed to walk out of the ED at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, right past a security guard and out the main hospital doors.
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The middle-aged man on medication for erectile dysfunction who is given beta-blockers for chest pain. The diabetic patient on glucophage who gets a CT scan with contrast.
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Here are assessment tips to use at triage if you suspect that your patient might have deep venous thrombosis (DVT):
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When a Swiss tourist came to a Tucson, AZ, ED with pneumonia, none of the ED nurses suspected that measles was the underlying cause. As a result, the patient wasn't isolated, and patients and health care workers in the ED were needlessly exposed.
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If a psychiatric patient came to your ED acting aggressively with pressured speech, you might conclude that the behavior was caused by failure to take antipsychotic medications.
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Psychiatric patients can leave your ED without warning or cause harm to themselves or someone else, says Nancy Bennett, RN, MSN, ED educator at The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain.
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"This is one of my favorite problems to 'diagnose,'" says Joan Somes, PhD, MSN, RN, CEN, FAEN, ED educator at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, MN.
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Decreased renal and hepatic blood flow. Decreased glomerular filtration rate. Decreased total body water. Increased percentage of body fat.
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If someone told you that an ED had experienced a 60% increase in volume between 2000 and 2008, you wouldn't be surprised to learn that the average length of stay (LOS) for their patients also had increased dramatically.