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Whether a bite or sting results in an anaphylactic reaction, impressive
local effects, or a life-threatening systemic reaction, the emergency
physician must be able to institute appropriate and effective
treatment. Emergency physicians also must be able to recognize clinical
envenomation patterns, since some critically ill patients may not be
able to convey the details of the attack. Since all areas of the
country are represented in the envenomation statistics, all emergency
physicians should be familiar with identification and stabilization of
envenomated patients and know what resources are available locally for
further management of these often complicated patients.
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By putting in saline locks instead of intravenous (IV) lines, you save the cost of IV fluids that often are not needed, says Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD.
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This is the second of a two-part series on improving ED reimbursement under ambulatory payment classifications (APCs). This month, we cover staff physicians, supplies and medications, local medical review policies, and proper use of modifiers.
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Hospital clinicians in the United States are watching with grave concern as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) a rapidly emerging infection with unclear treatment options strikes the health care system of their Canadian colleagues.
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Crohns disease, one major type of inflammatory bowel disease, has an incidence rate in the United States of approximately seven per 100,000. Advancing biotechnological knowledge regarding this idiopathic disease has led to the development of therapies aimed at specific targets in the disease pathway.
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These drugs recently received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Screen smallpox vaccinees for cardiac factors; Unannounced surveys will be Joint Commissions norm; FDA warns of cancer drug misrepresentations; FDA revises warnings, recalls drug.
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By the time the government has mandated the bar-coding of medications, at least one drug company already will have finished its own bar-coding program.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally delivered on its promise to propose a mandatory bar code program for medications. Although pleased with the effort, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in Bethesda, MD, wishes the FDA had gone a bit further.