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EDs Need Processes for Transfer of Pediatric Mental Health Patients
ED visits by children and adolescents with mental health disorders are unique in many ways, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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EDs Are Getting Clarity on State Abortion Laws
After the Dobbs decision, clinical practices changed in some EDs in states with abortion bans. The changes did not come about directly because of state laws, per se, but more so over uncertainty about how the laws could be interpreted.
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OB Emergencies Pose Patient Safety, Legal Risks
Patients with pregnancy complications presenting to EDs with little or no obstetric services may require transfer to another facility. This situation poses multiple risks for emergency physicians.
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ED Nurses Lack Knowledge of Legal Implications of OB Cases
Staffing challenges and low birth volumes are leading health systems to close their obstetric services, particularly in rural areas. More than one-third of counties nationwide have become “maternity care deserts” with no birth centers or obstetric hospitals and no obstetric providers.
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AMA: Burnout Is Causing an Increasingly Serious Physician Shortage
In a related development to the rollout of the CDC’s new “Impact Wellbeing” program, the American Medical Association is warning that physician burnout is causing well-trained clinicians to leave their medical careers, leading to a physician shortage that is about to get much worse.
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To Activate the Cath Lab?
The ECG in the figure was recorded on a patient with new chest pain that began one hour earlier. How would you interpret this ECG? Should the catheterization lab be activated, given the history and this ECG?
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Health Worker Burnout Is a Crisis; CDC Calls for Science-Based Steps to Improve Worker Well-Being
It is hardly a news flash to providers and staff in the ED that they often work long hours in a highly stressful environment, but according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the levels of fatigue and burnout that all healthcare workers are experiencing have reached crisis levels, and administrators there are calling for urgent action to address the problem.
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Tirzepatide Injection (Zepbound)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved tirzepatide for chronic weight management. The drug previously was approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes under the trade name Mounjaro.
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Time of Day Affects the Probability of Antibiotic Initiation for Hospitalized Patients with Sepsis
In this retrospective cohort study of patients with hospital-onset sepsis, the probability of antibiotic initiation was lowest at shift changes and gradually declined overnight compared to during the day shift.
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Antibiotic Stewardship vs. Diagnostic Stewardship for Reducing Unnecessary Antibiotics in Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
A statewide quality study compared antibiotic stewardship to diagnostic stewardship for hospitalized patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria. It found that reducing urine cultures decreased unnecessary antibiotic prescribing better than antibiotic stewardship.