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If you assume that patients complaining of headache are nontherapeutic medication seekers or chronic complainers, you risk undertriaging these patients, warns Rebekah Child, RN, MSN, CEN, CNIV, an ED nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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When guidelines for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are followed, deaths decrease by 50% and patients with poor outcomes decrease from 34% to 19%, according to a recent study.
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Do you know how to increase the likelihood that a patient will tell you about abuse? During 293 audiotaped interactions with ED staff assessing for intimate partner violence (IPV), 77 patients disclosed experience with IPV.
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Triage often is extra challenging with elderly patients, says Korene Christianson, RN, CEN, ED clinical director at Methodist North Hospital in Memphis, TN. "We are seeing a growing number of patients over the age of 65 in our ED," she says. "Finding out the 'main reason they came today' is often the biggest challenge."
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Do your trauma patients suffer longer than they need to because of delays in pain management?
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A device tested at the University of Michigan Health System was 100% accurate in identifying the proper formulations of seven intravenous drugs.
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The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) believes that within 20-30 years, most clinical pharmacy specialists will be board-certified specialists.
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Baxter Healthcare Corp. temporarily stopped manufacturing multiple-dose vials of heparin due to a spike in reports of serious allergic reactions and hypotension in patients receiving bolus doses of the drug.
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Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder, mistakenly thought to occur only rarely. However, approximately 5% of patients seen at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in the United States have this disease and it is estimated that as many as one in 2,000 Americans have narcolepsy.
