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When an intruder with a rifle entered Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage on March 10, 2004, the ED staff followed the hospitals procedures, which confined him to a corridor leading to the ED and kept ED staff and patients from being harmed. The gunman eventually shot himself, became a patient in the ED, and died from his wounds.
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Under a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the nations EDs will see payment rate increases of between 3.2% and 5% for services provided.
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Although purchasing a new computed tomography (CT) scanner and associated software can cost upward of $1 million (used and/or refurbished machines may cost half that), money may not be the biggest obstacle to putting a CT scanner in your ED, say experts.
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This retrospective review, performed at Carolinas Medical Center, a large, community teaching hospital with an annual ED census of more than 100,000, looked at its experience with intravenous tPA for stroke during a 56-month time period and compared its experience with that of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke trial.
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The aim of this retrospective case series was to determine the sensitivities of three commonly obtained laboratory tests often used to determine the likelihood that a septic joint is the cause of an acute monoarticular arthritis.
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Growing concern over terrorism and the possible use of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear and radiologic devices, has drawn attention to the need to prepare for potential, large-scale radiation incidents.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention support ongoing surveillance of antibiotic susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhea isolates obtained from individuals presenting to sexually transmitted disease clinics in multiple U.S. locations.
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To evaluate the complementary roles of beta-type natriuretic peptide
and chest x-ray in the evaluation of congestive heart failure, Knudsen and colleagues studied an international cohort of emergency
department patients with acute dyspnea.
