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On April 10, 2008, 360 nurses in EDs nationwide began using the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program, an alcohol screening and intervention tool kit provided free by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
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The "child-friendly" environment of the pediatric ED at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Children's Hospital in Charleston is a dead giveaway as to the kind of patients the department sees.
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ED managers are well aware of the need for triage protocols during a disaster and have incorporated them into their disaster response plans. However, plans vary among facilities and within regions.
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A New York City jury has decided that a hospital did nothing wrong when it tried to examine the rectum of a construction worker who had been hit on the head by a falling wooden beam.
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Although EDstat, a new eight-bed area that was added to the ED at Reston (VA) Hospital Center about a year ago, is only open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., it has helped to improve the performance of the entire ED.
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In the wake of a series of media warnings about the deadly health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) comes a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine that outlines the emergence of its "cousin," community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA).
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Shortness of breath is a common complaint in the ED, but often is misdiagnosed, according to a new study of 592 patients.1 For 185 patients, there was clinical indecision as to the correct diagnosis, and 103 of this group had acutely destabilized heart failure.
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A 30-year-old man complained of chest pain to ED nurses at Cleveland Clinic and reported no history of cardiac disease or hypertension, but he said he was a current smoker.
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It seems like a no-brainer: When ED nurses perform procedural sedation, patients get pain relief quicker. However, several organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, have approached state nursing regulators looking to put a stop to this practice.
