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Any persistent thoughts of or conversations about wanting to die or committing suicide should be taken seriously, advises the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
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If an emergency physician is arrested for assaulting a patient or for inappropriate sexual conduct, there is potential liability exposure for both the hospital where the ED is located and the emergency medicine (EM) group, says Thomas H. Taylor, a health care attorney at LaCrosse, WI-based Johns Flaherty.
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"If a hospital permits physicians to selectively take call while the hospital's coverage for that particular service is not adequate, the hospital would be in violation of its EMTALA obligation by encouraging disparate treatment."
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The public safety room at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, PA, has several special features to help ensure the safety of staff and patients in the ED, according to Harry Myers, director of safety, security, and parking. Here is his description of those features:
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On Sept. 29, 2005, the lives of the ED staff at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, were affected dramatically when a man arrested for DUI pulled a gun and shot an ED technician and two police officers one fatally.
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A gentle hug. That's the simple theory behind a treatment for congestive heart failure (CHF), using the strategy of wrapping the heart to support it and, hopefully further out, return it to improved function.
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Manufacturers of automated external defibrillators, especially those designated specifically for home use, were hit with negative study findings early this month, with a report that AEDs used at home provided no particular increase in surviving a heart attack of the sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) type.
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A novel mobile gamma camera unit designed to bring widely used scintigraphic tomography (SPECT) out of advanced radiology suites and into the emergency room and intensive care units for seriously ill patients has taken the first steps to advance beyond Sweden and enter new markets in Germany and India.
