Emergency Medicine Reports – January 25, 2004

January 25, 2004

• Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports: End-of-Life Care in Emergency Medicine

  The daily practice of emergency medicine involves life and death decisions. While training in emergency medicine focuses on life-saving procedures and medications, dying patients often seek care in the ED for symptom relief, psychosocial support, or a variety of other reasons. Education, experience, communication, and compassion can improve the emergency physicians ability to deliver medical care near the end of life that will serve to relieve suffering, improve communication of the patients preferences and goals of medical treatment, and improve overall care of the patient and family.

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• Esophageal Foreign Bodies in the Pediatric Population: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature

  Children who present with a history of foreign body ingestion frequently offer both a diagnostic and management challenge to the emergency medicine physician. Esophageal foreign bodies can result in significant injury to or the death of a child. What follows is a review of the literature on the subject of esophageal foreign bodies in children.

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• Sourcebook Guides You Through Final EMTALA Rule

  "EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance" from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.

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• Constant Legal Curse Hanging Over Every Decision You Make?

  Heres help from a new bookRisk Management and Ethics in Pediatric Emergency Care.

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