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  • Vaginal Bleeding in the Nonpregnant Patient

    Abnormal uterine bleeding affects females of all ages and is a common complaint in gynecologic practice. An estimated $1 billion annually is spent on direct costs for this diagnosis, with another $12 billion attributed to indirect costs such as health-related supplies and missed employment.
  • Neonatal Emergencies

    The neonatal population (birth to 1 month of age) provides a unique and difficult challenge for diagnosis and treatment in the emergency department, and a systematic approach is critical to allow for rapid diagnosis and subsequent therapy in the setting of a potentially sick neonate.
  • Pediatric Oncologic Emergencies

    Although the diagnosis of cancer in childhood is relatively rare, with an annual incidence of 165 cases per million,
  • Trauma Reports Supplement

  • You may be giving poor care to elderly trauma patients

    If your ED patient sustained a few rib fractures, would you expect this to lead to rapid respiratory decompensation, pneumonia, and death? Minor injuries can have profound effects in the elderly, warns Avery Nathens, MD, division head of trauma and general surgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
  • Patient is suicidal? Inform all others

    If ED nurses believe a patient poses a risk of harm to themselves or others, a patient safety checklist is used for "closed-loop" communication with security, says Alexandra Penzias, RN, MEd, MSN, CEN, clinical nurse educator in the department of emergency medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA. "This ensures that all members of the ED team are aware of the patient's status and plan of care," she explains.
  • Post-arrest patient? Consider therapeutic hypothermia

    Is a cardiac-arrest patient failing to wake up and follow commands? "Therapeutic hypothermia is one of the few therapies we can offer," says Marion Leary, BSN, RN, assistant director of clinical research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Resuscitation Science in Philadelphia.
  • Some constant inpatient meds are "foreign" to ED nurses

    Editor's Note: This is a two-part series on medication safety for inpatients being held in the ED. This month, we give strategies to reduce errors with inpatient medications. Last month, we gave strategies to avoid missed dosages.
  • Should tPA be given to elderly stroke patients?

    Before ED nurses at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, MN, administered tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a man in his 80s with obvious stroke symptoms, the neurologist was consulted and also the patient's family members, says Kathie Pulchinski, RN, ED nurse manager.
  • Make elders comfortable during lengthy ED waits

    Do you treat elderly patients waiting in the ED as you would expect your own family member to be treated as if they were the only ones there?