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A pacemaker is an electronic device that provides an electrical signal to stimulate the heart beat when the intrinsic pacemakers fail. The development and implementation of cardiac pacing and pacemaker generators has been well described and documented in many publications.
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Complaints pertaining to teeth are very common, and patients frequently utilize emergency departments (EDs) for their initial care. Most patients understand that definitive care must be provided by a dentist or oral surgeon, but either a lack of financial resources, inability to contact their dentist, severe pain, or acute trauma leads patients to EDs first.
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Ever present in the health care provider's training and practice is the continual responsibility to provide documentation. Although it is ever drummed into our heads that proper documentation is necessary for the purposes of billing, quality assurance, and risk management, documentation is also important in real time for the purposes of communication among caregivers. Not only must each health care practitioner record his/her own activities and findings related to a patient's care, but each practitioner also must take heed of every other provider's documentation.
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In the September issue of ED Legal Letter, two common contract clauses - malpractice insurance and restrictive covenants--that can be harmful to the interests of an emergency physician.
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The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 provides full privilege for information shared with a patient safety organization, with the goal of encouraging voluntary error reporting.
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An ultrasound image shows a patient who had been shot in the chest and was not doing well. The physician thought the patient's lung was collapsed, and he put in a chest tube.