Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Experts Urge ED Leaders to Refocus Efforts on Antimicrobial Stewardship
Early advocates of antimicrobial stewardship tended to focus on prescribing in outpatient settings. In recent years, attention has shifted toward the ED — and there are many good reasons for this shift.
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Unusual Hepatitis Ailment Puzzles Investigators, Frontline Providers
Emergency clinicians have another novel illness to be concerned about. Investigators are uncovering a small, but growing number of unusual cases of hepatitis in young children that is putting many of these patients at risk for bad outcomes.
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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is a common cause of presentation to the emergency department. There is a wide array of clinical presentations and causes of LGIB. This article will focus mainly on acute LGIB, including small bowel bleeding, in the adult patient.
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Major Traumatic Brain Injury Can Raise Dementia Risk
Patients with brain bleeding and a long hospital stay were 1.5 times more likely to develop dementia compared to those with no injury.
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Analysis Shows Uneven Distribution of Emergency Physician Residency Programs
Although there are more programs overall today than a decade ago, gaps remain in rural areas.
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Build Emergency Care Research on Strong Regulatory, Financial Foundation
There are some notable gaps in studies of the ethics of emergency care in low- and middle-income countries, according to the authors of a recent analysis.
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Managing Lower Extremity Sports Injuries
Musculoskeletal injuries are common in pediatric patients. It is important to recognize the difference between pediatric and adult injury patterns to optimize management. The authors focus on the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of acute pediatric sports-related lower extremity injuries in the emergency department.
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May Is National Nurses Month
Leverage the many resources available to meet all your nursing needs.
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Bony Knee Injuries in Pediatric Patients
The knee is the most commonly injured joint in pediatric patients, with approximately 2.5 million sports-related knee injuries seen in the emergency department annually. Although the most commonly diagnosed injuries are sprains, strains, and cutaneous wounds, fractures can cause the most profound injuries with the greatest long-term deficits.
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Decision Support Tool Boosts Outcomes for ED Patients with Pneumonia
The authors of a new study demonstrated that when deployed in the EDs of community hospitals, an electronic decision support tool for pneumonia can improve treatment while dramatically reducing mortality and inpatient utilization.