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Providers of emergency medicine fully understand the importance of time when caring for potential stroke patients.
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Experts urge administrators to guard against excessive overtime, consecutive 12-hour shifts, and rotating between day and night shifts
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Have you ever had parents bring their teenage daughter into the ED to be checked out? So, how do you approach this? There are conflicting imperatives. Some are possibly your personal feelings if you are a parent yourself. Then there is your duty as a physician to provide the best care to the patient, the adolescent female. But also, there are the state laws and regulations that apply to this situation, especially if the patient is refusing an evaluation. The issues of sexual activity and parental authority are controversial and potentially divisive issues in society.
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Identifying and managing agitated pediatric patients in the emergency department (ED) can be stressful and challenging for patients, families, and providers.
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Too often, ED staff dont report violence due to onerous reporting processes, according to Terry Kowalenko, MD, clinical associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Research suggests that violent incidents occurring in EDs are far more frequent than statistics reveal.1-3
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Diagnostic errors are the most common, most costly, and most deadly medical errors, according to a recent analysis of 25 years of malpractice payouts from the National Practitioner Data Bank.1
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Consent to an intervention or treatment is generally implied when a patient comes to the ED, but there are some exceptions to this, according to Andrew H. Koslow, MD, JD, an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, and an emergency physician (EP) at Steward Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, MA.
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