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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full March 15, 2011 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Trauma Reports Supplement
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Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Applications
You are nearing the end of a busy shift in your emergency department (ED) when pre-hospital providers arrive with your next patient. They bring in a 69-year-old male with a chief complaint of headache and chest pain. Emergency medical services (EMS) activated him as a "code STEMI" in the field. He is hypertensive, diaphoretic, and complaining of a headache and chest pain on arrival. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full February 28, 2011 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Facial Trauma: Challenges, Controversies, and Therapeutic Options
Our faces play a role in almost every part of our lives. The structure and components of the face are involved in our ability to eat, speak, and see, and often are the features first noticed when we meet someone. -
Escitalopram for hot flashes
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Herpes zoster vaccination rates and incidence of shingles
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FDA Actions
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Rifaximin for IBS without constipation
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Boost capacity, slash LWBS rate with POD triage system
With volume on the increase and a leave-without-being-seen (LWBS) rate already at 5%, ED administrators at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento in Sacramento, CA, knew they needed to come up with a way to get patients moved through the ED more expeditiously at least until a planned expansion of the ED took place, but in early 2008, that was still more than a year away.