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A patient comes to your ED with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the deadliest and least treatable form of stroke, which accounts for 15% of strokes and nearly half of the 164,000 stroke deaths in the United States annually. Right now, there is very little you can do for this patient, but that may change soon.
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If your ED hasnt switched to a five-level triage system yet, theres no time like the present, according to a report from the joint five-level triage task force of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
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Are you struggling to cut delays in getting lab test results? Lab delays can have a dramatic impact on patient flow.
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A man with a mild stomachache, a woman reporting neck pain days after a motor vehicle accident, and a teenager with an ankle injury. Would these patients be triaged as low acuity and sent to your EDs waiting room?
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Could mistakes made in your ED cause an injured elderly patient to go into fluid overload or become hypothermic? Common errors in nursing practice can be life-threatening for these patients, says Karen Hayes, PhD, ARNP, assistant professor at the School of Nursing at Wichita (KS) State University.
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When a physician asks for additional suture material for wound repair and the nurse realizes there is none left, the doctor explodes in anger.
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Failing to document the medications a patient currently is taking. Nurses mixing IV piggybacks. Storing drugs in concentrated form.
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A tracheostomy decreases the ability of the patient to communicate effectively. However, it is possible to restore voice in many patients with tracheostomy who are cognitively intact and free of laryngeal or pharyngeal dysfunction.
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Erectile Dysfunction and Visual Disturbance; Mixed News on Statins; FDA Actions
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During an 8-month period, azoulay and colleagues investigated the prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress in family members of critically ill patients in 21 French medical and surgical ICUs.
