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Program Offers Psychological First Aid, Support to Healthcare Workers Following Traumatic Events
New data show approach can deliver financial dividends to hospitals as well as emotional well-being to individuals who use the resource.
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Telemedicine Links Pediatric Emergency Physicians With Practitioners in Community Hospital EDs
What if young pediatric patients in community hospitals could be evaluated by physicians who specialize in pediatric emergency medicine without the need for a transfer?
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Rural Hospitals Connect Local Providers With Experienced Emergency Physicians
Developers note that the success of a telemedicine program over eight years offers a model for other regions struggling with severe emergency medicine staff shortages.
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Penetrating Chest Injury
Penetrating trauma of the chest can have severe and devastating consequences. Advances in ultrasound and treatment therapies have improved survival. A high degree of suspicion is indicated to identify the more subtle injuries associated with penetrating trauma to the chest.
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Skin and soft tissue infections are encountered commonly in the emergency department, presenting as a range of disorders, from uncomplicated cellulitis, impetigo, folliculitis, erysipelas, and focal abscesses to necrotizing fasciitis.
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Sudden Onset Headache
This article will outline the presentation of sudden onset headache in the ED, with a focus on important history and physical examination findings, associated differential diagnoses, and the appropriate workup and treatment of each condition.
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Does Dexmedetomidine Improve Patient Outcomes in Sepsis?
In patients with sepsis requiring mechanical ventilation, use of dexmedetomidine compared with no dexmedetomidine did not result in an improvement in 28-day mortality or ventilator-free days.
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Resilience in the ICU: A Valuable Asset for Families
Interventions that teach resilience may improve family members’ experiences in the ICU.
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Management of Pulmonary Embolism in the ICU
Small, low-risk pulmonary embolism can be treated as an outpatient procedure or with heparin infusion alone, but higher-risk pulmonary embolism cases are managed properly in an ICU. With the introduction of newer modalities of treatment, appropriate risk stratification and the choice of treatment are increasingly complex.
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Study: Individual EPs Rarely Fined for EMTALA Violations
Almost all civil monetary penalties are against facilities.