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‘Superstar’ Expert Witness Strategy Backfired in These Malpractice Cases
Believable, likeable EP is better bet with jurors.
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To Curb Workplace Violence, Start Small, Consider Holistic Approaches
Address employee concerns, but try to resist the latest gadgets in favor of more affordable, targeted solutions, experts say.
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To Avoid Audits, Code to the Highest Level of Specificity Documented
The resources necessary to resolve claim disputes and manage audits is extraordinary, so the best policy is to avoid audits at all costs by documenting the specifics of each case managed in the ED.
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Improving Care Coordination for Substance Abuse Patients
Approach goes one step beyond offering a warm handoff to patients, upping the odds that patients follow through on needed treatment.
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EDs Leverage Multiple Techniques to Slash Wait Times, Create Space
Hospitals emphasize the importance of tracking performance, keeping higher-level executives in the loop on key patient flow metrics.
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Aortic Dissection
Because aortic dissection is associated with high morbidity and rapid mortality, it is an important diagnosis to consider when evaluating patients with chest and back pain in the emergency department (ED).
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An Approach to Household Toxicological Emergencies in the Pediatric Patient
Patients with toxic ingestions most often will present to the emergency department as either a well-appearing patient with a known ingestion or as an ill-appearing patient with an unknown or suspected ingestion. This article will present the approach to both of these circumstances, discussing treatment and monitoring of specific overdoses as well as the initial approach to an ill child with a suspected overdose. The focus will be on common and accidental ingestions of toxins by pediatric patients.
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Vasopressin as a Single Vasopressor Agent in Patients with Septic Shock
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What Influences ICU Admission?
High ICU utilization hospitals were more likely to use invasive procedures and incur higher costs than low ICU hospitals with no difference in mortality.
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Airway Management in the Critically Ill: Challenges, Advances, and Controversies
Recent evidence and guidelines help inform best airway practice in the ICU, but challenges and controversies remain.