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Plaintiff Attorney Must Prove Signs of Sepsis Were Present at Time of ED Visit
Because sepsis can kill or incapacitate, plaintiff attorneys often argue the patient should not have been discharged until it was ruled out or treated.
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Using Your Stethoscope Could Land You in Handcuffs
Can doctors and nurses perform their duties without always looking over their shoulders?
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Current ED Management of Abscesses in Children
MONOGRAPH: Timely, appropriate management is critical to achieve the best possible outcome. The authors review the current best practice options.
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Emergency Department Observation Units
Hospitals and EDs are challenged with overcrowding, overutilization, escalating healthcare costs, and avoidable admissions. As a result, observation units have grown in numbers.
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Blast Injuries
Explosions occur in a variety of settings and have multiple causes. All emergency healthcare providers need to be aware of and prepared for blast injury patterns and the hazards that can be associated with blast incidents.
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Fresh policies and procedures, transparency fuel ED turnaround
Team building and educational outreach efforts help win staff over to push for improvement at an Arizona hospital.
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Massachusetts hospitals try to stem overdose deaths
Hospitals in Massachusetts have implemented a plan that instructs emergency providers to develop an approach to screen for substance abuse, provide brief intervention, and arrange appropriate referrals for patients who have an active substance use disorder or are at risk for developing such a problem.
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New opioid prescribing guidelines favor non-opioid alternatives
Citing a quadrupling of opioid prescriptions in recent years, the guidelines nudge providers to do more to combat the epidemic of overdose deaths.
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Sounding the Alarm About Suicide Risk
The Joint Commission urges universal screening and increased efforts to link at-risk patients to appropriate care.
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Acute Hepatitis in the Emergency Department
MONOGRAPH: Viral and drug-induced hepatitis are the most common causes of acute liver failure in adults.