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EPs May Be Unaware of Unique EMTALA Risks Posed by Obstetric Patients
Does a pregnant patient want to leave your ED and go to a different hospital — the one at which she plans to deliver? If so, the EP faces some potentially significant legal risks.
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Best Defense Against Misdiagnosis Claim?
A look at best practices that can strengthen the EP’s defense against a malpractice suit alleging misdiagnosis of an ED patient.
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Teamwork Is ‘Huge Problem in ED Setting’
“This whole teamwork concept that the IOM is trying to promote is a huge problem in the ED setting.”
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Evaluation of Syncope in the Emergency Department
This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports covers the current landscape of syncope from the ED perspective and continues to stress the importance of physician judgment.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.
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Interdisciplinary mistrust, communication breakdowns cited in survey of ED handoffs
Emergency physicians point to duplicate orders, other problems related to unclear timing on transfer of care.
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Travel history key to picking up on signs of bubonic plague
Health officials caution that symptoms of plague can mimic other types of infections.
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Poor Planning, Communication Hindered Ebola Patient Care
A panel doles out the blame for misunderstood roles and inadequate drills.
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Dental Emergencies in the ED
There are more than 2 million dental-related visits to the emergency department every year. Non-traumatic dental conditions alone lead to an estimated 4000 visits per day to emergency departments in the United States.
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National Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Tracheostomy Placement in the United States
Tracheostomy use rose over the last two decades until 2008 in the United States and was associated with an increase in discharge to long-term care facilities with a concomitant decrease in hospital length of stay and hospital mortality.