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There has been a significant amount of confusion among ED managers and others regarding a new national patient safety goal on patient suicides, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Numerous emergency medicine experts have noted that a number of ED overcrowding and flow problems really are hospitalwide problems; few, however, have recommended running a hospital "like" an ED to solve those problems.
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The ED at Tahlequah (OK) City Hospital has been on diversion for just one hour in the past two years, says Brian Hail, RN, director of the department. According to Hail, his department has combined the good fortune of close proximity to another hospital with an array of targeted strategies to achieve such an impressive statistic.
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Hospitals are scrambling to develop a policy regarding organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) in order to be in compliance with a revised standard from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2007.
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Do you have a process in place in your ED to identify patients at risk for suicide? If you don't have one in place by Jan. 1, 2007, you won't be in compliance with a new National Patient Safety Goal that requires hospitals to assess patients at risk for suicide.
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The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has installed a new president and elected a new president-elect during the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. Brian Keaton, MD, FACEP, of Akron, OH, assumed the presidency, and Linda L. Lawrence, MD, FACEP, of Fairfield, CA, has been elected president-elect.
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More than 20 years ago, case reports appeared in the literature describing a neuromuscular abnormality that developed as a consequence of critical illness.
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Investigators at the university of amsterdam performed an extensive review of articles, retrieved via Medline, that reported ICU outcomes in very elderly patients.
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In this study, scala and colleagues compared the clinical outcomes of patients with acute respiratory failure due to COPD exacerbations and different degrees of altered levels of consciousness.