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As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) addressed the issue of patient flow, "system" was once again the magic word.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report is all about the future. However, when it comes to information technology and ED managers, "the future really means catching up with the past," says one expert.
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ED managers who read these headlines in the three Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on emergency care probably will feel as though they could have written them themselves.
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The infant or child with a fever is a common occurrence in an emergency department (ED).
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A 75-year-old woman with a chief complaint of chest pain is brought to a university emergency department (ED) by a city-run emergency medical systems (EMS) service.
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Warfarin (Coumadin) is the most commonly used oral anticoagulant. It was synthesized by and named after the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in 1948.
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Partial Liquid Ventilation (PLV) with Perfluorocarbon (PFC) has been demonstrated in animal models of acute lung injury to recruit dependent lung regions (the so-called "liquid PEEP" effect), to redistribute blood flow to better ventilated regions, to thus improve gas exchange compared with conventional ventilation, and also to facilitate the clearance of retained secretions.
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A prospective, multi-center randomized trial was performed to determine the feasibility of the semirecumbent position (goal, head of bed elevation [HOB] 45°) and its impact on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
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