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The following are examples of fever discharge instructions provided to parents at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas:
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Abdominal pain in female patients can pose a diagnostic challenge to emergency physicians. There are a number of emergent clinical conditions that must be recognized in a timely fashion to reduce morbidity and mortality in these patients.
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Trauma is the leading cause of death in patients between the ages of 1 and 44 years and is the fifth leading cause of overall deaths in the United States.
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Patients with chronic pain can be some of the most difficult patients to deal with. They are often miserable and demanding, and their quest for pain relief can lead to addiction.
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The authors of this issue discuss three types of drug-resistant bacteria that can colonize or infect emergency department patients. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and, to a lesser extent, vancomycin-resistant enterococci are known to most emergency physicians.
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The agents available for use in pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) have expanded considerably over the last 20 years.
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A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine formally confirms what many ED managers already know: Patients who are admitted to the ED on the weekends do not receive the same level of care as those admitted during the week.
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The availability of group and individual counseling for hospital staff following two shootings within eight months of each other in Blacksburg, VA, was invaluable, says Mike Hill, RN, the ED director at Montgomery Regional Hospital, which treated 17 victims of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University.
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When Mike Hill, RN, the ED director at Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA, reported to work at about 7:30 a.m. on April 16, 2007, he noticed a large number of people in the trauma room. Although he didn't know it yet, "They were working the second victim of the first shooting" at Virginia Tech University.