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An ED doctor on a SWAT team? Its not as crazy as it sounds. If you visited Augusta, GA, youd see it all the time. For the past several years, the department of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Georgia has had a thriving Tactical Emergency Medicine Support (TEMS) program that includes a formal working relationship with three local SWAT teams.
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How would you like to cut your blood chemistry and cardiac screening times from 90 minutes down to 20? Well, thats exactly what the ED at Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington, KY, did by introducing point-of-care (POC) testing.
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In late-onset VAP, survival improved and costs decreased using initial coverage with 3 antibiotics. Mini-BAL did not improve survival, but decreased costs and antibiotic usage.
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This concise review makes a compelling case for a change in the healthcare workers behavior. Helpful hints including increasing the use of alcohol-based formulations to reduce the time constrains are provided throughout the article.
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Among 56,250 British ICU patients, hospital mortality rates were higher among those admitted on the weekend or at night, but the differences disappeared when confounding by illness severity and other aspects of case mix were eliminated.
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Several factors are considered to be associated with the development of nosocomial infections in the ICU. Among them, indwelling devices that directly contact the blood and mucosal membrane such as the central venous catheter, urinary tract catheter and endotracheal tube are considered to be the most responsible risk factors in the development of nosocomial infections.
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Breast Cancer and the Use of Statins; Warnings Issued for IBS Drugs; FDA Actions
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"EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance" from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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After you have security escort patient Joe Jones out of the ED for causing such a ruckus when he couldnt get any Vicodin, youre thinking youd like to avoid this obvious drug seeker in the future. So maybe you should add his name to the list of frequent flyers or the kook book your staff keep at the nursing station.