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An ED manager must work closely with several other departments to ensure the success of a sepsis treatment program, says Tom Sweeney, MD, FACEP, vice chair of emergency medicine at Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE.
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Things were a little slower than normal on Tuesday evening, March 25, in the ED at Caritas Norwood (MA) Hospital.
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Since the hospitalist concept was introduced several years ago, proponents have lauded its potential advantages: all-day availability, greater familiarity with the hospital environment, improved clinical expertise through greater experience, increased incentives to reduce lengths of stay, and freeing up physicians with outside practices.
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In a warehouse owned by Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Broward Health, teams of nurses, physicians, and techs from the EDs at Coral Springs Medical Center and Imperial Point Medical Center, both in Fort Lauderdale, recently toured mock emergency treatment rooms as the final stage of preparation for construction of the new EDs at those Broward Health facilities.
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While the creators of the Psychiatric Transition Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, could find no pre-existing models to emulate, the successful unit they created may now serve as a model for other EDs.
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A new psych unit, located within about 100 feet of the main ED at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, has freed up precious bed hours while improving staff and patient satisfaction.
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In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2%.
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If an employee is morbidly obese, drug-impaired, or chronically sleep-deprived, you would probably suspect that this individual is at greater risk for injury or illness in the workplace. But what if the worker is part-time or hired on a temporary basis?
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death yet many of these fatalities could be prevented, according to the National Stroke Association based in Centennial, CO. Statistics tallied by this organization find about 80% of the 780,000 strokes occurring annually could have been avoided.