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Children under 2 years old with asthma are more likely than other children to return to the ED within seven days, according to a recent analysis of 4,228 visits.1
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If a patient comes to your ED with a fractured wrist, you'd probably triage them as low acuity based solely on their chief complaint.
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A patient is mistakenly given tenectaplase, an investigational drug, due to it being a "look-alike," with proper protocols not followed.
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Emergency physicians perform many lifesaving procedures every day; however, none is more important than effective airway management.
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Historically, all febrile infants younger than 90 days of age were aggressively evaluated and treated with empiric antibiotics until culture results were available. Although this approach ensured the highest level of sensitivity in the detection of serious bacterial infection (SBI), such evaluations were time- and labor-intensive, and created a risk for unnecessary adverse reactions to medications.
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If your patient is bleeding internally, you can know this in seconds instead of waiting for blood test results to come back by using a new non-invasive test for hemoglobin, developed by Irvine, CA-based Masimo.
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If you're the off-going nurse "handing off" a stroke patient, take the oncoming nurse to the bedside for a brief neurological exam, advises Tia Moore, RN, CEN, clinical nurse educator for the ED at University of California San Diego Medical Center.
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In a fascinating case that raises more questions than provides answers, a Louisiana appellate court grappled with the issue of whether the Louisiana Medicaid program was required to pay for the out-of-state inpatient care provided to its Medicaid enrollee in Georgia after transfer from a Louisiana hospital emergency department.
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An Ebola patient presents to an emergency department (ED) and is either misdiagnosed and discharged or is not appropriately isolated and infects others. What is the liability risk for the emergency physician (EP)?
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Is malpractice litigation a real possibility due to an error made in the emergency department (ED) that harmed a patient?