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When a woman reported depression, migraines, and slurred speech over a period of months to Casie McMaster, RN, an ED nurse at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis, MO, she reviewed her patient's home medications.
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When patients with shortness of breath received either a partial or a full standing order set, their median treatment time decreased by 40 minutes, according to a study done at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore.
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A five-year-old boy with a fever and rash was about to be admitted to the in-patient pediatric unit at Children's Hospital Boston for dehydration and infection.
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While no one has precise numbers, the practice of human trafficking is hardly limited to third-world countries. In fact, experts maintain it is big business in the United States, with somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 people trafficked into the country each year.
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It's a problem that every ED grapples with: A patient comes in complaining of chronic pain and you give him or her a one-time prescription for a powerful narcotic with instructions to seek comprehensive treatment from a primary care provider (PCP).
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Emergency departments tend to be noisy, bright, and intensely focused on patient throughput.
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The medications your elder patient is taking can cause a worsened injury or misleading vital signs, warns Chris Hoag-Apel, RN, TNS, SANE, trauma service supervisor at Freeman Health Systems in Joplin, MO.
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The number of adult ED visits for eye-related complaints is largely limited to data on eye injuries.