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Washington Post
... not possible," said Clifton W. Callaway, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh who is leading the project. ...
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![]() Older Adults Given Dangerous Medications during Emergency Visits
eMaxHealth
William J. Meurer, MD, MS, assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neurology and the study's lead author, ...
Inappropriate prescriptions from ER visit could harm older patientsExaminer.com
Some Older ER Patients Are Getting the Wrong Medicines, U-M Study FindsPR Newswire (press release)
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![]() Dr. Jim Augustine Elected to Chair Position with The Joint Commission
PR-USA.net (press release)
Dr. Augustine is a nationally recognized speaker and educator in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department Operations, State and Regional Disaster ...
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![]() Update: MedQuist Wins Contract with Detroit Medical Center for Emergency ...
PR Newswire (press release)
This award expands MedQuist's existing relationship to include services for Emergency Medicine documentation for six of DMC's major organizations: ...
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![]() Mini ultrasound revolutionizing emergency medicine
abc7news.com
... is one of a new wave of miniaturized ultrasounds bringing what was once a high-end hospital technology onto the front lines of emergency medicine. ...
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![]() Insurance woes for some at YRMC ER
Yuma Sun
What it comes down to is the cost of doing business, said Phillip Richemont, MD, chair of the department of emergency medicine at Southwest Emergency ...
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![]() Working Together
Salina.com
In the near future, the breadth of emergency medicine is certain to widen, Mullikin said, as EMTs are given more responsibility in the field. ...
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![]() Kessler Joins Visiting Physicians Association's® Kentucky Office
PR-USA.net (press release)
From 1982 to 1987, he gained valuable experience in Emergency Medicine and EMT/Paramedic Training while working in the Suburban General Emergency Room, ...
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![]() St. Joseph's Hospital Partners With WVU's Dept. of Emergency Medicine
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BUCKHANNON -- St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon has partnered with West Virginia University's Department of Emergency Medicine. ...
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![]() Registration Begins for R Baby Foundation's Annual Mother's Day Run/Walk in ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
... medical care that gives them the best chance at life," said Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP, Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. ...
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![]() Caring for a Child's Unique Needs: PA Health Network Plans Pediatric ED
HealthLeaders Media
Richard MacKenzie, MD, LVHN chair of emergency medicine, says the existing ED at LVH-Cedar Crest cares for 13000 children a year. The demand for pediatric ...
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![]() Mercedes-Benz History: Motorsport is Mercedes-Benz Automotive History
eMercedesBenz (blog)
Organisational processes applied to pit stops in motorsport even serve as improvement models in emergency medicine. People and cars are the protagonists of ...
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![]() Radiation Hazards Illustrate Need For Industry-Wide Safety Response
Health Affairs (blog)
Editor's Note: In addition to Peter Pronovost (photo and biography above), authors of this post include Julius Pham, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine ...
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![]() The Impact of the SGR
MedPage Today (blog)
While the declining Medicare reimbursement has been bad for Emergency Medicine, it's been catastrophic for primary care and other office-based cognitive ...
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![]() Ready to respond in ER
Montreal Gazette
Villeneuve is a pharmacist at the Montreal General Hospital with a specialty in emergency medicine. He had just started his shift when the Dawson victims ...
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![]() Virtuosant Technology, Inc. Appoints Dr. Emilio S. Belaval as Chief Medical ...
Earthtimes (press release)
... Rico School of Medicine, his Internal Medicine Internship at Yale New Haven Hospital, and his Emergency Medicine Residency at Boston Medical Center. ...
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![]() Annual Cat Care Conference Slated at CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital for April 3
Colorado State University News (press release)
Emergency medicine by Dr. Lauren Sullivan: What constitutes and emergency for a cat? What should cat owners do in various emergencies? ...
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![]() Riverwoods Urgent Care Uses Smartphone Technology to Connect Patients with ...
PR.com (press release)
Emergency medicine physicians developed iTriage and co-founded Healthagen – a privately held company headquartered in Lakewood, CO.
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![]() Emergency medicine in the dental practice
Dentistry IQ
The cover story for this issue is on emergency medicine for the dental office by Dr. Stanley F. Malamed. Dr. Malamed is recognized as the foremost expert on ...
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![]() Team of hometown doctors join Sequoyah Memorial Hospital crew
Sequoyah County Times
He is currently completing his residency in emergency medicine at Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He has served Sequoyah Memorial's patients ...
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![]() NCHD shortage concern
Irish Medical News
Apart from reiterating calls for an increase in the number of consultants in emergency medicine, reconfiguration of hospital acute services, ...
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![]() With them all the way | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/11/2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
... to Richard P. Shannon, chair of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine, and Roger A. Band, assistant professor of emergency medicine.
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![]() Registration Begins for R Baby Foundation's Annual Mother's Day Run/Walk in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
... medical care that gives them the best chance at life," said Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP, Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. ...
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![]() Reports summarize suicide research from OS Gunnarsdottir and co-authors
Behavioral Health Central (blog)
Gunnarsdottir and colleagues published their study in Emergency Medicine Journal (Risk of suicide and fatal drug poisoning after discharge from the ...
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Ann Emerg Med
Denim clothing reduces venom expenditure by rattlesnakes striking defensively at model human limbs.
(Dec 2009)
Placing Emergency Care on the Global Agenda.
(Feb 2010)
Acad Emerg Med
Alternatives to the conference status quo: summary recommendations from the 2008 CORD Academic Assembly Conference Alternatives workgroup.
(Dec 2009)
Service versus education: finding the right balance: a consensus statement from the Council Of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors 2009 Academic Assembly "Question 19" working group.
(Dec 2009)
Emerg Med Clin North Am
Management of acquired bleeding problems in cancer patients.
(Aug 2009)
Early identification of shock in critically ill patients.
(Feb 2010)
Am J Emerg Med
Case report and review: Potts disease and epididymal tuberculosis presenting as back pain and scrotal mass.
(Feb 2010)
Practice variation in the management for nontraumatic pediatric patients in the ED.
(Mar 2010)
Pediatr Emerg Care
Charges and complications associated with the medical evaluation of febrile young infants.
(Mar 2010)
Eur J Emerg Med
Utilization of a UK emergency department by care home residents: a retrospective observational study.
(Dec 2009)
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis: a case series, review of the literature and update of management.
(Feb 2010)
JAMA
Role of early fluid resuscitation in pediatric septic shock.
(Sep 1991)
The use and clinical importance of a substrate-specific electrode for rapid determination of blood lactate concentrations.
(Dec 1994)
N Engl J Med
Prevention of myocardial damage in acute myocardial ischemia by early treatment with intravenous streptokinase.
(Nov 1985)
Emergency management of blunt trauma in children.
(May 1991)
BMJ
Organisation of vascular surgical services: evolution or revolution?
(Aug 1994)
Influence of general practice opening hours on delay in seeking medical attention after transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and minor stroke: prospective population based study.
(2008)
Prehosp Emerg Care
Coronary perfusion pressure and return of spontaneous circulation after prolonged cardiac arrest.
(Jan-Mar 2010)
Trauma care training for National Police nurses in Colombia.
(Jan-Mar 2010)
Air Med J
Medically appropriate use of helicopter EMS: the mission acceptance/triage process.
(Jan-Feb 2007)
Supraventricular tachycardia in a patient with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: conclusion.
(Mar-Apr 2009)
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Links to other web pages related to Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases.
The Casualty Care Research Center prepared this series of real-life-based risk scenarios.
The Centers for Disease Control has established a Bioterrorism Program to ensure the rapid development of federal, state, and local capacity to address potential bioterrorism events.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control notifies clinicians of serious ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats.
The Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for managing and coordinating Federal medical responses to major emergencies, including those resulting from terrorism.
Documents and resources to facilitate response planning for a terrorist incident
eMedicine CBRNE
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Evaluation Of A Biological Warfare Victim
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Evaluation Of A Chemical Warfare Victim
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Glanders and Melioidosis
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Incapacitating Agents, 3-quinuclidinyl Benzilate
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Incapacitating Agents, Agent 15
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Incapacitating Agents, Cannabinoids
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Incapacitating Agents, LSD
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Incendiary Agents, Magnesium and Thermite
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Incendiary Agents, Napalm
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Incendiary Agents, White Phosphorus
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Irritants: Cs, Cn, Cnc, Ca, Cr, Cnb, PS
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Lung-Damaging Agents, Chlorine
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Lung-damaging Agents, Chloropicrin
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Lung-damaging Agents, Diphosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Phosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Toxic Smokes: Nox, Hc, Rp, Fs, Fm, Sgf2, Teflon
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Nerve Agents, G-series: Tabun, Sarin, Soman
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Nerve Agents, V-series: Ve, Vg, Vm, Vx
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Plague
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Ricin
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Urticants, Phosgene Oxime
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Vesicants, Mustard: Hd, Hn1-3, H
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Specialist Registrar, Emergency Medicine Mid & West. 13/11/2009. SPR Acute Medicine Locum Job Shro... Specialist Registrar, Respiratory Medicine Shropshire. 25/02/2010 to 30/04/2010. SPR Acute Medicine Locum Job Shro. ...
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The Fire Department as Urgent Care « The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
In the near future, the breadth of emergency medicine is certain to widen, Mullikin said, as EMTs are given more responsibility in the field. Soon, he said, they will be able to perform some treatment, such as suturing wounds, ...
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Project to get transplant organs from ER patients raises ethics ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... In the hope of expanding a controversial form of organ donation into emergency rooms around the United States, a federally funded project has begun trying to obtain kidneys, livers and possibly other body parts from car-accident victims, heart-attack fatalities and other urgent-care patients. Using a $321000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, the emergency departments ...
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“Spice” Incense Smoked, Leading to ED Visit « The ACUTE CARE Blog ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... Cache County health officials say at least six people have been treated in the emergency room for stomach pain after smoking incense that's being used as a drug. The substance is commonly known as “spice.” It resembles dried cannabis and is legal to sell, but is marketed as incense. Substance abuse experts say the material is composed of mostly synthetic ingredients that have widely unknown ...
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Emergency Medicine Conference « Health Articles Library
Health Articles Library
The larger Emergency Medicine Conference is announced months before the event and is held in an arena with a locale that is favorable for most emergency physicians to travel to. The conference depends on a large turnout to ensure ...
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Theraputic Hypothermia and Hospitalists « The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS. Poll. View This Poll · polls. Flickr Photos. windom er room 2 · windom er room · windom er entrance · windom er desk · Vandalia ER Desk ...
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Evaluation of Farm Tractor-Related Fatalities « The ACUTE CARE ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... Out of the 3940 cases on which a death examination and/or autopsy was performed between the years 2000 and 2007 at The Konya Branch of Forensic Medicine Council, 86 (2.2%) of the death cases were caused by tractor accidents and are included in this study. The ages of the victims varied between 3 and 80 years old with a mean age of 31.7 ± 22.3. Sixty-eight (79.1%) of the cases involved males ...
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Registrar Emergency Medicine | Jobs 4 Doctors
Jobs 4 Doctors
TTM has a requirement for a Locum Registrar Emergency Medicine to work for 3 weeks shift in Navan Hospital. Please contact Richard Morton or Siju Paul.
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Are ER doc's emergency medicine concerns being heard?
Untitled
As the healthcare reform behemoth continues to limp forward now's the time for ER physicians to turn up the heat on their elected representatives.
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BCM receives accreditation for Emergency Medicine Residency ...
Baylor College of Medicine News
HOUSTON -- (March 4, 2010) -- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has granted accreditation for an Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine with the initial plan for all training to occur ...
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WebNotes in Emergency Medicine: Severe Acute Asthma "Status ...
WebNotes in Emergency Medicine
After a while, without emergency assistance, they start tiring. Very quickly, very very very quickly in fact, oxygen levels crash, carbon dioxide levels reach unsustainable levels leading to severe acidosis; and the whole system ...
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Emergency Medicine Expert Witness On Aortic Stenosis Medicolegal ...
Expert Witness Blog
Emergency Medicine Expert Witness On Aortic Stenosis Medicolegal Pitfalls :: Expert Witness Blog.
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Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: TEDMED talk on wireless ...
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
Real time data capture and transmission of this information onto your peripheral handheld device is going to revolutionize the entire spectrum of preventative medicine, primary care, inpatient care, and emergency medicine. ...
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Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: Paucis Verbis card ...
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
I practice emergency medicine at SFGH with an academic niche in technology how it can transform the landscape of medical education. I am also a columnist for ACEP News on "Tricks of the Trade" and an active member of the Clerkship ...
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SPR Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine Locum Job Bury St Edmunds ...
Locum Jobs Vacancies UK Doctors Medical NHS
SHO, HO Acute Medicine Locum Job ... Senior House Officer, Medicine Suffolk. 08/03/2010 to 21/03/2010. SHO, HO Acute Medicine Locum Job ... Senior House Officer, Medicine Suffolk. 09/03/2010 to 18/03/2010. SPR Emergency Medicine, Acute ...
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Senior ER Patients Getting Wrong Medicines
Disabled World
A University of Michigan study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine says that it is common for patients 65 and older to receive potentially inappropriate medications when treated in an emergency room. ...
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Emergency Medicine Blogs » The Poison Review
The Poison Review
The Poison Review is a critical update and evaluation of recent scientific literature, news stories, and cultural events related to the field of medical toxicology.
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Emergency Medicine Physician Jobs « Health Articles Library
Health Articles Library
To acquire one of the many emergency medicine physician jobs, one must go through a great amount of training. After completing high school, a prospective emergency care physician must attend a four-year college and receive a bachelor's ...
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Name the five stages of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease seen on radiography of the hip.
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1) Cessation of growth at capital femoral epiphysis causing a smaller femoral head epiphysis and widening of the articular space on the affected side.2) Subchondral fracture visible as a linear radioluceny within the femoral head epiphysis.3) Resorption of bone.4) Reossification of new bone.5) The healed stage
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