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Case reports describing treatments in the emergency medicine ...7thSpace Interactive (press release), NYAlthough randomized trials and systematic reviews provide the "best evidence"for guiding medical practice, many emergency medicine journals still publish case reports (CRs). The quality of the reporting in these publications has not been assessed. ... |
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Geriatric NP Supplements Senior Citizen ED CareNurse.com, VAA study published in the college's Annals of Emergency Medicine in December 2007 found the ED visit rate by people age 65 and older increased faster than any other age group over the 11-year period of the study. The report concluded that ED visits by ... |
BUSINESS PEOPLESouth Bend Tribune, INHe received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Akron General Medical Center. ELKHART — Tim Kuppler has been named president of both AL-KO ...PEOPLE ON THE MOVE Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.comall 2 news articles |
People in businessPress of Atlantic City, NJHenry L. Souto, DO, has joined with privileges in emergency medicine. Souto received his bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences at St John's University College of Pharmacy in Queens, NY, in 1990 and his medical degree from the University of ... |
LRMC awarded for achievements in emergency stroke careThe County Press, MIThis study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, is a clinical trial testing methods to increase stroke treatment and is led by Phillip A. Scott, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. ... |
For Every Blow to the Head, Quick Action Is UrgedAtlanta Journal Constitution, USADr. Rade Vukmir, an emergency department physician, clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, credits media coverage of Richardson's accident and death ... |
Cinergy Health Appoints Dr. Erika Schwartz as Medical DirectorPR Newswire (press release), NYShe served as Director of Emergency Medicine at Westchester County Medical Center (University Hospital of New York Medical College) in Valhalla, NY, a world-renowned trauma center. She has been in private practice, in Internal Medicine, for the last 17 ... |
Calgary's beleaguered MDs try new triage system to deal with delaysCalgary Herald, CanadaThe head of emergency medicine for the city's hospitals said the new system is necessary so physicians can see patients more quickly, acknowledging some Calgarians with serious illnesses are deteriorating in waiting rooms because of long lineups. ... |
Is it an emergency or just a bump on the head?Omaha World-Herald, NE“The obvious things would be respiratory distress (trouble breathing), uncontrolled pain and uncontrolled bleeding,” says Dr. David Tolo, emergency department physician and clinical service chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital ... |
Crowded Emergency Departments Pose Greater Risks For Patients With ...Science Daily (press release)“What shocked us is that these complications were not explained by what goes on in the ED, like getting aspirin or a rapid electrocardiogram,” says lead author Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology at ... |
H1N1 Flu Pandemic: UT Health Science Center at Houston Experts ...Newswise (press release)He is chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and provides emergency medical care to both children and adults at Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital ... |
Cool strategy saves runnerCharleston Post Courier, SCDr. Edward Jauch, an associate professor of emergency medicine and neuroscience at MUSC, said that 40000 Americans who suffer emergency heart attacks could be saved every year by employing the therapeutic hypothermia, yet Charleston County EMS is among ... |
Local company looks to tech to tamp down health care costsThe Bozeman Daily Chronicle, MTSwift MD charges $18 to join and $9 per month to access 38 certified emergency medicine specialists. The service links folks immediately to a doctor able to diagnose ailments and prescribe medication. After making sure the patient is not having an ... |
Board of Health has new memberClinton Herald, IAMalcom, a graduate of Des Moines University, Iowa's only school of osteopathic medicine, said she has always worked in emergency medicine. As an independent contractor she has worked in various emergency rooms in rural Iowa, including in Carlisle for ... |
AspenBio Pharma Forms Medical Advisory Board for AppyScore TM ...Market Wire (press release)The independent members of AspenBio's MAB are recognized leading thinkers and innovators in the fields of surgery, emergency medicine and health research and policy, the disciplines most directly involved with diagnosing and treating appendicitis. ... |
University of Texas Medical Branch Emergency Room Scheduled to ReopenDOTmed.com (press release), NYAt the same time, officials are recruiting staff before the August deadline -- hiring outsourcing firm EmCare to rebuild a team of 17 emergency medicine faculty that are no longer on staff, as well as replacing nurses who were laid off along with 2500 ... |
Hospitals, including S&W, work to cut ER wait timesTemple Daily Telegram, TXWait times happen for a number of reasons, said Scott & White physician Dr. Robert Greenberg, vice-chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Division of Prehospital Medicine. The backup in emergency departments tends to be more ... |
Dr. Hoskins signs four year contract with NHLCLusk Herald, WYHoskins is Board Certified in family medicine and has been exclusively practicing family and emergency medicine in Wyoming, Colorado, California and Illinois over the past thirty years. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, ... |
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1200 physicians to attend medical meet in IndiaHindu, IndiaThe three-day meet of the American Academy for Emergency Medicine in India (AAEMI), Emcon 2009 will be held in Assam in November. Briefing the media in Consulate General of India, Dr Kumar Alagappan, president of the Academy, said the AAEMI is making ... |
People in businessDubuque Telegraph Herald, IASteven M. Hopkins, DO, formerly of Dubuque, has received his doctor of osteopathic medicine from Touro University, Henderson, Nev., and has joined the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix. ... |
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Validation of a Prediction Rule for the Identification of Children With Intra-abdominal Injuries After Blunt Torso Trauma.
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The Prevalence and Factors Associated With QTc Prolongation Among Emergency Department Patients.
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Acad Emerg Med
Prescriptions for Schedule II Opioids and Benzodiazepines Increase after the Introduction of Computer-generated Prescriptions.
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Promoting Diversity in Emergency Medicine: Summary Recommendations from the 2008 Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Academic Assembly Diversity Workgroup.
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Emerg Med Clin North Am
Emergency treatment of status epilepticus: current thinking.
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Vertigo and dizziness in the emergency department.
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A systematic review of cardiovascular effects after atypical antipsychotic medication overdose.
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Acute ruptured appendicitis and peritonitis with pseudomyocardial infarction.
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Serious adverse events during procedural sedation with ketamine.
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Severe hypersensitivity reactions to corticosteroids in children.
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Plain abdomen radiographs: the right view?
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Complete recovery from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest.
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Association of volume with outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Scheduled vs nonscheduled operations.
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Delaying defibrillation to give basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation to patients with out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation: a randomized trial.
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N Engl J Med
Emergency coronary angioplasty in refractory unstable angina.
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A randomized trial of immediate versus delayed elective angioplasty after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in acute myocardial infarction.
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BMJ
Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data.
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Use of computer terminals on wards to access emergency test results: a retrospective audit.
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Prehosp Emerg Care
Assessing continued cognitive competence among rural emergency medical technicians.
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Reverse transport of children from a tertiary pediatric hospital.
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Quantifying the value of AMPA membership services.
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Health care reform has taken center stage and the Obama Administration has promised to move quickly, leaving no time to waste in making sure emergency medicine is part of what promises to be the largest overhaul our nation's health care ...
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First Batch of Swine Flu Vaccine Already Here: Company « The ACUTE ...
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The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... Chan made the much-anticipated announcement that swine flu had now reached pandemic status. She did so immediately after an emergency teleconference with flu experts from a number of countries. “The world is moving into the early days of its first influenza pandemic in the 21st century,” Chan said in Geneva, according to the Associated Press. “The [swine flu] virus is now unstoppable.” ...
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Securosis Blog | The Laws of Emergency Medicine—Security Style
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The Laws of Emergency Medicine—Security Style. Thanks to some bad timing on the part of our new daughter, I managed to miss the window to refresh my EMT certification and earned the privilege of spending two weekends in a refresher ...
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Encouraging Signs for Emergency Medicine « The Central Line
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ACEP has worked hard to include emergency medicine in the current debate. It has been a struggle, but fortunately, the ACEP-supported “Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2009″ enjoys bipartisan support in the House and Senate. ...
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An ACEP Report from the AMA Annual Meeting « The Central Line
The Central Line
In addition to the work being done by Dr. Wiler, members of ACEP's AMA Section Council continue their outstanding representation of emergency medicine at the AMA House of Delegates meeting, where final voting on a number of resolutions ...
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Drive-through medical experiment conducted at Stanford Hospital ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... In what is believed to be the first training exercise in the country, a team of health care professionals at Stanford Hospital & Clinics turned the first floor of a parking garage into a drive-through emergency room Friday morning in hopes of creating a more efficient way to treat a large number of patients during an influenza pandemic or other emergency. Dr. Eric Weiss, medical director ...
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EMS transport and chest pain complaint = desired meds? « The ACUTE ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... “When you are admitted to an emergency room with chest pains, most doctors are going to want to administer nitroglycerin right away. By putting up a strong stance and saying you need something stronger, your wish might be granted.” And what if things do go as planned? “You get the heck out of there. We had a rule that if you felt it wasn't your day, demand the AMA (Against Medical Advice) ...
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STEMI networks save lives, reduce D2B times in all regions « The ...
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That's according to Ivan Rokos, MD, of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Rokos and his colleagues are the authors of a new study on specialized regional networks' reperfusion times for patients ...
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ICD Saves Soccer Player – With Video « The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non ...
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The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS. Flickr Photos. windom er room 2 · windom er room · windom er entrance · windom er desk · Vandalia ER Desk · windom ct · More Photos. Archives ...
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FAA to impose safety rules on medical, rescue helicopters « The ...
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The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched a rulemaking effort to codify safety best practices for the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) industry. The action comes in response from continued pressure from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for new rules, accentuated by a “spike” in fatal HEMS accidents in 2008 when eight helicopters were involved in ...
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Dr.Pritesh's Blog: Atlas of Emergency Medicine :2nd ed
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Text alone is simply not sufficient for assimilating the enormous amount of clinical knowledge necessary in today's practice of emergency medicine. Volumes of well-written text simply cannot replace what our eyes experience. ...
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Immediate prehospital hypothermia protocol in comatose survivors ...
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From The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, via ScienceDirect: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves the outcomes of cardiac arrest (CA) survivors. The aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the efficacy and safety of an ...
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Emergency airway management in critically injured patients: A ...
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The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... (AAMS) Resource Guide from 2005 to 2006 was utilized to identify the e-mail addresses of all directors of U.S. aero-medical transport programs. Program directors from 182 U.S. aero-medical programs were asked to participate in an anonymous, web-based survey of emergency airway management protocols and practices. Non-responders to the initial request were contacted a second time by e-mail. ...
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“Hyper Use” of ED « The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
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This study aims to describe the population that averages one or more emergency department (ED) visits per month and compare them to the general ED population to determine if there are associated characteristics. ...
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New Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine Resources
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Textbook such as Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine and Atlas of Emergency Medicine. CME for completing video library modules. CORD Cases; Image Index. These resources are available on the Databases A-Z list and will be available on the ...
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Massachusetts, Model for Universal Health Care, Sees Ups and Downs ...
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The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS ... The authors concluded that the high rejection rates helped explain another important finding: that there has been little change in the use of emergency rooms for non-emergency treatment. Among low-income residents — defined as those with incomes of less than three times the federal poverty level, or $66150 for a family of four — 23 percent said their last trip to an emergency room had been ...
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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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What are the two first line topical treatments for jellyfish sting? Patient example: 15 yo walking along beach barefoot gets stung by jellyfish.
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Topically applied 5%25 vinegar or 40-70%25 isopropyl alcohol.
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