Articles Tagged With: ED
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Health System Improves Stroke-to-Treatment, Door-to-Groin Times
University of Michigan Health in Grand Rapids has dramatically improved metrics for stroke treatment, using communication tools to connect EMS teams with specialists in neurology, radiology, nursing, laboratory, and pharmacy. The improved communication makes it possible for the hospital to activate the appropriate personnel in the ED before stroke patients arrive.
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Telemedicine May Be Effective Tool for Monitoring Certain Neurological Conditions
Also, diagnosing particular disorders by video could be as accurate as in-person visits.
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Emergency Physicians, Nurses Call for End to ED Violence
Top organizations launch campaign to help protect nation's emergency healthcare workers.
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Legislation Aims to Curb U.S. Suicide Rates
Millions of dollars would be allocated toward training emergency healthcare workers to recognize high-risk patients.
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ED Doctor Waited Five Days to Enter Diagnosis
The sequence of events that led to August de los Reyes being paralyzed from the neck down at age 42 began innocuously with a simple fall from his bed at home in May 2013.
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Case Study 2: LWBS Rates Drop
Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, OR, had an ED struggling to keep up with demand for years. The ED had so many patients that its left without being seen statistics were about 8%, well over the industry average of 2%. The ED overcame this problem with the strategic use of physician assistants and nurse practitioners. -
Use the Right Doctors and the Right Data To Improve Coverage in the ED
Having the right set of ED physicians will reduce the need for specialist coverage, says Pascal Crosley, DO, vice president of CEP America and medical director at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD. The more experienced and skilled that the ED physicians are, the less often they will need to call in specialists, he says.
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ED registration time cut from 30 minutes to 15
Emergency department registrars cut average registration times from 30 minutes to 15 minutes at Irvine, CA-based St. Joseph Health. In addition, the admission financial clearance process is completed, on average, in just 15 minutes. -
Improve On-Call ED Coverage by Making it Easier on Specialists
You come to work Monday morning and hear this tale from your emergency department: A patient presented in the ED over the weekend with compartment syndrome and needed a fasciotomy, but no specialist was available. None of the available physicians had done one since medical school, so the physician who drew the short straw studied the procedure on YouTube before proceeding.
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Registrars connect patients in the ED to primary care physicians
Is your emergency department waiting room filled with patients who could be better served at a primary care physician’s office? In May 2015, registrars at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA, took on a new role of connecting some ED patients with primary care physicians.