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If you dont have thousands of dollars to educate your community about ED issues, a free resource is available.
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A cardiovascular surgeon develops an experimental intravascular blood oxygenation device that has the potential to eliminate the need for mechanical ventilation in severely injured patients. However, testing the device in human patients would be unethical because of the great risk of harm, and the still-unknown chance for benefit.
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Everyone talks about how the public misuses EDs and cause overcrowding, but nobody does anything about it, right? They do in Memphis, TN, where a hospital system is working to educate the public about when and when not to use the local EDs, with good results after just a few months.
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Smallpox vaccine draft guidance issued by FDA; New technology, lack of consent leads to lawsuit
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Underdosing of acetaminophen by parents and emergency department utilization; Multicenter study of emergency department visits for food allergies; Experience of domestic violence by women attending an inner-city accident and emergency department.
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Your ED can be significantly better prepared for cardiac patients if you receive more complete monitor data while the patient is en route to the hospital, say sources interviewed by ED Management.
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Irving, TX-based VHA reduced waiting times by initiating an account number at or before triage, says Jeanne McGrayne, RN, MSN, director of emergency department consulting.
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The 50-year-old drug colistin was used successfully in 14 of 23 cases of serious infections caused by multiply resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa .
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ACOEM supports immigration reform; OSHA delays enforcement of TB standard to July; Survey finds vacancies, turnover; AHIMA releases EHR standards
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Antibiotic administration for only 8 days to patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia was not inferior to 15 days of therapy.