The emergency department
Ultrasonography in the emergency department
... Scope of practice for EM POCUS The EM physician is tasked with the initial evaluation and management of the patient with cardiopulmonary failure. Use of EM POCUS is an essential tool in this process, just as it is for ...
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Buprenorphine in the emergency department
... RESEARCH Buprenorphine in the emergency department more likely to be in formal treatment 1 month later. 9 Our study was different in that our protocol did not have any special training for doctors or nurses ...
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Depersonalization In The Emergency Department
... pieces of feedback below: "The ER staff needs to take time with students to explore their feelings after a death. I witnessed a very young woman patient who presented in cardiac arrest. Though it was clear that she ...
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The Patient with Asthma in the Emergency Department
... Abstract Asthma is a highly prevalent disease that presents commonly to the emergency department (ED) in acute exacerbation. Recent asthma treatment guidelines have added content dedicated to the management ...
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The Agitated Patient in the Emergency Department
... The Agitated Patient in the Emergency Department E. Bradshaw Bunney, MD, FACEP On day 1 this 22 yo male is brought to ED for strange and unruly behavior at home. His mother had brought him in because he had ...
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Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department
... hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of ...effective emergency care for ...of Emergency Care in the US Health ...within emergency and trauma care systems vary locally, regionally, ...
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Supporting Communication in the Emergency Department
... A clinical setting in which effective communication is imperative for the timely delivery of patient care is the emergency department (ED). The ED plays an important role within the health system. It is the ...
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Screening for Delirium in the Emergency Department
... of death and other health deficits occurred within six-months following a missed diagnosis of delirium in the emergency department (ED). Those with delirium who were not accurately diagnosed in the ED had a ...
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Patient Safety in the Emergency Department
... The emergency department (ED) is generally the department with the high- est patient load within the entire health care organization and is characterized by a high degree of ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... the emergency physician must be prepared to respond to the emotional, cultural, procedural, and legal issues that are an inevitable part of caring for ill and injured chil- dren who ...of Emergency ...
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Parental Presence in the Emergency Department
... Non-invasive ventilation, CPAP and BiPAP, appears to be an eVective addition to standard treatment for acute exacerbations of obstruc- tive airways diseases and pulmonary oedema. It seems to be a safe, readily applied ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... the Emergency Department abstract The American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Emergency Physicians, and Emergency Nurses Association have collaborated to identify practices and ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... When emergency clinicians are faced with an imminent child death in the emergency department (ED), they must carry out many complex tasks. They must treat a patient experiencing an acute and evolving ...
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Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department
... hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of ...effective emergency care for ...of Emergency Care in the US Health ...within emergency and trauma care systems vary locally, regionally, ...
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The Emergency Department Occupancy Rate: A Simple Measure of Emergency Department Crowding?
... The EDWIN is calculated as follows: ⌺n i t i /N a (B T ⫺B A ). The numerator of the EDWIN is the sum of the Emergency Severity Index triage categories (t i ) of all active patients (n i ) in the ED. ED patients ...
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The difficult airway in the emergency department
... Our difficult intubation rate was 4% while our failed intubation rate was 0.7%. This compares with 2.7–12.3% cited in the emergency medicine literature [5–9, 15] and 0.13–4% in the anaesthesia literature [1–3]. ...
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Ophthalmology Guidelines for the Emergency Department
... As the underlying cause is inflammatory there will be more injection so the eye will look red (as in the image below) and there may be other signs of orbital disease (proptosis, limita[r] ...
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Approach to syncope in the emergency department
... Transient loss of consciousness (blackouts) management in adults and young people 2014. de Ruiter SC, Wold JFH, Germans T, et al. Multiple causes of syncope in the elderly: diagnosti[r] ...
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Reducing Costs in the Emergency Department
... – Reduce or Utilize urgent care and APPs for non-urgent visits. – “Frequent Fliers”[r] ...
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Impact of 24/7 Emergency Department. Pharmacy Satellite on Emergency Department Operations
... Executive Summary Beginning in the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) established a satellite pharmacy in the emergency department (ED) in its Ann Arbor hospital. This was done ...
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