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If you fail to give aspirin to stroke patients in your ED, youre not following recommendations of a recent report from the St. Paul, MN-based American Academy of Neurology and the Dallas-based American Stroke Association.
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Dont miss SARS: What U.S. Hospitals Must Learn from the Canadian Outbreak on May 6, 2003, from 2:30-3:30, ET, an audio conference program presented by Thomson American Health Consultants.
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This is the third part in the ED Legal Letter series on abdominal pain. The first two parts detailed common presentations of adult abdominal pain. Part four will discuss pediatric abdominal pain. This part discusses ectopic pregnancy and trauma in pregnancy.
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Hospital clinicians in the United States are watching with grave concern as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) a rapidly emerging infection with unclear treatment options strikes the health care system of their Canadian colleagues.
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This is the second of a two-part series on improving ED reimbursement under ambulatory payment classifications (APCs). This month, we cover staff physicians, supplies and medications, local medical review policies, and proper use of modifiers.
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By putting in saline locks instead of intravenous (IV) lines, you save the cost of IV fluids that often are not needed, says Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD.
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Whether a bite or sting results in an anaphylactic reaction, impressive
local effects, or a life-threatening systemic reaction, the emergency
physician must be able to institute appropriate and effective
treatment. Emergency physicians also must be able to recognize clinical
envenomation patterns, since some critically ill patients may not be
able to convey the details of the attack. Since all areas of the
country are represented in the envenomation statistics, all emergency
physicians should be familiar with identification and stabilization of
envenomated patients and know what resources are available locally for
further management of these often complicated patients.
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