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Although the majority of children have structurally normal airways, normal changes occur with the child's physical maturation.
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Despite their efforts to maintain a perfect image in the press, celebrities have many of the same experiences as your everyday patients. They get sick and injured, and they go to the hospital.
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While weather-related disasters such as hurricanes or tornadoes can present some tough challenges for an ED manager, you generally have at least a few hours to prepare for the possibility of severe weather.
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The California Emergency Medical Services Authority has released an updated version of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), an incident management system to help hospitals improve their emergency planning and response capabilities.
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The ED at Boston Medical Center has reduced major mislabeling events from 47% (23/49) to 14% (4/29) in a year, thanks to a quality improvement project that kept the ED informed weekly when errors occurred.
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Caffeine abuse may be an emerging problem among young people, according to research summarized in a poster presented in October at the annual American College of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly.
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The next patient you see in your ED may be a "mystery shopper" and you won't even know it.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) final rule for Medicare payment for hospital outpatient services in calendar year 2007 contains several new wrinkles that will benefit EDs, say observers. Among them is a significant boost in ambulatory payment classification (APC) rates.
