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When a 40-year-old woman came to the University of California-Irvines ED for transient ischemic attack of unknown origin, the echocardiogram was done right in the ED and showed a right-to-left shunt at the atrial level.
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Do you want to improve pain management in your ED? Massachusetts General Hospitals MGH Cares About Pain Relief Initiative site offers a wealth of free resources, including current recommendations, accreditation standards, and more.
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ED nurses spend most of their time on indirect patient care but they spend very little time on tasks that could be performed by ancillary staff, says this study from the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Sports and recreation-related injuries commonly are seen in the offices of internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians. They may be the first physician to whom the injured athlete turns, or they may be referred from an urgent care or emergency department.
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Thinking outside the box enabled the manager and medical director of the Elmira (NY) ASC to not only cut the cost of their procedure for patients, but also to make the patients recovery more comfortable and quicker.
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Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have shown that hypnosis can reduce preoperative anxiety for adults undergoing ambulatory surgery.
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Our facility is managed by an outside management company. We pay them 9% of net collected revenue, plus they have 15% of the equity in the center. This seems high. Is it?
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A patient goes in to a hospital for preoperative testing and ends up with more than $8,000 charged to fake accounts in his name at stores across his state.
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Between 50% and 80% of the 609 patients in a pain study conducted by the e-Pain Research Group in Montreal, had misconceptions about the pain they could expect after surgery and about the proper way to use medications to control pain.
