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While politicians, analysts, and policy-makers discuss and debate big-picture solutions to the nation's health care problems, locally crafted community health initiatives have been steadfast in their efforts to connect uninsured and medically indigent people to health care services and health insurance.
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States are looking at making program restorations, improvements, and expansions for acute and long-term care that were not possible in the tough economic times of the last several years.
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Every child in Wisconsin will have access to affordable health insurance starting Feb. 1, 2008 through a sweeping restructuring of state health programs put in place by Gov. Jim Doyle.
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Children with febrile illnesses might have more serious outcomes than you expect, according to new research on 322 children presenting with fever who were discharged from a pediatric ED.
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Pregnant women who come to the ED with abdominal pain often are misdiagnosed and undergo unnecessary appendectomies, says a new study.
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If a child is in septic shock, there is no question that they require rapid fluid resuscitation, with 20mL/kg of bolus intravenous (IV) fluid given within five minutes, according to guidelines from the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM).
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When faced with a septic pediatric patient, what you do can affect whether this seriously ill child survives.
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Would you be shocked to learn that a large number of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia are dying because certain interventions aren't done in the ED?
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At Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, ED nurses revamped their triage process due to crowded waiting rooms causing delays in clinical interventions ...
