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It happens in every ED: Patients with difficult line access are stuck multiple times some as many as 10-15 times in an attempt to access an intravenous (IV) line.
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Save up to $700,000 by making this change
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Your reimbursement will change dramatically when nationally uniform facility assessment criteria are implemented by Medicare, probably in January 2004, predicts Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, president of Medical Management Resources in Jacksonville, FL. This will be huge news for the ED, she predicts.
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The growing awareness and interest in schistosomiasis among travelers to endemic areas was a topic of discussion at the recent eighth Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine. In addition, there are several new relevant publications in this area.
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Health officials in Wisconsin have confirmed 4 cases of monkeypox in the Milwaukee area in what is believed to be the first outbreak of the disease in the Western Hemisphere.
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These cases of post-travel malaria in multiple members of the same family provide important teaching points about malaria prevention in travelers, yet they raise a significant concern that resistance to atovaquone-proguanil might already be appearing.
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At the eighth conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM8) held in New York City, May 7-11, 2003, one symposium addressed envenomations, land and sea.
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Rapid antigen testing may serve as an early warning system in influenza surveillance.
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