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Biosite (San Diego, California) and Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) signed an agreement for Beckman Coulter to manufacture and Biosite to commercialize a b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) test for use on Beckman Coulters immunoassay systems.
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When the pediatric lumbar puncture (LP) is traumatic, confusion arises as to whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cells are from infection or from contaminating blood. To better identify patients with and without CSF pathogens, Mazor and colleagues studied 57 children ages 1 month to 13 years who had traumatic LPs (> 500 red blood cells [RBCs]/mm3) during evaluation for suspected meningitis.
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Since its first clinical description in 1829 by Sir Charles Bell in England, Bell's Palsy has been surrounded by therapeutic controversy and its etiology has been shrouded in mystery. Recent literature, however, features evidence-based trials that enable emergency department clinicians to recommend more advanced treatment than ever before.
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 61-year-old woman who was being treated with flecainide for arrhythmia. Her tracing was interpreted as showing sinus tachycardia with 1° AV block, with the conduction disturbance being seen best in lead V1. How would you interpret this ECG?
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The following are brief summaries of nine abstracts presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) 2003 Annual Meeting in Boston. Editorial board members who attended selected these topics because of their interesting content and importance to the field of emergency medicine research. Because these are abstracts and not peer-reviewed publications, results and conclusions should be considered preliminary.
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Philadelphias Presbyterian Medical Center, part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, is dramatically reducing the number of accounts on hold in its DNFB and OPEX queues and freeing up the revenue they represent with multidisciplinary teamwork and the development of review and monitoring reports on Excel spreadsheets.
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Health care organizations aware of their need for systemic change but short on the capital required increasingly are taking a two-pronged approach: Make some quick revenue-producing hits first, and then implement the longer-term solutions. Thats just one of the strategies in place at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas.
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Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule appears to be going surprisingly well, thanks to extensive planning and a public already used to being informed about privacy practices. Thats the consensus of a sampling of access managers who spoke with Hospital Access Management about their hospitals experience with the regulation.
