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Initial Management of Patients With Medication-Overuse Headache
As part of a randomized treatment trial for medication-overuse headache, a simple protocol that provided early advice on stopping excessive medications was effective in one-third of patients, even before any prophylactic medications were started.
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Hormone Therapy and Mortality: No Overall Effect?
An evaluation of outcomes of users and nonusers of postmenopausal hormonal therapy followed longitudinally in the Danish database showed no overall difference in mortality.
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Should the Copper IUD Be Offered to Women With Heavy Menstrual Bleeding?
In this secondary analysis of the Contraceptive CHOICE Project, there was no difference in copper intrauterine device continuation rates at one year between 165 women who reported heavy menstrual bleeding at baseline and 753 women who did not.
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Life Expectancy for Americans Declines for Third Straight Year
New data highlight worrisome trends, including a rise in suicides and drug overdoses.
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Pediatric Cardiothoracic Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Part I
Ultrasound has emerged as a critical tool for use at the bedside to guide not only diagnosis but treatment strategies as well. The first part of this article focuses on the uses and limitations of cardiac ultrasound in the acute setting. Part II will include discussion of cardiac arrest, congenital abnormalities, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pneumonia.
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Episode 13: More Education, Better Provider Training Needed in Fight Against Stroke
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in America and a major cost burden for patients and healthcare systems. In this episode, Matthew E. Fink, MD, Louis and Gertrude Feil Professor of Clinical Neurology and chairman of the department of neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses how providers can boost prevention efforts, improve treatment for victims, and avoid malpractice suits.
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High Altitude Medicine: A Review for the Practicing Emergency Physician
The recognition and treatment of high altitude illness is within the core content of emergency medicine practice. High altitude illness represents a spectrum of clinical entities, ranging from common and benign acute mountain sickness to life-threatening high altitude pulmonary edema and rare but potentially lethal high altitude cerebral edema.
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Patients Link Errors to Negative Physician Interactions: Important Risk Implications for EDs
In a recent study, researchers analyzed a largely unexplored data source: What patients and families had to say about errors. Diagnostic error literature has, so far, focused mainly on clinician decision-making and healthcare system design.
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Many EPs Lack Due Process Rights; Legislation Offers Possible Protection
Without due process rights, EPs lose the ability to advocate for patients without fear of termination. Typically, contract holders form arrangements with hospitals to staff EDs; the contract holder hires EPs to perform the actual work. The hospital tells the contract holder what it wants from the EPs. Those EPs who do not comply can be fired without recourse since due process rights are waived routinely as a condition of employment.
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High-low Agreement Can Reduce Risk for Both Plaintiff and Defense
Some malpractice lawsuits carry high potential for damages because the plaintiff is very sympathetic. Yet, the EP defense team and the insurance company still believe the case is defensible and want to proceed to trial. With a high-low agreement, both the plaintiff and defendant receive protection from an excessive verdict.