ED Management – March 1, 2021
March 1, 2021
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COVID-19 Exposed America’s Healthcare Faultlines. What Now?
Healthcare leaders and policymakers are working to correct these problems. They are reaching out to underserved communities to better understand their needs and concerns.
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Leaders Plot How They Will Leverage the Lessons of COVID-19
Caregiver well-being, peer support, and accelerated technology should factor into what happens next after the pandemic.
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Tools Keep Tabs on Patients Remotely, Predicting Outcomes and Conserving Resources
Researchers developed an automated text messaging approach that can monitor patients who have been discharged from the ED. Other investigators have leveraged artificial intelligence to train an algorithm to help emergency clinicians better predict outcomes and manage resources.
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Streamlined Lyme Disease Guidelines for Frontline Providers
With the peak period for Lyme disease approaching, new guidelines help clinicians understand when to consider the ailment in patients who present to the ED, how to properly diagnosis a case, and how to treat.
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Trump HHS Eases Standards Regarding Opioid Addiction Care; Biden Admin Reverses Course
More physicians would have been able to prescribe buprenorphine and other medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, but the incoming administration reversed course.
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Experts Revisit Processes Surrounding Crisis Standards of Care
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare practitioners have observed challenges related to the implementation of crisis standards of care (CSC), a declaration that should be made only when all other options have failed. Experts report there has been a lack of consistency in such decision-making. In some cases, CSC decisions are made unnecessarily, putting patients at risk. They advise re-examining plans for CSC devised before the pandemic to incorporate recent lessons learned.