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A patient with chest pain is diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease, walks out of your ED, and has a myocardial infarction (MI) a week later. Could this happen in your ED?
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If untreated, pulmonary embolism (PE) has a mortality rate of 25%-30%. Isnt that a frightening statistic?
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Would you like a simple way to reduce pain and increase satisfaction of elderly patients? Allow them to sit on reclining chairs instead of gurneys, suggests Scott Wilber, MD, FACEP, director of the emergency medicine research center at Summa Health System in Akron, OH.
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Myocardial infarctions, hypertrophy, electrolyte abnormalities, and arrhythmias both ventricular and supraventricular in origin. Would you be able to identify all of these abnormalities on a patients electrocardiogram (ECG)?
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Ten patients being held on gurneys in your EDs hallways. Four paramedics bringing in patients on gurneys, with every room full. Patients eating meals and being given baths in treatment rooms.
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After a minor fall, an alert, neurologically responsive elderly woman was brought to an ED. She told triage nurses she was taking the anticoagulant warfarin. When the patient was brought to a treatment room, she was lethargic and less responsive.
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A man walks into your ED screaming and thrashing around, and he says that he hears voices. Would you assume the patient is mentally ill?
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Ketamine makes children act crazy. The drug is more dangerous than other ED sedatives. Patients can get addicted from being sedated with ketamine.
