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Natural Disasters: Hospital Management
Here is how to prepare your emergency department to successfully handle mass casualties.
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Pediatric Hematologic Emergencies
MONOGRAPH: In-depth disorders of the hemogram: red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells.
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Are ED Policies Inflexible?
Emergency department policies are neither a perfect sword nor a perfect shield.
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Legal Risks of Googling ED Patients Unclear, Cases Likely Coming
Conducting Internet searches on ED patients can be problematic, particularly when the physician does not have a clinically relevant reason for looking into the patient’s online life.
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What If Med/Mal Payout Exceeds Policy Limit?
While defendant EPs might be alarmed over threats to seize property and other assets, such threats might be legally problematic for a plaintiff’s attorney to actually carry out.
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EPs May Be Unaware of Unique EMTALA Risks Posed by Obstetric Patients
Does a pregnant patient want to leave your ED and go to a different hospital — the one at which she plans to deliver? If so, the EP faces some potentially significant legal risks.
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Best Defense Against Misdiagnosis Claim?
A look at best practices that can strengthen the EP’s defense against a malpractice suit alleging misdiagnosis of an ED patient.
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Teamwork Is ‘Huge Problem in ED Setting’
“This whole teamwork concept that the IOM is trying to promote is a huge problem in the ED setting.”
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Evaluation of Syncope in the Emergency Department
This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports covers the current landscape of syncope from the ED perspective and continues to stress the importance of physician judgment.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.