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Noting that only about one-third of hospitals provide emergency care to heart attack patients quickly enough to meet scientific guidelines for saving lives, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has debuted a campaign called "D2B: An Alliance for Quality," aimed at helping EDs and their hospitals cut an average of 30 minutes off their door-to-balloon (D2B) times by adopting six core strategies:
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A new web-based mapping system in Loma Linda, CA, provides EDs and emergency service organizations in a wide geographical area with real-time information that helps ensure that accident and disaster victims will get to the closest available ED in the shortest possible time. Called AEGIS (Advanced Emergency Geographic Information Systems), it was developed by the Redlands, CA-based Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) for the Center for Prehospital Care, Education, and Research at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
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What causes missed diagnoses in the ED? A research team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston decided that one of the best places to seek the answer was in actual malpractice cases, so they reviewed 122 closed malpractice claims from four liability insurers in which patients had alleged a missed or delayed diagnosis in the ED. Their findings?
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This is the first in a two-part series on liability risks posed by patients who present to the ED frequently. This month, we'll cover documentation and clinical care of this patient population.
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On January 6, 2006, well-known Washington, DC, journalist David Rosenbaum had wine and dinner with his wife, then picked up his music player and headphones and went out for a walk.
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Physicians believe that most medical malpractice lawsuits are without merit.
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A recent study has revealed that 28% of 509 emergency physicians (EPs) surveyed were not at all familiar, or only somewhat familiar, with the 2004 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for the Management of Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI).
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Using bedside ultrasound to detect pneumothoraces was first introduced in a veterinary journal in 1987. In 1989, Wernecke and colleagues published the first report on the ability of ultrasound to diagnose pneumothoraces in humans.
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Apnea is a frightening event for the parent and a challenging diagnostic evaluation for the emergency department (ED) physician.
