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In the case of 'Brewster v Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center,' the appellate court of Illinois had to decide whether a hospital owes a duty to a person injured by an off-duty intern suffering from sleep deprivation due to the hospital's policy on working hours.
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With an increasing number of emergency department (ED) physicians using ultrasound, are malpractice lawsuits also on the rise? Quite the contrary, according to proponents of ED ultrasound.
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An ultrasound image shows a patient who had been shot in the chest and was not doing well. The physician thought the patient's lung was collapsed, and he put in a chest tube.
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The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 provides full privilege for information shared with a patient safety organization, with the goal of encouraging voluntary error reporting.
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In the September issue of ED Legal Letter, two common contract clauses - malpractice insurance and restrictive covenants--that can be harmful to the interests of an emergency physician.
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While the Plan B controversy has dominated emergency medicine news lately, there are several other ethical issues that arise in the ED from time to time and can create conflicts for ED physicians and nurses.
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The staff at the University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, is taking a proactive approach to the possibility of an avian flu or other influenza pandemic, and the ED is playing an integral role in the development of the response plan.
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The ED staff at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, MO, is justifiably proud of the Compass Award it recently received from Press Ganey Associates of South Bend, IN, for raising their patient satisfaction scores from the 36th percentile to the 96th. But they'll also be the first to tell you it wasn't easy.
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A newly opened telemedicine primary care facility in Peachtree City, GA, called Health-e-Station, will help curtail the severe overcrowding problems facing area EDs, according to its founder.
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Patients who come to EDs with minor conditions do not contribute significantly to delays and overcrowding, despite widely held beliefs to the contrary, according to a new study published on-line by the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
