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The tragic May 9 death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez in the ED waiting room at Martin Luther King Jr. Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles, grabbed the nation's attention when it was learned that two calls were made by her family to 911 while she was deteriorating in the ED waiting room.
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Keeping up with changes in standards from The Joint Commission and the attendant interpretations can be a challenge for the most conscientious of ED managers especially when they come as quickly as they have in the area of medication management.
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More often than not, ED managers and their staffs toil in relative anonymity as they go about their daily work. However, once the recent findings of a survey by The Joint Commission at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) were made public, that was no longer possible.
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Have you ever missed a hand or wrist injury? One that comes back to you as a call from the orthopedist office on how incompetent those ER docs are?
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Rashes are common in the emergency department and may be a challenge diagnostically. The authors review rashes that the clinician cannot afford to miss.
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Imagine a black box. Into the box you could put all hospital ED related peer-review data, quality assurance materials, incident or occurrence reports, and medical error reviews.
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You might assume that when ED nurses and physicians care for VIPs -- whether this means a family friend, another physician, the hospital CEO, or a sports celebrity -- that care would be stellar.
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As former chief of emergency medicine for the largest hospital and medical treatment facility operated by the U.S. military South Korea, Sean O'Mara, MD, JD, treated many senior level government officials and dignitaries.
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Some emergency physicians argue that the most urgent needs of psychiatric patients are often pushed aside in the ED until a wide range of testing is completed for medical clearance.
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Symptoms of shunt malfunction often can be misconstrued as representing less dangerous medical conditions.
