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Thomson American Health Consultants offers the upcoming audio conference: The Resurgence of SARS: Why your hospital may not be as prepared as you think, on Dec. 9, from 2:30-3:30 EST.
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EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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The ED physician and trauma surgeon must have evidence-based
information on indications for emergency department thoracotomy that
can be determined rapidly, easily accessible equipment, and the ability
to recognize situations in which EDT clearly is not in the patients
best interest.
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A child comes in for an injury in a traffic accident in which others were hurt and killed. The ED clinicians take care of the physical injuries, and the patient is discharged. Still, the staff members feel uneasy about the impact of the accident on the childs mental health.
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Somewhere deep in an ED managers mind, maybe when youre feeling cynical at 3 a.m., the patients who left without being seen (LWBS) might seem like a blessing. After all, your ED is too busy, and they probably didnt need emergency care in the first place.
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The fast track in the ED at Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, NC, is designed to keep everyone in the ED moving, not just those seen in the minor emergency care unit (MECU), says Pat Stark, RN, BSN, nurse manager for the ED.
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Far too many emergency physicians are complacent about the use of lumbar punctures following a negative computed tomography (CT) scan to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage in a patient with high-risk headache (worst ever or thunderclap headache), some experts say.
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The Screening Tool for Early Predictors of PTSD (STEPP) is the first method available for emergency physicians to quickly and effectively assess the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), says Nancy Kassam-Adams, MD, associate director for behavior research at TraumaLink, a pediatric trauma research center based at Childrens Hospital in Philadelphia.
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Question: What does the final EMTALA rule say about taking time to consult with the patients personal physician?
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The nations efforts to vaccinate ED staff and other frontline health care providers against smallpox hit a serious bump when some people developed serious heart problems after the vaccination, but the concerns were unwarranted, states the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
