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Its finally here, and its mostly good news. The government recently released the final rule of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), and the 262 pages offer many long-awaited clarifications that mean you no longer have to worry so much about issues such as when you must deliver emergency care within 250 yards of your hospital.
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The Baltimore-based Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) lists these highlights of the final Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) rule:
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Health care providers have access to plenty of flowcharts and algorithms designed to guide the treatment of patients with particular diagnoses, but many of them arent designed for use in the ED. What good is a flowchart for pneumonia if you dont know whats wrong with the patient yet?
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A new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in Washington, DC, urges EDs to create systems in which staff vaccinated for smallpox can be called up quickly in the event of an outbreak.
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For cancer patients who have exhausted all available treatment options, Phase I research trials of new oncology drugs may be their only hope. But does that hope come at too high a price?
