Opioid Backlash Threatens Sickle Cell Care
The well-meaning push to curb opioid prescribing could worsen healthcare for sickle cell patients....
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Emergency Medicine
Child Passenger Safety Resources in EDs
Each year in the United States, more than 130,000 children younger than age 13 are treated in EDs...
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Guidelines for Managing Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) describes the acute airway narrowing that occurs as a...
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Improving Care for Persistent Pediatric Asthma
About 7 million children in the United States suffer from asthma, and most are typically dependent...
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A Helpful Guide for CDI Prevention
According to the CDC, the mortality rate associated with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)...
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Acute Spinal Cord Injury: New Practice Guidelines
About a decade ago, the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the...
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Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke
In 2013, the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) updated...
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AHA 2013: Program Improves QOL in STEMI Patients
The Particulars: Current guidelines recommend that regional systems be implemented to optimize...
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AHA 2013: Telemonitoring Reduces Heart Failure-Related Readmissions
The Particulars: Some studies suggest that the 30-day readmission rate for patients with heart...
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Overcoming Boarding Issues With Psychiatric ED Patients
It is estimated that between 6% and 9% of all ED visits are from patients presenting to the...
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Phone Call Follow-Up and Smoking Cessation in the ED
Telephone follow-up after an ED visit is an important strategy for monitoring changes in health...
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Should ED Wait Times Be Advertised?
Throughout the country, many hospitals are advertising their services to the public using various...
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CHEST 2013: Transthoracic Chest Ultrasound for ARF
The Particulars: Chest ultrasound is often utilized in patients with clinically suspected...
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CHEST 2013: Predicting Neurologic Outcomes After Induced Hypothermia
The Particulars: Previous studies have shown that induced hypothermia (IH) helps improve...
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CHEST 2013: Hypotension in ED Sepsis Patients
The Particulars: The ability to predict hypotension among patients with severe sepsis or septic...
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CHEST 2013: Ultrasound Tops Other Diagnostics in ICU Care
The Particulars: Few studies have compared the safety and effectiveness of ultrasound with CT and...
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CHEST 2013: Electronic ICUs Provide Remote Care
The Particulars: Hospitals in the United States are increasingly using electronic ICUs (eICUs) to...
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Updated Guidelines for Heart Failure
Recently, the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and American Heart Association...
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A Look at Patients’ Willingness to Wait for ED Care
As the number of patients seeking emergency care in the United States continues to grow, so too...
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CHEST 2013
New research is being presented at CHEST 2013, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest...
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