Patients’ Wishes for End-of-Life Care Seldom Followed
Steep Medicare spending at end of life, lengthy ICU stays for patients with chronic illnesses evidence of…
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Emergency Physicians Can Help Ensure Patients Receive Quality End-of-Life Care
Identifying patients who will benefit from palliative intervention, referring them to palliative care or hospice services, and…
Photojournalism Helps Break Down Cultural, Racial Differences Between Physician and Patient
An ED physician connects with a ex-prison inmate-turned-inpatient by photographing his white supremacist tattoos Except for the…
ED Waiting Room Posters on Prescribing Pain Medications May Violate EMTALA
Statement from CMS region 4 office could have far-reaching implications for EDs nationwide On Jan. 18, 2013,…
What Will Obamacare Mean for Emergency Physicians?
Five top voices in emergency medicine talk about the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act…
How To Place A Blakemore Tube in an ED Patient with Upper GI Bleeding from Esophageal Varices
Equipment list and tips on technique for the ED physician Case A 58-year-old male patient presents to…
Welcome to ACEP Now
With a new mission and purpose, the official voice of emergency medicine is now written by ED…
Critical Decisions: Acute Otitis Media In Children
From the EM Model 7.0 Head, Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat Disorders 7.1 Ear Acute otitis media (AOM)…
ER Jingle Bells
Verse 1: Driving down the road, when something from the sky, Drifts down onto your car, and…
Oh, I wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener
Around 14 years ago, the FDA, that wise government agency that gave the thumbs up to the…