I Called In Sick for a Shift
About 2 weeks ago a gentleman from Sydney visited Denver. He had left Sydney over a week…
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EPs Say Sunshine Act Is Good in Theory, but…
Tucked away deep within the 2,000-plus pages of the recently upheld Affordable Care Act is a tiny…
Pediatric EM Certifying Exams to Be Given in April 2013
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) will administer the…
New Free Benefit: Emergency Care Research – A Primer
Emergency medicine clinicians engaged in research are not often aware of many fundamental principles in conducting and…
Clinical Guideline Review: Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis
The ACEP Clinical Policies Committee regularly reviews guidelines published by other organizations and professional societies. Periodically, new…
The POLST Paradigm: Pretty in Pink
September 1, 2012
- Walter Limehouse, M.D., Charles W. Henrichs, M.D., and Joel M. Geiderman, M.D.
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Case: A 55-year-old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer is brought into your emergency department from home, unaccompanied,…
Hypertensive Emergencies
It is estimated that anywhere from 72 to 74 million people in the United States aged 20…
‘Triple Scan’ for Diagnosis of ADHF
Identifying the cause of acute dyspnea in the emergency department is often challenging, even for the most…
Emergency Medicine Quality Measures
September 1, 2012
- Richard Newell, Todd Slesinger, Dickson Cheung, Jennifer Wiler, Daniel Handel, Abhi Mehrotra, Rahul K. Khare, Lee E. Payne, Michael P. Phelan, Gary Zaid, Thomas B Pinson, and Jay Brenner
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The goal of this article is to provide background on national quality measure reporting and reimbursement programs…
Flowers and a Smile
I have come to think that the Fat Man was right. And Jo, possibly, was an idiot….