What Emergency Physicians Can Do to Reduce Unnecessary Coagulation Testing in Patients with Chest Pain
Engage other medical specialties and admitting physicians to achieve consensus on tests that are not necessary for…
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What Emergency Physicians Can Do to Reduce Unnecessary Coagulation Testing in Patients with Chest Pain
Engage other medical specialties and admitting physicians to achieve consensus on tests that are not necessary for... -
New Decision Instruments That Predict Risk of Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction May Make TIMI Score Obsolete
Risk-stratification tools such as the HEART Score, EDACS score, and North American Chest Pain Rule may replace... -
Health Issues To Consider Among Transgender Patients
Conditions related to cross-sex hormone use, postoperative wounds, cardiovascular risk, and sexual and mental health concerns in...
New Decision Instruments That Predict Risk of Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction May Make TIMI Score Obsolete
Risk-stratification tools such as the HEART Score, EDACS score, and North American Chest Pain Rule may replace…
Health Issues To Consider Among Transgender Patients
Conditions related to cross-sex hormone use, postoperative wounds, cardiovascular risk, and sexual and mental health concerns in…
A Congressman Responds to In-flight Medical Crisis
Representative Raul Ruiz, MD, MPH, a former ED physician, steps up to aid a sick airline passenger…
D2B time: Are we measuring the right thing?
Door-to-balloon (D2B) time is a measurement that starts with patient arrival to the emergency department (door) and…
Faith in the Emergency Department
‘This guy doesn’t look good.’ There are phrases in emergency medicine that mean pure, smoldering badness. The…
Clinical Guideline Review: Diagnosis of DVT
The ACEP Clinical Policies Committee regularly reviews guidelines published by other organizations and professional societies. Periodically, new…
Be Careful With Creativity
So this guy (a 72-year-old male) checks in with a chief complaint of chest pain one evening….
Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species…
Anaphylaxis Update
This article was developed by Mylan Specialty, L.P. Introduction Anaphylaxis is increasing in prevalence and has important…