American Medical Association Ethics Code Helps Emergency Physicians Make Tough Decisions
Just another day in your busy emergency department, except that today one of your patients ended up…
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American Medical Association Ethics Code Helps Emergency Physicians Make Tough Decisions
Just another day in your busy emergency department, except that today one of your patients ended up... -
InnovatED to Expand Its Interactive Emergency Department Space at ACEP14
It’s not new any more, but innovatED might still surprise you at ACEP14. It’s bigger than it... -
Emergency Medicine Hackathon Collaborative Sessions Scheduled October 24–26
I have been answering one question a lot lately. Nope, not, “Nurse, can I get a sandwich?”...
InnovatED to Expand Its Interactive Emergency Department Space at ACEP14
It’s not new any more, but innovatED might still surprise you at ACEP14. It’s bigger than it…
Emergency Medicine Hackathon Collaborative Sessions Scheduled October 24–26
I have been answering one question a lot lately. Nope, not, “Nurse, can I get a sandwich?”…
ACEP14 Can’t Miss Sessions for Emergency Physicians
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 10–10:50 a.m. (MO-07) Pediatric Orthopedics: Avoid the Pitfalls Faculty: Annalise Sorrentino, MD, FAAP, FACEP…
Blood Culture Testing: Send Samples Selectively to Lower Costs, Medico-Legal Risk
Your last patient on a shift is a 55-year-old well-appearing woman with fever and cough in whom…
ACEP Launches 2014 PQRS Registry Reporting System
ACEP announced in late August that it has developed a Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) registry reporting…
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Forms: What You Need to Know
Understanding POLST forms will better enable emergency physicians to verify patients’ wishes for end-of-life care are being…
Opinion: Emergency Physicians Should Take Cautious Approach to Incentives that Boost Patient Satisfaction
Jay Kaplan MD, FACEP, recently argued in ACEP Now (April 2014) that emergency physicians should embrace patient…
Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance Reports on Data Survey for Next-Generation ED Design
The design of emergency departments (EDs) is evolving with the changes in patients served, diagnostic testing utilized,…
Laceration or Incised Wound: Know the Difference
The Case: A 24-year-old male presents to the emergency department sustaining the wound shown in Figure 1…