Where Are All the Children Going? ED Pediatric Patients Are Decreasing
Pandemic-related challenges continue to arise, and emergency physicians continue to manage the many implications. More forward planning…
About James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP
James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP, is national director of prehospital strategy for US Acute Care Solutions in Canton, Ohio; clinical professor of emergency medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; and vice president of the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance.
Posts by James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP
Another COVID Casualty: the Emergency Department Transfer Process
New waves and challenges of COVID-19 keep coming. Emergency physicians keep managing the front lines, caring for…
EMS and the ED: What Should the Relationship Look Like Going Forward?
Figure 1: Trends in EMS Arrival and Admissions Versus Walk-in ED Patients COVID-19 won’t go away. As…
Where Will Emergency Department Volumes Go Post-Pandemic?
As we emerge from 18 months of pandemic operations, many emergency physicians are being asked how to…
Emergency Department Redesigns Must Incorporate Recent Lessons Learned
It won’t be long now: Emergency department medical directors and nurse managers will soon be asked to…
Statistical Trends of Diagnostic Testing in the Emergency Department
Emergency departments have become overall diagnostic and treatment centers of excellence and availability in the American health…
Pre-COVID ED Trends Suggest More Challenges Lie Ahead
The role of emergency department physicians and leaders has been made dramatically more important due to the…
Help Prevent Coronavirus Spread by Reevaluating ED Flow
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on May 2, 2020, and was accurate at that time. Because…
Emergency Department Usage Trends Before COVID-19
The number of patients seen in U.S. emergency departments has been steadily increasing since World War II….
By the Numbers: Mental Health Visits Are Increasing
Of 139 Million U.S. ED visits in 2017 4.8 Million visits had a primary diagnosis of mental…