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…
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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...
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…
SuperTrack Approach to Patient Segmentation Aids Emergency Departments
For emergency departments seeing medium to high volumes of patients, the concept of patient segmentation is becoming…
Is Video or Direct Laryngoscopy Better for Intubation in Trauma Patients?
Eighty-seven percent of intubations were performed by emergency physicians. In more than two-thirds of cases, rapid sequence…
Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest from Lyme Carditis Underscores Need for Timely Diagnosis, Treatment
CDC partners with ACEP to disseminate info about disseminated Lyme: critical update on Lyme carditis Disclaimer: The…