Breathing Easy: Alternative Uses for Standard Accessories
People are clumsy, especially with their medications. How many times have we met patients who dropped their…
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Breathing Easy: Alternative Uses for Standard Accessories
People are clumsy, especially with their medications. How many times have we met patients who dropped their... -
Should Nebulized Hypertonic Saline Be Used in the Treatment of Acute Viral Bronchiolitis?
Nebulized hypertonic saline is an emerging therapy for this indication. Viral bronchiolitis is the most common diagnosis... -
Strong Shoulders, Deep Weeds
I read with interest the article in the August issue of ACEP News about the 50th anniversary...
Should Nebulized Hypertonic Saline Be Used in the Treatment of Acute Viral Bronchiolitis?
Nebulized hypertonic saline is an emerging therapy for this indication. Viral bronchiolitis is the most common diagnosis…
Commemoration of the Alexandria Plan at 50 Years
Many of the problems currently facing the U.S. health care system are similar to what emergency medicine…
Emergency Medicine’s Role in End-of-Life Care
A 47-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer who is being followed by home hospice is brought to…
Camouflaging Informed Consent
In 1972, Canterbury v. Spence changed American health law, and with it, the patient-physician relationship. Some ethicists…
Look, Thurston…
The eggheads in Washington sit on the beach reading cheap novels while we swim with the sharks….
Proposed Measures on CT Scans Cause Concern
The American College of Emergency Physicians has raised red flags over proposed measures aimed at CT scan…
Emergency Physicians’ Role in Health Care Stewardship
It is 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning when a 20-year-old man presents to the emergency department…
Choice Between Hospital and Home
Although Dr. Bruce Leff [Hospital Care in the Home on the Horizon, ACEP News, March 2011] and…
Strong Shoulders, Deep Weeds
I read with interest the article in the August issue of ACEP News about the 50th anniversary…