CPR is known for its subpar survival rates; statistics vary, but less than half of those who receive resuscitation survive. But now, physicians, nurses and others at the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine are among those learning a new technique called high performance CPR. Emergency medicine physician Kathy Staats, MD, discovered high performance CPR in […]
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TUESDAY, April 23, 2019 — Patients with cancer who are seeking cancer-related emergency medical care have worse outcomes when they are seen at alternative hospitals or those not associated with a cancer center, according to a study published in the April 23 issue of CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Keerat Grewal, M.D., […]
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In 2015, about half of the world’s 28 million human deaths were the result of medical emergencies, with the bulk of the burden borne by poorer nations, according to a statistical analysis of information from nearly 200 countries by a Johns Hopkins Medicine researcher. The analysis, described in April in the journal BMJ Global Health, […]
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Responding to today’s figures showing another decline in emergency care performance, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Taj Hassan said: Both these figures and the fact that this crisis is going unnoticed while the country is consumed by Brexit is deeply disappointing. These are the worst performance figures we’ve ever seen and […]
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Mar 12 2019 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) supports the continued use of the four-hour access standard as a high-level metric to monitor emergency care system performance. However, the problems and care models in Emergency Departments have changed considerably over the last 10 years and it is the College’s role to responsibly decide […]
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A new protocol could help emergency room physicians to rule out life-threatening bacterial infections among infants up to 2 months of age who have fevers, potentially eliminating the need for spinal taps, unnecessary antibiotic treatments or expensive hospital stays. Researchers from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) developed the protocol from a study […]
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An Australian initiative is successfully helping emergency doctors and nurses develop better treatments, diagnostics and services for improving patient care. After seeing first-hand the problems time-poor emergency clinicians had in taking part in research projects the Emergency Medicine Foundation – Australia (EMF) launched a Research Support Network (RSN) in late 2015. EMF piloted the program […]
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There is no association between access to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and emergency department visits for either uninsured or Medicaid-insured patients. That is the conclusion of a study to be published in the February 2019 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The lead author […]
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Patients with cancer requiring emergency department care had better outcomes at their original hospital or a cancer center hospital than at alternative general hospitals, found research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) http://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.180962 “Patients who were seen in an emergency department that was not associated with where they received cancer treatment or one of […]
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[ad_1] For decades, hospitals have strained to accommodate patients in psychiatric crisis in emergency rooms. The horror stories of failure abound: Patients heavily sedated or shackled to gurneys for days while awaiting placement in a specialized psychiatric hospital, their symptoms exacerbated by the noise and chaos of emergency medicine. Long wait times in crowded ERs […]
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TUESDAY, March 19, 2019 — A gender-based salary gap persists among academic emergency medicine physicians, according to a study published in the March issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. Jennifer L. Wiler, M.D., from the University of Colorado in Denver, and colleagues assessed trends in the salary of academic emergency physicians over four sequential time periods […]
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June Gordon, MD was nine months pregnant with her second child when she graduated from Stanford’s Emergency Medicine residency program last spring. She was a bit of an anomaly; the hours and obligations of a medical residency program present significant roadblocks to childbearing. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I wouldn’t change it […]
Continue Reading ...Older adults go to the emergency department more often than other age groups, stay longer, and typically require more resources and medical interventions. The most common conditions among geriatric frequent users include diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, congestive heart failure and blockage or damage to veins or arteries, according to new research in Annals of […]
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Responding to the release of performance figures for January 2019 which show worst ever four-hour performance and the highest ever number of emergency admissions, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Taj Hassan said: These are the worst figures on record, showing that despite the positivity around the NHS Long Term Plan, the […]
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23, 2019 — Rising ozone levels and air pollution may be sending more people to U.S. emergency rooms with breathing problems, a new study finds. In fact, increased ozone levels, a main component of smog, sent people of all ages to emergency rooms, the researchers found. For each increase in ozone of 20 […]
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