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Violence in the Emergency Department
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016Violence is common in the emergency department (ED). The ED setting has numerous environmental risk factors for violence, including poor staffing, lack of privacy, overcrowding, and ready availability of nonsecured equipment that can be used as weapons. Strategies can be taken to mitigate the risk of violence toward health care workers, including staff
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Violence in the Emergency Department
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1998The spillover of societal violence continues to escalate in emergency departments (EDs) in the United States. The violence is not limited to urban, inner-city environments; it extends into the rural areas as well. Preventive techniques need to be addressed.
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Leprosy in the Emergency Department
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2000Abstract. Objectives: Los Angeles County—University of Southern California Medical Center, like many large urban hospitals, has a large immigrant population from regions of the world where leprosy is endemic. Emergency physicians (EPs) in these settings can expect to encounter leprosy patients.
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The Role of the Emergency Department
New England Journal of Medicine, 1996Emergency department care for patients whose problems are not true emergencies has become a fashionable scapegoat for the ills of the health care system in the United States. Such care is considered wasteful and expensive and is therefore a prime target for cost-cutting efforts by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other insurers.1,2 In 1992 ...
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Rebuilding the emergency department
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2000A nurse-manager of a busy urban emergency department (ED) recounts a $10.7 million complete renovation and expansion that added close to 20,000 square feet to the unit. Advice includes how to plan for security and equipment needs, create a design that exceeds expectations, get the ED through the ambitious construction phase--and anticipate the personal
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Crisis in the Emergency Department
New England Journal of Medicine, 2006The power and sophistication of terrorist bombings have increased dramatically, but America's emergency and trauma care system has deteriorated to an alarming degree. Dr. Arthur Kellermann writes that strengthening disaster response is a key priority.
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Hyperpyrexia in the emergency department
Emergency Medicine, 2001AbstractThe differential diagnosis of the hyperpyrexic patient in the emergency department is extensive. It includes sepsis, heat illness including heat stroke, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, malignant hyperthermia, serotonin syndrome and thyroid storm.
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Sedation in the emergency department
2012Sedation is described as a continuum, and it is often categorized according to the patient's level of consciousness as minimal, moderate, and deep sedation. Intravenous sedation can potentially cause numerous complications. The clinicians should therefore have a thorough knowledge of these possible complications and understand their management ...
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Staffing of Emergency Departments
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979To the Editor.— "The skills and teamwork employed in this complex task are improved by practice and repetition, which comes only with a large volume of injured patients" (240:1723, 1978). Thirty years of contact with and teaching in various trauma programs have convinced me that the crux of this matter lies in that sentence.
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Oncologic emergencies and urgencies: A comprehensive review
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Bonnie E Gould Rothberg +2 more
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