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The Geriatric Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2014
This article presents an overview of the complex needs of older patients presenting to the emergency department for care. Discussion points for hospital communities considering emergency services to accommodate the aging population are highlighted. The essential components of a geriatric emergency department, including transition of care strategies ...
Mark, Rosenberg, Lynne, Rosenberg
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Hypertensive Emergencies in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2015
Hypertension affects approximately one-third of Americans. An additional 30% are unaware that they harbor the disease. Significantly increased blood pressure constitutes a hypertensive emergency that could lead to end-organ damage. When organs such as the brain, heart, or kidney are affected, an intervention that will lower the blood pressure in ...
Omoyemi, Adebayo, Robert L, Rogers
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Headache in the Emergency Department

Current Pain and Headache Reports, 2011
Emergency-medicine clinical researchers concentrate on optimizing diagnostic workups and treatment protocols, as well as improving throughput in an emergency department. This past year has yielded a wealth of clinical research focused on headache, which should streamline the diagnostic workup of nontraumatic headaches (particularly the search for ...
Benjamin W, Friedman, Richard B, Lipton
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Structure and function of the emergency department: matching emergency department choices to the emergency department mission

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2004
Emergency caregivers experience considerable new challenges to the provision of competent, compassionate care. The good news is there are ample new approaches and new technologies to meet those new challenges.ED leaders who understand the ED mission and the resources available today and who engage vigorously in the change process will turn that mission
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Violence in the emergency department

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011
Violence towards staff is of serious concern across health-care services. Health professionals are one of the most likely groups to experience violence and aggression in the workplace (Table 1), second only to the protective service occupations: Language ...
Sarah, Voss, Tom, Llyod, Olivia, Joyner, Julian, Lousada, Nigel, Caldwell, Jonathan, Benger   +5 more
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Malaria in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1983
Eleven patients with malaria seen over five years in one emergency department demonstrate a trend toward more efficient diagnosis and outpatient treatment. Ten patients were diagnosed using a routine Wright's stained peripheral blood smear (three fortuitously).
T, Stair, R, Ricci, J, Pedicano, J, Kane
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Sedation in the Emergency Department

Pediatric Annals, 2005
Unique circumstances call for specialized training and careful consideration.
Alfred, Sacchetti, Joseph, Cravero
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Emergency department crowding

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2014
Emergency department crowding is a significant international problem. The problem is on the edge of the emergency department and the departments where the patients will be subsequently admitted, provided they are not discharged. In this paper we present an analysis of the factors affecting waiting time in the emergency department of an eminent hospital
Miryam Barad, Talma Hadas, Rony Ackerman Yarom, Hadar Weisman   +3 more
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The Role of the Emergency Department

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
Emergency 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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Violence in the Emergency Department

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1998
The 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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