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Headache in the emergency department

Neurological Sciences, 2004
Patients with headache commonly seek care at an emergency department (ED). Patients with headache in fact account for between 1 and 2% of admissions to an ED. Therefore the ED physician must recognize symptoms and characteristics of headache that signal a potential significant organic problem in order to select appropriate tests and treatment.
M, Gardinali, M, Bernareggi, S, Magni
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CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1999
The ideal of patient confidentiality has mutated over the last several years to accommodate the factors that infringe upon its meaning; such as expanding health care information technologies, physical environments that promote breaches of patient privacy, and health care workers who are unaware of how their routine behavior infringes on patients' right
R K, Knopp, P A, Satterlee
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Urolithiasis in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2011
Urolithiasis commonly presents to the emergency department with acute, severe, unilateral flank pain. Patients with a suspected first-time stone or atypical presentation should be evaluated with a noncontrast computed tomography scan to confirm the diagnosis and rule out alternative diagnoses.
Autumn, Graham, Samuel, Luber, Allan B, Wolfson   +2 more
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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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VIOLENCE IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1999
Violence in the emergency department is a frequently encountered problem that is often not promptly or adequately addressed. This article outlines the epidemiology of violence in the emergency department, including patients at greatest risk for aggressive behavior.
J C, Blanchard, K M, Curtis
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Expanding the Emergency Department

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968
It is agreed that, if one individual requests emergency care from an emergency department, it can accept such a patient and provide good medical care with its normal personnel and facilities. The department can probably handle five emergencies at once. However, if there are ten injured patients, offduty employees must be called in and the medical staff
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Hypnosis in the emergency department

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1989
Five cases are presented wherein hypnosis was used by the emergency physician either as the primary mode of treatment or as an adjuvant to standard medical care. Common hypnotic phenomena (eg, anesthesia, analgesia), as well as novel effects, are reported. The technique used for trance induction and utilization is briefly outlined, and criteria are set
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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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