Emergency medicine

Dr. Ellert and Stan, The ADHS trauma stakeholder workgroup held its December meeting last week and I attended along with Dr. O’Neil. My notes are below. Please let me know if you see anything that raises issues. I think we continue to be okay but I have highlighted three issues where I’d like your attention. Here is a link to the most recent CME Requirement – The consensus is the trauma medical director’s CME should be “external to the facility.” As I understood the conversation, a doctor

The quality risk management plan for this case study scenario includes identifying areas of risk and healthcare errors, in order to protect future patients from having their safety compromised. The case study describes two patients who received wrong-site surgery; which is considered a sentinel event – preventable and should never occur. According to a report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network (2015) titled Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, and Wrong-Patient

our condolences and sympathy to the traumatized Sherpa community that evening. Looking back at the whole event, I must admit that I was not fully prepared to handle that situation. However, the experiences of having completed a Diploma in Mountain Medicine two months before the disaster, the experience of successfully conducting a high altitude pilgrimage health camp in the past, and also the experience of my training in the largest level one trauma center and teaching hospital in my country; I did

Although emergency physicians have been utilising PoCUS since the 1990's its use by emergency medicine paediatricians is relatively recent with a collaborative policy statement being issued only as recently as January 2015 by the American Academy of Paediatrics , Society of American Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians and the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound. providing a framework for point of care ultrasound development within paediatric emergency departments

Emergency room physicians are on the front lines in a crisis, caring for everyone from trauma victims to sick kids. An ability to think quickly and care for a wide variety of patients makes them valuable assets at every hospital. It also brings some perks. When sudden illness or acute injury strikes, patients turn to hospital emergency rooms for immediate medical assistance. An ER doctor, or emergency medicine specialist, is a physician who diagnoses and treats illnesses and injuries in a hospital

Access to Health Care and the Hot Spotters Program The United States of America has been known to be one of the most advanced countries in terms of our quality of medicine, medical programs, and medical advances. A person can walk into nearly any emergency room without the fear of being turned away or not getting care. With so many resources and cutting edge technology, it’s hard to believe that this health care system does not function to suit the needs of the populations that are most in need

Referring to the Crowe vs. Provost, the child was then rushed back into the doctor’s office with worsening symptoms, the nurse should have listened to the mother. The nurse, could have instructed the mother to take the worsening child to the nearest Emergency Department. The nurse advising the doctor, “That she thought the child was about the same as when the physician saw him earlier in the day” (Flight, M., 2011, page 5-6) was not a good idea. The doctor could have been brought in for an examination

compelling treatment of patients whose life lies in her grasp (Satoskar, Bhandarkar, 2005) Emergency Nursing is a special type of nursing in which nursing staff look after patients in the crisis or basic period of their disease. In conventional routine of nursing, a patient lands with an analysis connected by a doctor and the staff nurse, must deal with the patient's consideration as per that finding, where as in emergency nursing, obligations of a nurse as a medical caretaker are different because diagnosis

Introduction Emergency departments are considered an important aspect of the health care system. For many years, wait times have been an area of concern for many Canadians and remain a significant issue. One of the major concerns within the Canadian health care system is the amount of time spent as waiting time in the healthcare services. Wait times are the length of time from when the patient is triaged and registered, to when the patient leaves from the emergency room (Affleck, Parks, Drummond

Until age nine, my family and I resided in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Long Beach, California where gangs and criminal activity pervaded the streets. My father was the sole provider working as a cook, and my mother, formerly a caretaker for the elderly, became a full-time homemaker when I was born. Though my father was not home much, his strong work ethic and tenacity to improve our living conditions was admirable, as it enabled him to provide for us and help support family in Mexico. Since