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(HealthDay)—All hospital emergency departments (EDs), including community hospital EDs, should have the appropriate medications, equipment, policies, and staff to provide effective emergency care for children, according to a policy statement published in the March issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hospital-emergency-rooms-children.html Health Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:40:07 EST news284368031 Among patients with emergency department (ED) visits with the same presenting complaint as those with visits ultimately given a primary care-treatable diagnosis based on the ED discharge diagnosis, a substantial proportion required immediate emergency care or hospital admission, findings that do not support use of discharge diagnosis as the basis for policies discouraging ED use, according to a study in the March 20 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-discharge-diagnosis-emergency-department-accurately.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:00:01 EST news282927490 (HealthDay)—The total cost of diabetes in the United States jumped from $174 billion in 2007 to $245 billion in 2012, a new report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-diabetes-climbing.html Diabetes Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:50:01 EST news281804522 Each year, more than 130,000 children younger than 13 are treated in U.S. emergency departments after motor-vehicle crash-related injuries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-emergency-departments-parents-car-seat.html Pediatrics Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:46:38 EST news281717176 Older bikers are up to three times as likely to be seriously injured in a crash as younger motor bike enthusiasts, indicates US research published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-older-bikers-younger-peers.html Health Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:30:01 EST news279388335 A study of more than 12,000 children from emergency departments throughout the country in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) has identified seven factors that can help physicians determine the need for a computed tomography (CT) scan following blunt trauma to the abdomen. Because CT scans pose radiation hazards for youngsters, the findings may enable doctors to determine which children do not need to be exposed to such tests after a traumatic injury. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-needless-abdominal-ct-scans-children.html Cancer Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:00:01 EST news278938493 Patients with sickle cell disease rely more on the emergency room as they move from pediatric to adult health care, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-adulthood-sickle-cell-patients-er.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:39:34 EST news274358362 In the first study to compare mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits between children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), researchers found that ED visits are nine times more likely to be for psychiatric reasons if a child has an ASD diagnosis. Published in the journal Pediatric Emergency Care (Epub ahead of print), the study found externalizing symptoms, such as severe behaviors tied to aggression, were the leading cause of ED visits among children with ASD. Importantly, the likelihood of a psychiatric ED visit was higher if a child carried private health insurance rather than medical assistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-children-autism-emergency-room-psychiatric.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:31:20 EST news273774523 In this week's PLOS Medicine, Sabine Gabrysch from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and colleagues draw upon a literature review, expert survey, and consensus method to recommend new signal functions to monitor and track facilities' provision of routine and emergency newborn care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ways-quality-newborns.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:00:12 EST news272046514 New research into controversial pay-for-performance schemes has suggested they may help to save the lives of NHS patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-financial-incentives-hospital-mortality.html Health Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:00:14 EST news271518169 (HealthDay)—In rural areas, pediatricians can play a key role in the development, implementation, and ongoing supervision of emergency medical services for children (EMSC), according to a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published online Oct. 29 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pediatricians-key-rural-emergency-medical.html Health Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:04 EST news270741362 UnitedHealth Group Inc. will spend about $4.9 billion to buy a majority stake in Brazilian health benefits and care provider Amil Participacoes SA, as the largest U.S. health insurer leaps into an international market it says is primed for growth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-unitedhealth-brazil-private-health-firm.html Other Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:52:08 EST news268908723 The benefits and cost effectiveness of helicopter transport for severely injured patients is of continued debate. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that for severe blunt trauma, patients transported by helicopter had a lower risk of death, compared to those transported by road. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-helicopter-heroes.html Other Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:00:01 EST news267992943 Adolescents who are tasered by law enforcement officers do not appear to be at higher risk for serious injury than adults, according to new a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-tasered-youth-fare-adults.html Pediatrics Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:53:45 EST news267184417 (HealthDay)—The stress of readjusting to civilian life is a major reason some U.S. soldiers seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-vets-readjustment-issues-spur-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:50:01 EST news266149815 (AP)—After a motorbike accident, Bharat Singh rushed to get his brother the emergency care he needed. It would end up taking five hours—three of them spent in a van posing as an ambulance, with an empty oxygen tank and no medic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-india-emergency-tatters.html Health Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:45:58 EST news266035549 The correct therapeutic dose is important for this commonly used painkiller, say the authors, because it is potentially fatal to give too high a dose; and too low a dose may result in more serious illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-carers-pharmacists-paracetamol-doses-overweight.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:30:04 EST news264693951 Hospitals in areas with large minority populations are more likely to be overcrowded and to divert ambulances, delaying timely emergency care, according to a multi-institutional study focused on California. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-er-overcrowding-minorities-california.html Health Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:00:09 EST news263487362 Spain's cash-strapped government is eliminating state subsidies for more than 450 medicines, ranging from cough remedies to the pain-killer codeine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-spain-subsidies-medicines.html Medications Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:00:28 EST news260074818 Alcohol may be involved in up to 640,000 hospital admissions and nearly 2 million visits to emergency care departments in England and Wales every year, suggests research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-alcohol-involved-hospital-admissions-england.html Health Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:30:01 EST news259418069 People who are seriously injured in a car accident are more than 30 per cent more likely to survive at least 48 hours if they are taken directly to a trauma centre than those who are taken first to a non-trauma centre, new research has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-car-victims-survive-trauma-centre.html Surgery Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:11:05 EST news258369051 In a study of mostly minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged families, 99 percent of participants reported having access to the Internet. More than half of the families were interested in receiving health information electronically, an important finding in the quest to improve access to health information. The study, conducted in the Emergency Department at Children's National Medical Center, is published in the June issue of Pediatric Emergency Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-majority-families-urban-areas-access.html Health Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EST news258044829 Men are significantly more likely than women to need urgent hospital care, including readmission, within a month of being discharged, finds research in the online only journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-men-women-urgent-hospital-discharge.html Health Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news253981050 Undergraduate students at Rice University have come up with what they hope will prove to be a better and safer version of cervical collars to stabilize the heads and necks of accident victims. Cervical collars have been in common use since their introduction during the Vietnam War. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-students-focus-cervical-collar.html Other Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:06:51 EST news253195593 A pilot study by emergency care experts at UWE Bristol to test the best method of airway management to resuscitate out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients has exceeded target recruitment of paramedics from Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS). The research team had hoped to recruit 150 paramedics but over 180 have signed up to be involved. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-cardiac-treatment-paramedic.html Other Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:34:27 EST news249032059 The first study to examine patterns of emergency care for an entire state has found that 40 percent of emergency department visits in Indiana over a three-year period were by patients who visited more than one emergency department. This finding challenges conventional wisdom that patients are tightly bound to health care systems and tend to repeatedly visit local facilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-emergency-entire-state-isnt-local.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:23:18 EST news243598988 In a new study, researchers have found a 44 percent increase since 2001 in the number of hospitals that offer definitive emergency care to patients with heart attack, but only a 1 percent increase in access to that care. The study, led by Thomas W. Concannon, PhD, Assistant Professor Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, will be published January 1, 2012 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hospitals-invest-heavily-heart-access.html Cardiology Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:31:28 EST news243520275 (Medical Xpress) -- More than half of children admitted to an urban Florida pediatric emergency department had elevated blood pressure, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Emergency Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-high-blood-pressure-hidden-health.html Health Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:10:01 EST news242027694 Fatigue and poor sleep quality, which affect many emergency medical services (EMS) workers, are linked to higher reported rates of injuries, medical errors and safety-compromising behaviors, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers that is now available online in Prehospital Emergency Care and appearing in the January-March 2012 print edition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-fatigue-linked-safety-problems-ems.html Health Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:28:48 EST news240748120 African-American and Hispanic children are less likely to receive a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan in an emergency department (ED) following minor head trauma than white children, according to an abstract presented Friday, Oct. 14 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-minority-children-ct-scans-trauma.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:35:18 EST news237785706