Medications
FDA: People are overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs
Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem.
Jun 7, 2016
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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Cardiology
Can your fitness tracker save your life in the ER?
Emergency physicians used a patient's personal activity tracker and smartphone to identify the time his heart arrhythmia started, which allowed them to treat his new-onset atrial fibrillation with electrical cardioversion ...
Apr 5, 2016
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Health
Study finds barriers for patients seeking primary care after ED visits
Only one in three patients who don't have primary care physicians and visit the Emergency Department (ED) for care can get a primary care appointment within one week of the ED visit, according to a new Yale-led study. Medicaid ...
Oct 10, 2017
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Medications
Ketamine for the difficult-to-sedate ER patient
For the small segment of the emergency population whose acute behavioral disturbance does not respond to traditional sedation, ketamine appears to be effective and safe, according to an Australian study published online last ...
Feb 24, 2016
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Health
Rare weight lifting injury required surgery
A young, healthy man injured himself so severely while weight lifting that he required surgery and nearly a full week in the hospital to recover. The unusual case report of compartment syndrome to the shoulder will be reported ...
Jun 28, 2013
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Health
Why seniors don't eat: It's complicated
More than half of older adults who visit emergency departments are either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, but not because of lack of access to health care, critical illness or dementia. Despite clear signs of malnutrition ...
Aug 13, 2014
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Health
Study identifies methods for preventing overcrowding in emergency rooms
No single solution exists for alleviating crowding in emergency rooms, but a new study identifies four key strategies that have reduced the problem.
Aug 28, 2017
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Health
Major measurement issues found in emergency department patient experience data
There are major measurement issues in patient experience data collected from U.S. emergency departments, including high variability and limited construct validity, according to an analysis published by researchers at the ...
Dec 19, 2017
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Health
Pool of retired and nonworking emergency nurses could be recruited in a disaster
The COVID-19 pandemic fueled an acute, countrywide need for registered nurses, and this underscored the need for clear staffing plans and an assessment of what, exactly, the registered nursing workforce looks like.
Jun 15, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
ED clinical leaders eager to provide early treatment for pediatric sepsis
In a qualitative, interview-based study of Emergency Department leaders, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus found most were motivated to provide high quality pediatric sepsis care but disagreed ...
Jul 14, 2022
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