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Postgraduate rheumatology training programs define the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed for physicians to become specialists in rheumatology. In some countries there is a standardized approach, but in others the program ...
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Emergency departments (EDs) are currently unsafe places for both professionals and patients, according to the results of an international survey carried out for the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and published ...
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 million hospital emergency department (ED) visits took place annually in the U.S. In two studies, Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Sharmistha Dev, M.D., MPH, and colleagues ...
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Surviving a trip to the emergency room for an opioid overdose dramatically increases a patient's odds of dying in the year after, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.
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Medicare coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests has ended, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors.
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Researchers from Iceland trained a machine learning model with artificial intelligence to triage patients with respiratory symptoms before the patients visit a primary care clinic.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a second nasal spray for reversing an opioid overdose.
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Critical care physician Hollis O'Neal, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's Baton Rouge campus, presented data that validate a rapid diagnostic test for sepsis at the American ...
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An analysis of persons admitted to the emergency department (ED) for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) and evaluated using computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) has found that despite recent rules to limit its ...
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An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative care for the aftermath.
While some emergencies are self evident (such as a natural disaster that threatens many lives), many smaller incidents require the subjective opinion of an observer (or affected party) in order to decide whether it qualifies as an emergency.
The precise definition of an emergency, the agencies involved and the procedures used, vary by jurisdiction, and this is usually set by the government, whose agencies (emergency services) are responsible for emergency planning and management.
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