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Emergency Medicine News

News on Emergency Medicine continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

5 hrs ago | KOLD-TV Tucson

ER Visit Leaves Many Confused

If you've made a sudden trip to the emergency room and are now heading home, take a moment to think about something besides all that poking and prodding: Are you sure you know what just happened and what comes ...

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Related Topix: Northwestern University, Medicine

10 hrs ago | WFMY 2 Greensboro

ER Doctors Identify Heart Attacks Before Lab Results

A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet ...

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

14 hrs ago | WFMY 2 Greensboro

ER Doctors Identify Heart Attacks Before Lab Results

A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet ...

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Fri Jul 25, 2008

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

GE Healthcare acquires Vital Signs

GE Healthcare's purchase of Vital Signs Inc. signals the importance General Electric's medical technology division is putting on its Wauwatosa-based clinical systems business.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Wauwatosa, WI, Vital Signs, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Open Access News

Journal of emergency medicine converts to OA

See the announcement on the BioMed Central blog or the journal's editorial : ... SJTREM has chosen open access publishing for several reasons.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Physics Blog

Study shows emergency physicians have good first instincts in diagnosing heart attacks

A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet ...

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

WCAV

Volunteers from UVA Health System Take Road Trip to Give Free Health Care

Doctors, nurses, medical and nursing students, as well as lab technicians will offer patients in Wise pap smears, digital mammograms, hearing exams--and for the first time--pneumonia vaccinations.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine

Wed Jul 23, 2008

NY Daily News

Specialist offers advice for keeping cool

Dr. Andrew Jagoda of Mount Sinai is an emergency care expert specializing in heat-related illnesses.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Tue Jul 22, 2008

KNXV

Caffeine related illnesses increase in Valley ER

Before you grab that morning boost of caffeine, whether it's coffee or an energy drink, doctors warn caffeine poisoning is on the rise.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Southeast Missourian

Showing each other how

The same doctor who a delivered me came to our house when I was sick and saw me through the mumps and bumps of growing up.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Opinion

Sun Jul 20, 2008

The Macon Telegraph

Monroe doctor gets national award

Dr. John J. Rogers, the emergency department medical director at Monroe County Hospital, has been named a Fellow by the American College of Emergency Physicians .

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Related Topix: Medicine

Sat Jul 19, 2008

Kansas.com

Former ER doctor opens west-side clinic

Emergency room physician Grover Hershberger has traded heart attacks for sore throats and earaches.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Sore Throat, Health, University of Nebraska System, Medical Center (University of Nebraska System), Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS

Fri Jul 18, 2008

MediLexicon

Doctors' Orders Lost In Translation

When patients are discharged from the emergency department, their recovery depends on carefully following the doctors' instructions for their post care at home.

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Related Topix: Northwestern University, Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor Metro, Detroit Metro, Medicine, Health

Times-Transcript

New Pathologist, ER physician welcomed to Miramichi

"I am delighted with the addition of Dr. Edith Nemec, pathologist, and Dr. SalimAhmed, emergency medicine physician, to our medical team," said Foley, who noted the addition of Nemec and Ahmed provides a full ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, World News, Belgium

Thu Jul 17, 2008

MediLexicon

After ER Visit, Many Patients In A Fog

Every year, more than 115 million patients enter emergency rooms at hospitals around the nation.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine, Northwestern University, Health

Wed Jul 16, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Confusion reigns in the emergency room

Visits to an emergency room are confusing and nerve-racking events that one emergency room doctor describes as "usually the worst day of a person's life." That makes for a poor setting for good communication.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Northwestern University

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Austin American-Statesman

Austin hospitals strained by hundreds of patients from outside area

Patients from around Texas and even other states are increasingly being sent to Austin for emergency medical care, which officials at the largest hospital system in Central Texas say can put some lives at risk ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Texas

Sun Jul 13, 2008

hosted South Florida Sun-Sentinel | South Florida Sun-Sentinel

S. Fla. hospitals join trend of becoming stroke centers

As stroke care advances, hospitals are lining up to create centers to treat these 'brain attacks' with as much urgency as they treat trauma patients.

Hospitals are propelled by a 2004 state law that sends ambulances to stroke centers even if another hospital is closer. Florida leads the nation in the number of stroke centers because of the law, the state's large population and older demographic.

Broward County has 11, second only to Pinellas County's 12.

But not all stroke centers are the same, and it can be hard for patients to know the differences. Some hospitals don't have neurosurgeons to handle complications or bleeding strokes. Most are primary stroke centers, which offer baseline care. A few are comprehensive centers with cutting-edge treatment, but patients aren't always transferred to them.

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Related Topix: Pinellas County, FL, Broward County, FL, Medicine, Deerfield Beach, FL

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Los Angeles Times

ER patients often confused about their diagnosis and home care

VISITS TO an emergency room are confusing and nerve-racking events that one emergency room doctor describes as "usually the worst day of a person's life." That makes for a poor setting for good communication.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Thu Jul 10, 2008

American Chronicle

From Daly City to Baungon, Bukidnon : Building Bridges of Friendship and Compassion Across the Seas

Some 10,000 residents of this municipality stand to benefit from the Baungon and Manolo Fortich Hospital Medical, Surgical and Dental Outreach Mission organized by an extraordinary group of private and sector ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Travel, Southeast Asia, Philippines Travel, Philippines, World News, San Mateo County, CA, Opinion

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