Emergency Medicine

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Emergency Medicine

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 36 mins ago - 2 reports

Soaring ER use adds more pain to health costs

The Washington Post notes that trips to U.S emergency rooms have soared in recent years, from 67 million in 1996 to 119 million in 2008. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates emergency department costs account for up to 5.8% of total ... [Published MSN Money - 36 mins ago]

Entities: emergency, Admission, Emergency Medicine

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Vanderbilt University

Preventable injuries filled Vanderbilt University Hospital last Memorial Day; Doctors urge safety on upcoming holiday

Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center urge safety with upcoming Memorial Day celebrations after a record-breaking number of trauma patients filled Vanderbilt University Hospital on this same weekend last year.In 2012 Vanderbilt’s Trauma Unit ... [Published Vanderbilt University - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Vanderbilt University, Patient, Alcohol

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

NHS

GPs offered £560 to cover A&E nightshift

HEALTH bosses are appealing to GPs to ride to their rescue and help avert a downgrade in accident and emergency  services in the region. Emergency departments across the Lothians are facing a growing staffing crisis, with falling trainee numbers and a ... [Published The Scotsman - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Out-of-Hours, NHS, Emergency Medicine, emergency

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

New additions to AMA Roll of Fellows

AMA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2013 (Twitter: #amanatcon)AMA ROLL OF FELLOWSThe AMA has inducted three new members into the AMA Roll of Fellows.Former AMA Queensland President and current AMA Federal Councillor, Dr Richard Kidd, former AMA WA President and current ... [Published Australian Medical Association - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Emergency Medicine, Steve Hambleton, Patient, Federal

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

A&E crisis putting lives at risk - health chief warns

LIVES are being put at risk because of the crisis in A&E a leading doctor at the Worcestershire Royal has warned.James France, clinical lead for emergency medicine at the Charles Hastings Way hospital, was among 18 leaders of casualty departments across ... [Published Worcester Standard - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Crisis, Patient, Emergency Medicine, Charles Hastings, James France

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Facebook Inc

ED staff's Facebook time increased with patient volume

Emergency department healthcare workers in one hospital spent an average of 12 minutes per hour browsing Facebook, and use of Facebook increased as patient volumes and acuity increased, according to a study in the May issue of Journal of Medical Internet ... [Published HCPro - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Facebook Inc, Health Care, Emergency Medicine, University of Florida, Workers

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 2 reports

University College Dublin

UHS course

Pakistan Election 2013 CoverageYou are here: Home > News Our CorrespondentFrom Print EditionLAHOREUNIVERSITY of Health Sciences (UHS) has launched an international certificate emergency medical technician (EMT) course for ambulance staff of Rescue ... [Published The News International - 12 hours ago]

Entities: University College Dublin, Ireland, UCD, Emergency Medicine, Health Science

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Race and gender of study personnel affect clinical-research participation

While race and gender are often mentioned as factors complicating efforts to ensure clinical trials are conducted in representative populations, new research suggests that similar distinctions may apply to the personnel managing a clinical study. A team ... [Published Pharma Times - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Patient, clinical study, Sex, Emergency Medicine

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 3 reports

Centralisation of health services on cards

Doctors could face major service changes under plans for a large-scale reorganisation of health services in south Wales, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said, warning that the reconfiguration could lead to centralisation of services.The south ... [Published Public Service - May 23 2013]

Entities: Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar, College of Emergency Medicine, Aneurin Bevan, British Medical Association

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

NHS Gloucestershire chiefs echo fears over 'unsafe' A&E...

NHS Gloucestershire chiefs echo some of the views expressed by emergency department leaders who wrote a letter saying A&Es can no longer guarantee safe care for patients.A letter by 20 emergency medicine chiefs from 18 A&E departments in the West Midlands ... [Published This is Gloucestershire - May 23 2013]

Entities: NHS, Emergency Medicine, Patient, Toxic

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Remote Medical International Finds $8M For Emergency Medicine

Seattle-based Remote Medical International, a provider of international medical services, said Thursday that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The funding came from Columbia Pacific Management, a Seattle investor which already owns 23 hospitals through ... [Published Northwest Innovation - May 23 2013]

Entities: Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Logistics

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Emergency care in the U.K. requires an 'urgent overhaul'

London - The College of Emergency Medicines has urged the U.K. government to urgently reform the accident and emergency services. The services are said to be facing potentially critical pressures. This conclusion comes from a new report issued by the ... [Published Digital Journal - May 22 2013]

Entities: emergency, United Kingdom, Emergency Medicine, NHS, Mike Clancy

Quotes

"It makes no difference to me if they are Israeli or Palestinian. I'm just thankful to them for all their help" she said

Israeli, Palestinian doctors save lives at Hadassah [Published Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - 9 mins ago]

"We believe there needs to be more effort to integrate the operations of emergency departments into both inpatient and outpatient care systems" noted lead author Kristy Gonzalez Morganti. More on moneyNOW

Soaring ER use adds more pain to health costs [Published MSN Money - 36 mins ago]

"They'll come to us for preventive care, but they'll wait until their disease has progressed to a point to where it's more complicated than it was when they got it three months ago" he said

With emergency room visits on the rise, doctors can help reduce hospital admissions [Published SCPR - 2 hours ago]

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Israeli, Palestinian doctors save lives at Hada... [Published Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - 9 mins ago]
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Preventable injuries filled Vanderbilt Universi... [Published Vanderbilt University - 1 hour ago]
Medical Student Awards for 2013 [Published University of Cincinnati - 1 hour ago]
STEVEN A. ROSE RECOGNIZED AS GRASSROOTS CHAMPION [Published Cape Gazette - 1 hour ago]
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With emergency room visits on the rise, doctors... [Published SCPR - 2 hours ago]
Mixed reaction from AMs over the South Wales Pr... [Published This Is South Wales - 3 hours ago]
Sound alarm on health risks [Published Philly.com - 3 hours ago]
ParadeRest marks Memorial Day with Keaton's sil... [Published Individual.com - 4 hours ago]
Pen Injectors Devices, Drugs and Combination Pr... [Published Individual.com - 4 hours ago]
GPs offered £560 to cover A&E nightshift [Published The Scotsman - 4 hours ago]
New additions to AMA Roll of Fellows [Published Australian Medical Association - 5 hours ago]
A&E crisis putting lives at risk - health chief... [Published Worcester Standard - 6 hours ago]
Medical personnel lead disaster management conf... [Published United States Marine Corps - 6 hours ago]
ED staff's Facebook time increased with patient... [Published HCPro - 6 hours ago]
Easily prevented, quickly tragic: Choking claim... [Published Miami Herald - 7 hours ago]
Tackle summer's bummers of sunburn, foodborne i... [Published Delmarva Daily Times - 7 hours ago]
West Virginia University Urgent Care [Published State Journal - 8 hours ago]
Major trauma service to be established at Morri... [Published This Is South Wales - 8 hours ago]
Titus EMS celebrates 40th anniversary [Published Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune - 9 hours ago]
[This Week in Medicine] May 25–31, 2013 [Published Lancet - 10 hours ago]
Reading Health System elects new leaders [Published Reading Eagle - 11 hours ago]
UHS course [Published The News International - 12 hours ago]
Hospital Celebrating National EMS Week May 19th... [Published Memphis Democrat - 13 hours ago]
UHS initiates training course for rescue agencies [Published Daily Times - 15 hours ago]
Medical Edge: Cuts and Scrapes [Published KAALtv.com - 15 hours ago]
Rating or hating ? the need to regulate [Published Irish Medical Times - 16 hours ago]
ER docs always there to help [Published York Daily Record - 18 hours ago]

Blogs

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Thalidomide - The Real Story & The First Seal B... [Published PharmaGossip - May 20 2013] http://www.healthworldnet.com/articles/the-best-of-the-best/the-first-seal-baby-the-real-story-of-thalidomide.html Thalidomide, despite its sordid past is undergoing a sort of renaissance and is being manufactured and used worldwide for a variety of ...
UB study finds passenger car drivers more likel... [Published Green Car Congress - May 15 2013] A new University at Buffalo (UB) study of crashes involving cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) has found that in head-on collisions between passenger cars and SUVs, drivers in passenger cars were nearly 10 times more likely to die if the SUV involved ...
Official Cause of Death Wrong at Least One Thir... [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - May 13 2013] Wonkblog‘s Sarah Kliff points to a Center for Disease Control survey finding that a third of US death certificates list the wrong cause of death. But the survey doesn’t really tell us that. Here’s how the report itself (“ Survey of New York ...
Study: Nearly half of all death certificates ar... [Published Ezra Klein - May 12 2013] Death certificates are important public health documents. They help epidemiologists understand leading causes of deaths and how they are changing. They power big studies of what killed us in the past—and what kills us now. And, according to a new ...
Developing Gun Violence Analytics Through Linke... [Published semanticweb.com - May 07 2013] Mary O’Leary of the New Haven Register recently wrote, “As a state, Connecticut has plenty of data on firearm violence from medical and law enforcement sources. But it’s never had a central repository where it can be linked and made available for ...

Audio/Video

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Emergency Department Telemedicine Initiative to... [Published UC Television - YouTube - May 17 2013]
Why You Shouldn't Treat Kids' Colds With Drugs [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - May 13 2013]

Press Releases

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Virtual Radiologic Appoints Dr. Benjamin W. Str... [Published PR inside - May 22 2013]
Power Publisher’s New Release Heart Break Medic... [Published PR inside - May 20 2013]
ACEP Announces 40th Annual National EMS Week, M... [Published PR Newswire - May 14 2013]
Physio-Control Introduces TrueCPR Coaching Devi... [Published Business Wire - May 14 2013]
Central Austin Opens Doors to Its First Freesta... [Published Business Wire Photo/Multimedia News - Apr 24 2013]