How to make an emergency home cooling kit . Getting your home emergency ready can help to keep you and your family safe and ...

Background Inappropriate visits to emergency departments (EDs) could represent from 20% to 40% of all visits. Inappropriate use is a burden on healthcare costs and increases the risk of ED ...

At the intersection of those histories, Freedom House became an “origin story” for emergency medicine, says Hazzard, whose 2022 book brought renewed attention to the organization.

The emergency in emergency medicine The problem of “boarders” in ERs makes for worse patient outcomes, fragmented care, longer hospital stays, ballooning costs and rising frustration and anger ...

A proposal to require four years of emergency residency “threatens to burden future residents while failing to meaningfully improve the quality of their education,” an ER doc writes.

Objective Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) is an attenuated version of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score and has utility in predicting mortality in non-surgical ...

Methods Participants of an emergency medicine symposium participated in focus group discussions that were randomly divided into small groups ... and therefore he did not feel empowered to provide care ...

Patients presenting to U.S. emergency departments come for lots of different reasons that have nothing to do with an emergent medical condition—lack of insurance, convenience, lack of access to ...

Objective: To determine the clinical experience, management and training of emergency physicians in the suspected use of excessive force by law enforcement officers. Methods: Surveys were mailed to a ...

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), in partnership with Western Emergency Physicians, announces a new Department of Emergency Medicine. This development is a strategic ...

Aims: The use of ice or cryotherapy in the management of acute soft tissue injuries is widely accepted and widely practised. This review was conducted to examine the medical literature to investigate ...