Nothing happy about a New Year heart attack
Nothing happy about a New Year heart attack
Associate Professor Paul Middleton, an emergency medicine expert who also chaired the NSW branch of the Australian Resuscitation Council, warned that excessive alcohol, food and stress could contribute to an influx of heart attack victims.
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Managing Malignant Hyperthermia at Ambulatory Surgical Centers
A panel of 13 experts who represent the Malignant Hypterthermia Association of the United States developed the guide assisted by experts in emergency medicine, anesthesia, ambulatory surgery, and nursing. They concluded that it is necessary for every …
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Experts' Picks: Best of the 2011 ACG Annual Scientific Meeting: Part 1
Dr. Bhutani: I think this study should alert physicians to avoid making the diagnosis of gastroparesis based on nonstandardized testing and to have a dialogue with their respective nuclear medicine departments to switch to standardized testing if they …
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Where's this 'growth' to come from?
Where's this 'growth' to come from?
Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP)? At some point, a Jamaican government will stop playing childish political games with our economy and tell us the truth, but it doesn't appear likely to begin any time soon. The previous government spoke of …
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Half of key A&E jobs left unfilled at eight hospitals
By Niall O'Connor EMERGENCY departments in eight hospitals here have more than half of their senior doctor positions unfilled, a survey shows. The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) is warning there exists an "unsafe deficit" of doctors …
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SpR-Accident & Emergency
Doctors applying for this job will be eligible for registration with the GMC and specific exposure to Emergency Medicine. To have a no confidential discussion please contact Shane Anthony on 0208 477 3636 E: or simply submit your CV via the job advert.
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A tale of thanks that won't be forgotten
2009.01.16 – Light weekend reading
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Day 104
I have my work cut out for me this weekend…. Deconstructing this tower of books is my first task. But this is only about 1/10th of the books on my "medicine" bookshelf. Ideally, I’d like to read all of them before next week. Being realistic: that’s probably not going to happen.
Emergency physicians often seem to be criticised by doctors from other specialties for not going into enough depth in our assessment or treatment of patients, but what they need to realise is that the emergency physician must be able to switch from dealing competently with a child with meningitis one moment to an elderly patient with a hip fracture the next, then perhaps to a young man with an industrial eye injury (being called away to resus halfway through for a middle-aged banker having a heart attack) and back again to a woman with a complication of pregnancy, before applying a plaster cast to a teenager with a broken ankle. And until the emergency physician begins to assess these patients, he has no idea what might be the problem; it is the emergency physician who must decide which of these books might best apply to the patient who is in pain and frightened about what might be wrong with them – that’s the hard bit! By the time the patient is referred to an inpatient specialty, a preliminary diagnosis has been made, many of the initial investigation results will be available, treatment will have commenced, and the patient might have had pain relief and a bit of time to re-think about the best way to tell their story accurately and concisely.
I like emergency medicine. By and large, I like my patients. I am often privileged to be able to relieve pain, close wounds, and sometimes save lives. It’s great.
Most of the time, I don’t like the NHS and I really don’t like interfering nonsense from the government and busybody managers about how to do my job. I don’t like late finishes followed by early starts and not having time to eat all day. I don’t like being too tired to study or go to the gym, or even talk to my friends.
But I still like emergency medicine 
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A tale of thanks that won't be forgotten
One explanation for the surge in fatal heart attacks around the holidays rings true to David John, an emergency room physician for 20 years: People feeling sick around Christmas or New Year's may put off getting help — and end up dead. …
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Physician Assistants Play Large Roles in the Healthcare Industry
COM, December 23, 2011 ) New York, NY — It won't come as a surprise why there are an increasing number of physician assistants working in doctor's office, clinics, hospital emergency room or nursing home. They practically fill in the shoes of primary …
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Ethical objections in Phila. push study of out-of-control seizures to York County
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Ethical objections in Phila. push study of out-of-control seizures to York County
Prolonged seizures can cause brain damage as well as breathing and heart problems and aspiration pneumonia, said Jill Baren, who directs emergency services for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and was in charge of Penn's part of this study.
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Do not panic: Sirens, shooter at UNK Friday are part of drill
University Police, the Kearney Police Department and Buffalo County Emergency Service Unit personnel will be in the area along with actors playing the roles of victims. All law enforcement will be in full gear and standard equipment for the exercise.
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Emergency transport company speeds past competition
STAT/SouthCoast provides both emergency and non-emergency transportation to hospitals, nursing homes and medical appointments and serves as back up to the towns of Dartmouth, New Bedford and Fall River, while STAT Ambulance has provided emergency …
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Nurses forced to pay to work in NSW hospitals
An emergency call went through the ward and, since the old woman was on "full active resuscitation", it required all five nurses in the ward to attend. TEACHING and nursing students will be forced to pay at least 25 per cent more for their degrees …
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FHTC graduate making a difference
Buchman is IV-certified, which means she can start IVs and deliver intravenous medications under the direct supervision of a registered nurse. She also can help deliver babies and take care of patients in the intensive care unit and emergency room. …
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Pediatric Emergency Departments Find Ways to Lower CT Use
Pediatric Emergency Departments Find Ways to Lower CT Use
In fact, lead investigator Margaret Menoch, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues found that between 2003 and 2010, in areas where …
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Search for Missing Woman is Urgent, Police Say
Regina Elizabeth Peterson was last seen walking out of Loma Linda University Medical Center's emergency room about 8:30 pm Saturday. By Gina Tenorio Regina Elizabeth Peterson, 37, of Fontana has not been seen since she walked out of Loma Linda …
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Senate plan includes "devastating" USF budget cut
By LINDSAY PETERSON | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA – University of South Florida trustees have called an emergency meeting this evening to address a Florida Senate proposal that would rip a hole in USF's budget. Under the plan, USF's state funding for the …
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CHELSEA: Chelsea Health Center adds specialty services, drops internal …
According to Greenberg, these three doctors staff the outpatient internal medicine practice. "From time to time, the University of Michigan makes strategic decisions about where to base their physicians," he said. "We didn't have anything to do with it …
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Doctors Research Physician Job – London
To be considered for the post you will hold a medical degree with current ALS/ACLS certification, possess previous or current experience of working within the UK healthcare structure with post graduate experience within eg internal medicine, …
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3 top DMC execs have new jobs
Mallett will be replaced by Dr. Reginald Eadie, an emergency medicine physician who has been president of Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2010. Iris Taylor, a registered nurse, will return to her former job heading Detroit Receiving. …
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Veteran doctor is honored by his patients, his daughter and, finally, a street …
Veteran doctor is honored by his patients, his daughter and, finally, a street …
Dr. Audrey Tatar is Arnold Tatar's daughter and shares a downtown internal medicine practice with her father and several other physicians. She told me that a man who has been a patient of her father's since 1962 came into the office last week to …
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Apple's Secret Plan to Steal Your Doctor's Heart
Luo — a second-year resident at the hospital's internal medicine department — had been assigned the tricky task of figuring out whether a pilot program that put iPads in the hands of the hospital's residents was working out. …
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CARDIOLOGIST
Requirements include MD or equivalent; 36 months fellowship training in cardiovascular disease; BC Internal Medicine and BE Cardiology; completion of level 2 training in Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular CT; experience in …
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Refreshed hospital facilities help recruit providers
Refreshed hospital facilities help recruit providers
By ADAM STEWART Laura Bevis, advanced registered nurse practitioner and doctor of nursing practice, remembers walking through St. Luke Hospital in Marion while it was being renovated and expanded last year. Stopping at a hallway intersection, …
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Nurse practitioner reduces unnecessary emergency department visits
The addition of a nurse practitioner to a busy hospital staff may decrease unnecessary emergency department visits, according to a study published in Surgery. According to the study, researchers found a nurse practitioner reduced emergency department …
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Ignorance isn't always bliss
Ignorance isn't always bliss
The CIC added that “competent authorities in the PMO” should look into this matter so that the records relating to the Emergency are “retrieved or traced”. The Mrs Gandhi-Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed correspondence may indeed be buried under heaps of files by …
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Michigan's recovery school district needs M from donors by fall
By Jennifer Chambers Chancellor John Covington, right, DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts and others attend an EAA board meeting Thursday. (Robin Buckson / The Detroit News) Detroit — Michigan's recovery school district will need $ 24.7 million for …
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Mandatory GPS for mobile phones proposed
By Stephen Bell | Wellington | Friday, 10 February, 2012 A discussion document issued through the Ministry of Economic Development on the current and future performance of the emergency-calling system fingers the increasing use of mobile devices and …
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