Emergency Medicine news and information

Seven months after the Aurora Theater shooting, the doctors and nurses who worked tirelessly through the night to keep the victims alive are only now starting to reflect on their own heroism.
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The two physicians sworn in as new members of the House of Representatives, Drs. Ami Bera and Raul Ruiz, are both California Democrats, and physician groups said it's their backgrounds as primary-care and emergency physicians that could serve as factors in improving the country's healthcare...
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Fraud isn't at the root of a spike in providers' billing for emergency services, a new opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine asserts.
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NYU Langone Medical Center, the badly battered 786-bed facility that was shuttered by October's “superstorm” Sandy, resumed many of its operations today, but its emergency room remains closed and will continue routing patients to other facilities.
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A Medicaid redesign by West Virginia that aimed to give recipients individual choices and responsibility had unintended consequences, according to a recent report by George Mason University's Mercatus Center.
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A Massachusetts ban on ambulance diversion did little to increase emergency department overcrowding, research from an Annals of Emergency Medicine study concluded.
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"Recovery Mode” (Dec. 10, p. 6) did a nice job of highlighting the need for hospitals to have a disaster plan in place and to test that plan on a regular basis. We work with healthcare providers and other...
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“Earthquake Surgery” would be a good title for Outliers' next (and first) rock album, and—while performing surgeries during earth-shaking tremors is not advised—being able to complete post-quake surgery now appears to be possible.
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An effort to connect non-emergent ER patients with a primary-care provider showed some success in increasing primary-care follow-up over the next year, a new study finds.
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In the aftermath of the shootings in Newtown, Conn., a group representing emergency physicians renewed its call for a ban on assault weapons, while a leader of another doctors organization questioned whether the healthcare industry is doing enough to help curb violence.
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