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Tips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department

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9 Being bilingual is often not enough to be a medical interpreter, which requires precision, experience, and knowledge of medical jargon, as well as culturally specific idioms and phrases. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, et al. Ginde A, Sullivan A, Corel B, at al. Benda NC, Bisantz AM, Butler R, et al.

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ACEP Rejects “Excited Delirium”

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In 2009, the Excited Delirium Task Force convened by an ACEP Council resolution authored a white paper that endorsed the existence of excited delirium syndrome and made recommendations for identifying and managing it clinically. In a comprehensive review of the history of this term, Bhatia, et al.

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