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Emergency Department Spotlight: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital

GEDC

The hospitals patient volume has more than doubled in the past couple of years, and the emergency department has expanded from seven beds to include two surge spots with four beds each. The emergency department receives an estimated 13,000 annual visits, with approximately 5,500 of those visits being older adult patients.

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The Effect of Paramedics in Emergency Department Triage on Ambulance Patient Offload Times

International Journal of Paramedicine

Background : Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding limits patient care in the prehospital and hospital system. Paramedics were added to the ED ambulance triage staff to receive verbal reports and perform certain tasks done traditionally by nurses.

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SGEM#414: The SQuID Protocol

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Case: A 28-year-old male with a history of type-1 diabetes mellitus presents to the emergency department (ED) with increase in thirst and light headedness. Just as all this is happening, you notice how the waiting room is filling up and you can hear the sirens of approaching ambulances becoming louder. He is otherwise healthy.

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SGEM#250: Scribes – I Want to Break Free (from the EMR)

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: March 20th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Katie Walker is an emergency physician in Melbourne, Australia. Case: The emergency department is backing up. You have ambulances ramping and patients queuing at triage. Date: March 20th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Katie Walker is an emergency physician in Melbourne, Australia.

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A First Look at Emergency Department Data for 2022

ACEP Now

The preliminary results of the 2022 Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance performance measures survey found a significant deterioration in patient processing due to inpatient boarding. Preliminary results of the survey are being released to help emergency physicians understand that current challenges are occurring nationwide.

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SGEM Xtra: This is My Life – Centralization of Rural Emergency Healthcare

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

There have been many “temporary” rural emergency department closures during the past last year. In Ontario alone there have been approximately 160 emergency departments (ED) temporarily closed since the beginning of 2022. It was a stepped-wedge reconfiguration of the entire Danish emergency healthcare system.

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How to Best Inspect, Protect, and Dress Wounds in the Emergency Dept.

ACEP Now

The pain makes it difficult for him to ambulate unassisted through his home. About three percent of emergency department (ED) visits are due to skin and soft tissue infections, but data are lacking on the contribution of chronic wounds to this number. Today, he notes worsening swelling and a blister forming near his left ankle.

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