Mon.Mar 11, 2024

article thumbnail

SAEM Clinical Images Series: Not Your Usual Irritated Eye

ALiEM

In July 2022, a 32-year-old male with a past medical history of HIV (on antiretroviral therapy, CD4 390, viral load undetectable) presented to the emergency department with constitutional symptoms and a rash for 4-5 days. His symptoms included malaise, body aches, subjective fevers, a sore throat, tender, swollen neck glands, body rash, and irritation of his left eye.

article thumbnail

CMS Announced Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payments in Response to Change Healthcare Cyberattack

American Ambulance Association

On March 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the creation of the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) Program. Under the CHOPD Program, CMS will make […] The post CMS Announced Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payments in Response to Change Healthcare Cyberattack appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

Ambulance 130
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2024 Match Week

ACEP Now

ACEP Now wishes to congratulate the medical students who matched into emergency medicine today! This year, it is estimated that only about 137 of more than 3,000 spots remained unfilled as of Monday, March 11, 2024. This is in comparison to more than 550 unmatched positions last year. While the full explanation for the rebound in emergency medicine remains unknown, one potential reason is a large increase in international medical graduate applicants this year.

EMS 115
article thumbnail

CMS Statement on Continued Action to Respond to the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare

American Ambulance Association

From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on March 9 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing to monitor and assess the impact that the cyberattack […] The post CMS Statement on Continued Action to Respond to the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

Ambulance 130
article thumbnail

JC: Are long waits in A&E lethal for elderly patients?

St. Emlyn's

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Greg Yates (new to the St Emlyn's team) reviews for Journal Club a review of a JAMA paper on elderly deaths associated with long overnight waits on an ED trolley. #FOAMed @stemlyns The post JC: Are long waits in A&E lethal for elderly patients? appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

ED 80
article thumbnail

Lessons from the pandemic: Lagging indicators

First 10 EM

The time has come to learn from the pandemic; to learn from our mistakes (and hopefully a few successes). There are many topics to choose from. In future posts, I plan to be very positive about the tremendous work done by so many colleagues. I will probably also have to write about our incredible scientific […] The post Lessons from the pandemic: Lagging indicators appeared first on First10EM.

80
article thumbnail

An approach to the infant with plagiocephaly

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A 4-month-old boy presents to the paediatric ED. His parents are concerned about the appearance and shape of his head. They ask how this can be fixed. Before we get into the clinical case, let’s consider some anatomy and background. Sutures and skull development in infancy The skull is made up of five bones – two frontal bones , two parietal bones and an occipital bone.

E-9-1-1 59

More Trending

article thumbnail

Episode 32: Live from the State of Jefferson EMS Conference

The EMS Show

Dr. Sahni sits this one out, so Mike is joined by long time friend of the show, Dr. Jeff Jarvis! This was a super fun event. Just prior to recording, we had the last talk of the day on how we got started in Podcasting. Was nice to have about 50 folks listening to our story and interested! Then, when happy hour started and the drinks started flowing, we hit record!

EMS 40
article thumbnail

Cholera: ED presentation, evaluation, and management

EMDocs

Authors: Gaston Omba, MD (EM Resident Physician, Makerere University); Jessica Pelletier, DO (EM Education Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis) // Reviewed by: Joshua Lowe, MD (EM Staff Physician, USAF); Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case A 25-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) in Uganda with acute encephalopathy.

ED 89
article thumbnail

Escape Room - Placenta Previa

FOAMfrat

If you've never challenged an escape room, the concept is likely precisely what you think - you're locked inside a room and need to escape. However, you'll encounter challenges along the way. You'll have to solve riddles and puzzles to get to the next clue, and this process continues until you can unlock the door and let yourself out. Picture yourself in one of these rooms.