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Tips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department

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emergencies, patient’s request). However, actual increases in available services in emergency departments based on prior state-level requirements have been mixed. Annals of EM. Google translate as a tool for emergency department discharge instructions? Annals of EM. 2012; 60(5): 545-553. Not so fast!

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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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