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Medical Malpractice Insights: A Tale of 2 Injection Injuries

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Editor’s Note : The premise of Med Mal Insights is that we learn better from stories than we do from reports, “white papers” and seminars. Chuck Pilcher, MD, FACEP Editor, Medical Malpractice Insights Editor, Med Mal Insights A Tale of 2 Injection Injuries Only one patient returns to work with full use of his hand.

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[PRESS RELEASE] Paramedic Chiefs of Canada release vision for future focused on patients, evidence, and ongoing learning

Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

Since the release of that white paper, PCC has worked to update that vision to respond to challenges in the health-care sector in Canada. Learn More Paramedic Chiefs of Canada: www.paramedicchiefs.ca and Kelly Nash, Executive Director, PCC kellynash@paramedicchiefs.com / (403) 463-1210

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Protecting Your Department’s Mental Health

ESO

According to the Ruderman White Paper on Firefighter mental health and wellness, the suicide rate for firefighters is 18 out of 100,000 (compared to 13 out of 100,000 for the general population). Just as important as EMS clinicians’ and firefighters’ physical health, is the protection of their mental health.

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Examining the 2020 Vision of EMS

High Performance EMS

Yet it wasn’t until 1966 that the National Academy of Sciences ‘white paper,’ officially titled “ Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society ,” that ambulances began to transform from a side business at funeral homes into our modern Emergency Medical Systems of today.

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Balance Boards to Stay Active in the Offfice: Interview with Joel Heath, CEO of FluidStance 

Medgadget

A synopsis of that research can be found in these white papers. We supplemented that research with CO2 analysis while working with Westmont College. The Mayo Clinic and the University of Idaho have also done numerous tests with our product. Medgadget: What’s next? Any exciting new plans?

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Tips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department

ACEP Now

Promoting appropriate use of physicians’ non-English language skills in clinical care: A white paper of the Commission to End Health Care Disparities with recommendations for policymakers, organizations and clinicians. Annals of EM. 2012; 60(5): 545-553. Regenstein M, Anders E, Wynia MK. American Medical Association , Chicago IL 2013.

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ACEP Rejects “Excited Delirium”

ACEP Now

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. American College of Emergency Physicians white paper report on excited delirium syndrome.

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