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Health Matters: Emergency Room Fog
WCTV, FL - 21 hours ago
The study appears in the new "Annals of Emergency Medicine." The authors say ER's do a better job making sure patients go home with clear information and ...
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The study results which are published in the July issue of Academic Emergency Medicine show that using a 64-slice CT scanner is more cost-effective than the ...
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Doctor named hero of emergency medicine
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Beijing prepares emergency medicine supply for Olympics
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BEIJING (Xinhua) -- Beijing has invested 29 million yuan (4.1 million US dollars) in an emergency reserve of drugs and medical equipment for the Olympic ...
New Editor-in-Chief Named for Academic Emergency Medicine
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Jul 15, 2008
2008-07-15 20:53:42 - David C. Cone, MD has been named as the next Editor-in-Chief for Academic Emergency Medicine The Society for Academic Emergency ...
Hospital's doctor emergency
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This is what the Chair of the NSW Faculty of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Tony Joseph, said last week. He was commenting on Health ...
Stanford doctor helps lead emergency care training in Iraq
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... Medical Alliance for Iraq and funded by the State Department, the group's mission is to help set up Iraq's first formal system of emergency medicine. ...
Prevention Partnerships And Data Sharing: Keys To Curbing Knife ...
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The key, he concludes, is that emergency medicine personnel must be directly involved in partnership prevention work.
Study: ER patients often are overloaded with information
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In a study published recently in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, researchers found that 78 percent of patients do not fully understand the care and ...
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Forum: Emergency Medicine Posted By: Eutopia Post Time: 07-21-2008 at 10:48 PM.
emergency medicine review? pier 7?
Student Doctor Network Forums - Emergency Medicine
Hi Everyone, I need to review some EM -- what question banks do people use for the annual board exam? I hear Pier 7 is a CD available on the ACEP website -- is there anything else? any thought son Pier 7? thanks!!
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Change-proof Lortab scripts
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So I was writing my 30th Lortab script for the day, and I wrote for 5/500 Lortab, and then realized that I meant to write for 7.5/500, so I just added a "7." in front of the 5/500 and realized if I could do it, so could my patients. ...
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ER patients often don’t grasp discharge orders
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