STANFORD, Calif. -- Allowed a 40-minute nap midway through 12-hour night shifts, emergency room residents and nurses responded with more vigilance and vigor, found researchers here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- An emergency department in Albany, N.Y., is using ER visits as teaching moments to instruct patients how to program cell phones with I-C-E (in case of emergency), with contact names and numbers. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Bicycle crashes are more likely to be fatal when the rider has been drinking, is an adult male, has a collision with a car, or is riding on a high-speed roadway, reported researchers here. »»»
ATLANTA -- Older patients are about as likely to be seen in the emergency room for adverse drug events as they are for automobile accidents, according to a CDC study. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Stroke patients are likely to be unaware of what is happening to them and that it is an urgent medical matter, reported researchers here. »»»
MILWAUKEE -- When patients with chest pain arrive at the emergency department, they may get profiled, before decisions are made on care, by race, female gender, and insurance coverage, reported researchers here. »»»
MADRID -- Starting artificial nutrition early but at a limited energy requirement may protect against liver dysfunction for intensive care patients with sepsis, according to a large cohort study here. »»»
LOS ANGELES -- Older patients admitted to a large academic medical center on busy shifts may have a greater mortality risk than those who come to the hospital on less frenetic days, suggested investigators here. »»»
CHICAGO -- A widely available blood test for heart failure should be used more frequently when patients arrive at the emergency department with shortness of breath, researchers said here. »»»
STANFORD, Calif. -- Allowed a 40-minute nap midway through 12-hour night shifts, emergency room residents and nurses responded with more vigilance and vigor, found researchers here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- An emergency department in Albany, N.Y., is using ER visits as teaching moments to instruct patients how to program cell phones with I-C-E (in case of emergency), with contact names and numbers. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Bicycle crashes are more likely to be fatal when the rider has been drinking, is an adult male, has a collision with a car, or is riding on a high-speed roadway, reported researchers here. »»»
ATLANTA -- Older patients are about as likely to be seen in the emergency room for adverse drug events as they are for automobile accidents, according to a CDC study. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Stroke patients are likely to be unaware of what is happening to them and that it is an urgent medical matter, reported researchers here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- A brightly colored, attractively packaged household cleaning product called Fabuloso has led to a rash of emergency department visits for accidental ingestion, toxicology researchers reported here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Today's cell phones don't disrupt emergency department telemetry, and patients and visitors should be allowed to use them, contended researchers here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- In acute ischemic stroke patients, mechanical snares and other devices that remove clots can improve survival and functional outcomes, investigators reported here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- CT scans for patients with suspected acute appendicitis add no diagnostic value and may be associated with worse outcomes, researchers reported here. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- Even when the "door-to-balloon" time for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is longer than the 90-minute goal, 21% of patients get no fibrinolytic reperfusion while they are waiting. »»»
NEW ORLEANS -- The age of patients, how they ride to the emergency department, and how busy it is on arrival all factor in to whether those with pneumonia get antibiotics within the recommended four hours. »»»