Sentences with phrase «emergency patient at»

For the purposes of this requirement, «receive» means to not turn away a «walk - up» emergency patient at your door, if that patient is an «exotic» species.

There was a big stink late last year when an emergency patient at the Ottawa Hospital — crying in pain from a back injury, vomiting and begging for a place to curl up — was told by a fed - up staffer to lie on the floor.

Not exact matches

Nicholas Genes, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and a frequent blogger on medical apps, says it's fine if the FDA steps in to ensure that new technology protects patient safety and privacy, but he'll be concerned if the agency oversteps its bounds.

In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several dozen colleagues at other institutions, reveal that the composition of a patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.

I've never seen any kind of public campaign to persuade patients to apply some common sense before dropping themselves off at an emergency room.

And the prestigious Cleveland Clinic used the company's tools to identify the patients who were most at risk of potentially avoidable emergency - room admission, a step that enabled them to reach out to those patients proactively and provide them with care less expensively and more safely.

The command center pulls in information from more than a dozen data streams in real time, including patient health records, emergency dispatch service updates, lab results, and tabs on how many hospital beds are available at any given time.

By sharing in the profits or losses of these ventures, the parties say they work more closely to make sure a patient gets the right medicine or has access to a doctor at a nearby clinic instead of resorting to an emergency room.

Nicole Smith, who oversees certifications and wavers to dispense methadone at the national Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, told me over the phone that all methadone programs are required to have emergency contact services in place to reach patients, like the text message I received during the Colorado flood.

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Say the result that comes back is for a Northwell GoHealth Urgent Care location, but the patient would prefer to go to the emergency department at their preferred hospital.

VICTORIA — Despite the need for immediate action to fix emergency room overcrowding, inadequate staffing levels and increasing patient volumes at Fraser Health Authority hospitals, the Liberal government is instead buying time with a vague plan to review the health authority, say...

BURNABY — New Democrats say a series of troubling recent incidents show how the B.C. Liberal government's changes to emergency response policies are putting patients at risk.

What began as a needed emergency shot of adrenaline to the heart of the economic patient in late 2008 has now become a continuous IV drip the academicians at the Fed for now deem unacceptable to moderate, let alone remove.

Patients can seek emergency care, including the chance to win one of 15 weekend getaways, at www.vacationcarecenter.hilton.com.

And typically you won't see much of your doctor until it's time to push because she's helping other patients at the same time or dealing with an emergency.

In a hospital birth the two patients each have their own doctor (OB [or CNM] and, if needed, neonatologist or pediatrician) and nurse and / or other assistants (e.g. residents), plus a whole team ready to run in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's notice.

That conveniently elides the fact that nurses, anesthesiologists and other obstetricians ARE present at the hospital and emergencies can be handles by doctors other than the patient's personal physician.

Medical personnel at the Buffalo VA Medical Center failed to try to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016, pronouncing him dead even though they should have tried to save his life, the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General's Office said in a devastating report that recommended sweeping improvements in the facility's practices during life - or - death emergencies.

The incident, fuelled by rumours that the Lassa virus may have spread from neighbouring Ekiti State, led to other medical personnel as well as patients at the Emergency Unit of the hospital, fleeing the scene.

Iain Anderson, Royal College of Surgeons report author and a consultant general surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, urges improvements for emergency patients in the NHS.

At its launch, concerns were voiced that NHS Direct was designed to keep patients away from overburdened doctors» surgeries and emergency departments, offering them a «call centre» service instead.

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Health officials also said they are running unannounced drills at emergency rooms around the state using people posing as patients with Ebola - like symptoms.

«Our patients deserve a nurse at the bedside to care for their healthcare needs and often today there just are not enough nurses to provide that care,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, an Emergency Room RN at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and president of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA).

Officials in the emergency rooms at Health Alliance Hospital's Broadway campus and Northern Dutchess Hospital said there were no patients admitted to either hospital for fireworks - related injuries Saturday.

While the hospital's emergency services are still running, it's not admitting any new patients, said Lisa Tabora, an ER nurse at LICH.

Figures released today show Welsh A&E waits in March were worse than the «winter pressure» months, with only 70.8 % of patients at major emergency units discharged within 4 hours.

Functional and cognitive problems increased dramatically after patients arrived at the emergency department.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

The project included public training programs in defibrillators and compression - only CPR at schools, hospitals and major events such as the N.C. State Fair, plus additional instruction for EMS and other emergency workers on optimal care for patients in cardiac arrest.

In this new study, researchers compared 64 healthy control subjects to 75 patients who had experienced trauma that brought them to the emergency department at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, with whom the NYU School of Medicine has an affiliation agreement.

Kurt, like many patients brought to the psychiatric emergency room, arrived at the hospital in handcuffs.

Seeking to quantify and validate the concerns of their colleagues, the study's authors looked at the link between opioids administered in the emergency room and patient satisfaction scores more rigorously.

«Every health - care professional is likely to hear this call at some point while flying, but for most of us, treating patients on a plane is a completely unfamiliar scenario,» said Dr. Alun Ackery, an emergency physician at St. Michael's Hospital and senior author of the recommendations.

While the researchers couldn't tell specifically that doctors at the second emergency department had accessed the patient's records from the first ED, or that it impacted their decision - making if they did, the presence of an HIE at both hospitals means it would have been possible to do so.

The findings show that the use of repeat CT scans, chest X-rays and ultrasound scans was significantly lower when patients had both their emergency visits at two unaffiliated hospitals that took part in an HIE.

IHPI members are also looking at the effect of expansion on the mix of patients being seen in outpatient clinics and emergency departments around the state.

The study looked at 56 767 patients with chest pain who visited an emergency department in Ontario between April 2004 and March 2010.

Patients with multiple health issues and who are at higher risk of adverse events are less likely to receive follow - up care from a physician after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, reports a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

«The substantial variation in prescribing patterns of such extremely addictive medications for minor injuries results in many thousands of pills entering the community, and places patients at an increased risk of continued use and potentially addiction,» said lead author M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. «It's vital that we identify and understand the root causes of this growing issue.»

Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first and rely more on additional forms of long - term care, according to a new study co-authored by MIT economists.

In all, they found that patients in the two states underwent 20,139 repeat CT scans — meaning that 14.7 percent of those who had a CT scan in their first emergency visit had another one at their second emergency visit at another, unaffiliated hospital within a month.

For example, patients who received their first opioid prescription for an ankle sprain treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) commonly received prescriptions for anywhere from 15 to 40 pills, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Patients whose dialysis centers distributed a «dialysis emergency packet» — which includes information on a patient's medications, dialysis schedule, comorbid conditions, and geographical / contact information for dialysis centers — after the storm were more likely to later have copies of their medical records stored at home.

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Emergency Medicine.

«Detecting genetic associations in cases of acute viral bronchiolitis is the first step toward the development of tests to predict the possible clinical outcome for each patient diagnosed with the disease soon after arrival at the emergency room,» said Fernando Augusto de Lima Marson, a researcher at FCM - UNICAMP and one of the authors of the article.

Patients seen in the emergency department (ED) for chest pain who did not have a heart attack appeared to be at low risk of experiencing a heart attack during short - and longer - term follow - up and that risk was not affected by the initial diagnostic testing strategy, according to a study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds hundreds of dollars in health - care costs, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«We wanted to determine the risk to help assess whether this population of patients could safely go home and do further outpatient testing within a day or two,» said Dr. Michael Weinstock, a professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and chairman of the Emergency Department at Mt. Carmel St. Ann's Hospital.