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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

It was submitted in 2008 to the National Quality Forum (NQF), which convenes external groups to endorse measures. Accessed July 13, 2023. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and maintained the measure. NQF re-endorsed the measure in 2014. In November 2018, CMS withdrew the measure. CMS website.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. 2008) Shprecher, Schwalb, Kurlan. Consultation with neurosurgery is essential as these patients need source control in addition to standard antimicrobial therapy for meningitis or encephalitis. Neuroradiology. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. She’s there because your hospital is under-resourced, has injury or illness not thought related to gravidity, is too “sick” to make it to OB Labor/Delivery, or you’re trying to get OR to open. Chandrasekhar, S., Bulich, L. Topulos, G.