Okay, just one final post on air travel. This morning a colleague called my attention to another fascinating account of in-flight health care, wherein an …
Category: Emergency medicine
When the call button calls: A hospitalist's thoughts on delivering care at 30,000 feet
I spend a lot of time on airplanes. And - surprise, surprise - I also spend a fair amount of time traveling with doctors on …
The dangers of caffeinated alcohol drinks
Much has been in the news lately about the dangers of caffeinated alcohol drinks, and experts weighed in with their concerns in a recent HealthDay …
ED physician recounts a high-speed motor-vehicle accident
StorytellERdoc's frightening account of the emergency room aftermath from a high-speed automotive accident: Our eyes met. I walked up to the head of the bed …
Emergency room interventions may reduce alcohol-based violence among teens
A brief counseling session or computerized intervention with teens who show up at the emergency room could help them avoid future alcohol use and violence. …
Emergency room as soup kitchen
During the debate over health-care reform, we heard a lot about emergency rooms jammed with people who couldn't afford to go to a doctor. Today, …
Ambulance drivers: slow down, it won't hurt
Faster emergency transport doesn't improve the survival rates of serious trauma patients; in fact, it probably kills more patients and emergency workers, as Slate magazine reports.
Faster emergency transport doesn't improve the survival rates of serious trauma patients; in fact, it probably kills more patients and emergency workers, as Slate magazine reports.
Word docs: New phrases for the emergency room
There's some fun for wordsmiths over at The Central Line, the blog of the American College of Emergency Physicians. They've posted medical-centric neologisms, such as: …
Windows ER?
A team of Microsoft researchers is exploring ways to use electronic displays to help keep patients in the loop about their own care. They recently developed and evaluated a cut-and-paste prototype for a personalized patient information display inside patient rooms in the emergency department of a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. The team will present their results on April 15 at this year's Computer-Human Interface conference in Atlanta.
A team of Microsoft researchers is exploring ways to use electronic displays to help keep patients in the loop about their own care. They recently developed and evaluated a cut-and-paste prototype for a personalized patient information display inside patient rooms in the emergency department of a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. The team will present their results on April 15 at this year's Computer-Human Interface conference in Atlanta.
An iPad rounds in the emergency department
Larry Nathanson, MD, has just written a generally positive first impression of the iPad in clinical use at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's emergency department. …
Haiti day 3: Amputees
Bel Jean still hopes to be a priest. But there is a problem. "You need two arms to elevate the mass," explains the 29-year-old, raising …
Most valuable tools for physicians working in Haiti
Today Medgadget is reporting on the tools Stanford emergency physician Paul Auerbach, MD, found most helpful during his time helping earthquake victims in Haiti. Among …
New flu brew due?
From the Just Over the Hill Dept.: Could the part of the world that gave us Dracula and Frankenstein be incubating some tiny monsters? Way …
Uptight staying upright
I fall. And when I fall, I usually hit my head. Hard. So, as I've followed the sad news about Natasha Richardson, I've fretted and …