https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from American College of Emergency Physicians Violence in the nation's emergency departments is increasing. More than 8 in 10 emergency physicians believe the rate of violence experienced in emergency departments has increased with 45% saying it has greatly increased over the past five years according to a new poll conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Marketing General Incorporated (MGI). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-poll-violence-emergency-departments-contributes.html Health Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:26:42 EDT news583079200 Despite overall improvements to care for a heart attack, women are less likely to receive timely treatment, according to a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-treatment-heart-gaps-access-persist.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Jun 2022 04:08:38 EDT news575176103 While drug overdose deaths reached an all-time high in 2021, opioid prescribing by physicians and clinicians dropped significantly in emergency departments that prioritized personalized feedback between peers, according to a new analysis in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-personalized-feedback-opioid.html Medications Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:37:41 EDT news569522255 Opioid overdose deaths have reached record highs and emergency physicians have a vital role in potentially saving these patients by prescribing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) such as buprenorphine, and by prescribing naloxone, a rapid-acting medicine to reverse an overdose. However, a new Annals of Emergency Medicine study identifies a significant opportunity to improve prescribing of these medicines after a visit to the emergency department for opioid overdose. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-gaps-treatment-opioid-disorder-overdose.html Addiction Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:45:56 EST news557513152 A new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine highlights the importance of protecting physician residents—early-career doctors still in training—and emergency care teams from incidents of physical or verbal abuse. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-emergency-physician-residents-health-workers.html Health Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:24:39 EDT news544116277 A new case report, detailed in Annals of Emergency Medicine, is the first known case of a patient with VITT (vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia) treated with a heparin alternative following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-emergency-physicians-safely-vaccine-induced-blood.html Medications Tue, 04 May 2021 12:55:39 EDT news539351737 Despite the nation's growing reliance on emergency departments, large areas of rural America are experiencing shortages of emergency physicians, according to a new emergency medicine workforce analysis in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-analysis-reveals-worsening-shortage-emergency.html Health Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:43:38 EDT news516462216 The signs of physical abuse among elderly people can be challenging for health care professionals to recognize, resulting in as few as one in 24 cases being reported to authorities. However, a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine explores injury patterns and characteristics to help experts spot key differences between abuse and unintentional injury. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-injury-patterns-differentiate-accidents-physical.html Health Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:54:27 EDT news515159665 Emergency physician-led teams are on the frontlines of coronavirus treatment, prevention and response. JACEP Open, a new official open access journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), explores coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns in two new analyses. The first paper explores risk factors for transmission while the second outlines broad public health concerns amplified during an outbreak. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-jacep-analyses-explore-coronavirus-factors.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 28 Feb 2020 03:42:47 EST news502083759 The emergency department is being increasingly utilized as a patient's best or only treatment option for opioid use disorder (OUD). New analysis in Annals of Emergency Medicine shows that the prevalence of patients who visited emergency departments at four Indiana hospital systems for repeat opioid-related emergencies jumped from 8.8 percent of all opioid-related visits in 2012 to 34.1 percent in 2017—nearly a four-fold increase in just five years. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-er-opioid-related-emergencies.html Medications Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:50:03 EST news500748601 New research in the January edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine reveals that cooling with running water is the best initial treatment for a child's burn. Researchers found that cool running water can reduce the odds of needing a skin graft, expedite healing and lessen the chance that a young burn victim requires admission to the hospital or an operating procedure. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-cool.html Health Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:32:27 EST news499617142 Diagnosing EVALI—the e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury illness that's recently garnered national attention—can be challenging. Initial symptoms may resemble pneumonia or go unrecognized, according to case analysis in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (JACEP) Open, a new open access journal. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-vaping-emergencies-unrecognized.html Health Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:53:58 EST news498394435 Electric currents generated by mobile phone chargers, particularly from lower-cost generic manufacturers, are causing serious injuries. Generic mobile phone chargers are less likely to meet established safety and quality tests than the brand counterparts, according to analysis and case studies in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-mobile-chargers-escalate-electrocution.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:35:54 EDT news483276937 Older adults go to the emergency department more often than other age groups, stay longer, and typically require more resources and medical interventions. The most common conditions among geriatric frequent users include diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, congestive heart failure and blockage or damage to veins or arteries, according to new research in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-diabetes-tops-common-conditions-frequent.html Health Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:00:07 EST news467875699 Much attention is given to opioid overdose, but opioid withdrawal is a high-risk period where patients could experience serious health complications or revert to misuse or abuse, according to a new clinical review in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-medication-assisted-treatment-patients-opioid-complications.html Medications Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:40:39 EST news466342832 Contact lenses are worn by an estimated 45 million Americans. Improper care or wear, like going to sleep without removing your lenses, can lead to infections of the cornea like microbial keratitis, which can lead to serious health problems. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-contact-lenses-dangerous-infection.html Ophthalmology Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:00:03 EST news464420796 After a serious injury, the leading cause of death is loss of blood. Major trauma victims who receive transfusions of packed blood 22 days old or older may face increased risk of death within 24 hours, according to a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-transfusions-older-blood-linked-adverse.html Surgery Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:57:54 EST news462632266 Prompt action from a bystander can impact the likelihood a person survives cardiac arrest that occurs outside of a hospital. One common and proven intervention that anyone can learn is Hands-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Hands-Only CPR training kiosks are becoming more widespread and are an effective training tool, a new Annals of Emergency Medicine analysis finds. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-hands-only-cpr-kiosks-bystander-intervention.html Cardiology Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:00:02 EST news461221780 New evidence-based guidelines, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with input from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and others put forward recommendations for a broad range of health care providers responsible for detection and management of pediatric mild traumatic brain injury, most of which are concussions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-cdc-guidelines-treatment-pediatric-mild.html Neuroscience Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:11:06 EDT news455375460 First responders to major chemical exposure incidents in the United States can improve treatment protocols for at-risk casualties with better communication strategies, according to new analysis in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-chemical-exposure-incident-response.html Health Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:04:46 EDT news454939478 Nearly six percent of urinary tract infections analyzed by a California emergency department were caused by drug-resistant bacteria in a one-year study period, according to new research in Annals of Emergency Medicine. The bacteria were resistant to most of the commonly used antibiotics. And, in many cases, patients had no identifiable risk for this kind of infection, the study found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-antibiotic-resistant-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:47:16 EDT news454081628 A pelvic exam does not improve a physician's ability to diagnose certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in adolescent female patients. That is chief among several reasons why the exam's "routine performance should be reconsidered," according to new research in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-pelvic-exams-stds-adolescent-girls.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:04:05 EDT news449841833 Following emergency care for an opioid overdose, an emergency department-facilitated transition to outpatient care is more likely to lead to healthier patient outcomes when it begins with Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in the emergency department, according to a review of current evidence published in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-emergency-departments-gaps-opioid-abuse.html Medications Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:42:54 EDT news448202565 Compared to other medical settings, emergency patients who are prescribed opioids for the first time in the emergency department are less likely to become long-term users and more likely to be prescribed these powerful painkillers in accordance with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. A paper analyzing 5.2 million prescriptions for opioids is being published online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Opioid Prescribing for Opioid-Naïve Patients in Emergency Department and Other Settings: Characteristics of Prescriptions and Association with Long-Term Use"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-09-patients-opioids-er-long-term.html Medications Tue, 26 Sep 2017 02:27:35 EDT news425611634 Emergency physicians in Michigan propose a new health care delivery model for rural populations that depends on a partnership between emergency medicine and primary care and seeks to reverse the trend of failing health in underserved parts of the country. Their proposal was published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("An Emergency Medicine-Primary Care Partnership to Improve Rural Population Health: Expanding the Role of Emergency Medicine"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-ers-population-health-rural-areas.html Health Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:47:38 EDT news421602449 More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of injuries sustained in a fall suffered adverse events—including additional falls, hospitalization and death—within 6 months. The results of a study examining how risk factors predict recurrent falls and adverse events were published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Revisit, Subsequent Hospitalization, Recurrent Fall and Death within 6 Months after a Fall among Elderly Emergency Department Patients"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-falls-declines-seniors.html Health Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:15:41 EDT news418572930 States that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) saw 2.5 emergency department visits more per 1,000 people after 2014, while the share of emergency department visits by the uninsured decreased by 5.3 percent. The results of a study of 25 states will be published online Monday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, along with an accompanying editorial. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-medicaid-expansion-states-er-uninsured.html Health Mon, 19 Jun 2017 02:57:08 EDT news417059817 An electronic sepsis alert using a combination of vital signs, risk factors and physician judgment to identify children in a pediatric emergency department with severe sepsis reduced missed diagnoses by 76 percent. The results of the study, along with an accompanying editorial, were published online Friday in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-pediatric-protocol-sepsis-percent.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:39:37 EDT news415989566 Chest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiting to be discharged than patients whose lab results were delivered to the electronic patient record on the hospital computer system. The results of a randomized, controlled trial of a quality improvement initiative were published online Tuesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Push-Alert Notification of Troponin Results to Physician Smartphones Reduces the Time to Discharge Emergency Department Patients: A randomized Controlled Trial"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-05-smartphones-er-discharge-patients-faster.html Health Fri, 12 May 2017 10:00:03 EDT news413801988 Despite standard use for the itching associated with urticaria (commonly known as hives), prednisone (a steroid) offered no additional relief to emergency patients suffering from hives than a placebo did, according to a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group study published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Levocetirizine and Prednisone Are Not Superior to Levocetirizine Alone for the Treatment of Acute Urticaria: A Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-05-hives-steroids.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 03 May 2017 11:28:28 EDT news413029648