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Ohio Posts Online Guide to Help EMS Pick Right Hospital
The Central Ohio Trauma System has created an online hospital resource guide for emergency personnel.
ED Visits for Concussions Soar Among Kid Athletes
The increase suggests the intensity of kids' sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.
Portable Ultrasound: 'Stethoscope of the Future'
The small color screen of the portable SonoSite ultrasound machine uses a graphic display of pulsating blue and red lights to show the direction of blood flow in a patient's carotid artery.
- Study: Fewer Kids Visiting ED for Household Chemical Poisonings, But Problem Remains
- Study: Interpreters in the ED Improve Patient and Health Provider Satisfaction
- Unotron's Washable Computer Keyboards Help Eliminate Spread of Viruses
- New California ED Remains 'Too Popular'
- Colorado Med Evac Adds High-Risk Obstetrics to Services
- High-Tech Hospitals: Ohio Program to Provide ED Wait Times, Medical Information Via Smartphones
- Holiday Weekend Doubles ED Visits for Underage Drinkers
- Baby Rushed to Deserted Massachusetts ED
- N.H. ED Lets Patients Check Wait Times by Text Message
- Report: 1 in 5 in the U.S. Visited ED in '07
- 'Fake Marijuana' Landing Colorado Kids in ED
- MEDHOST Launches OpCenter to Address Inpatient Throughput and Operational Issues at the Executive Level
- AsepticSure(TM) Hospital Sterilization System Demonstrates Total Eradication of Super Bugs
- TeleTracking Again Ranked Leading Patient Flow Solution
- New iPhone Application Improves Healthcare Communications
- Emergency Physicians' Attrition Rate Less than Two Percent Lower Than overall Average for Physicians
- Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council Partners with Practice Greenhealth
- First Choice ER Earns Top Honors at Dallas 100
- Mich. Police Fatally Shoot Suspect in Emergency Room
- Baxter Announces The Commercial Launch Of Hylenex At ACEP For Use In Pediatric Rehydration
- ACEP elects Dr. Sandra M. Schneider as its Next President
- Emergency Physicians' Top Safety Concerns Are Crowding and Shortages Of On-Call Specialists and Nurses
- Few Emergency Departments Meet Recommended Wait Times For Patients
- Inova Health System Responds to Simulated Terrorist Emergency
- Florida Hospitals Make Hurricane Preparations
- CoxHealth Selects MEDHOST To Boost Efficiency Across Its Three Emergency Departments And Two Urgent Care Centers
- Atlantic Partners with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to Create an Interactive & Educational Waiting Room
- Masimo Launches Enhanced Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ System to Help Hospitals Reduce Preventable Deaths on the General Floor
- Emergency Medical Associates Stays Ahead of Swine Flu Outbreaks This Back-to-School Season With SAP(R) Software
- ED Docs: South Florida Hospital 'Most Dangerous'
- Nebraska Medical Clinic Treats Weekend Athletes
- FreemanWhite Releases Podcast On Emergency Department Design
- Study: More Than Half of ED Nurses Have Been Assaulted
- Florida Hospital Decontaminates 17 Officers and K-9
- L.A. Hospitals Pay Physicians High Fees for On-Call ED Coverage
- New Mexico Hospital Investigates Prank Calls
- Tailoring a Comprehensive Electronic Health Record to Meet the Demands of the ED
- Report: Patients Spent an Average of Four Hours and Three Minutes in U.S. EDs in 2008
- Military Trains with Wisconsin Hospitals in Groundbreaking Disaster Drill
- Husband Charged in Fatal Florida Hospital Shooting
- Florida ED Puts Wait Times at Your Fingertips
- Quantum and IBM Align to Drive Medical Home Solution
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota to Receive National Award for Employee Vaccination Program
- Suspect Opens Fire in California ED with Police Gun
- Denver Health Changes Emergency Response Policy
- Fumes Force 500 to Evacuate Denver Hospital
- Remote Medicine: GWU Faculty Treat Antarctica Personnel
