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New tool to assess emergency department patients Health News Digest Share     A new assessment tool, reported recently by the Journal of Hospital Medicine, may help hospitals avoid under- or over-treating patients who are admitted through hospital emergency departments. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have modified an early-warning tool that is commonly used to determine if hospitalized patients are getting sicker. With these changes, researchers may have developed a way for busy emergency departments (ED) to assess the risk of incoming patients and guide the critical decision of whether patients requiring hospitalization should be placed in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a standard room. More
Bills stalled, hospitals fear rising unpaid care The New York Times Share
President Obama says he aims to keep trying. But what happens if the health care legislation cannot be revived, and tens of millions of uninsured Americans continue without coverage? For the nation’s hospitals, at least, the cost of doing nothing in Washington translates into tens of billions of dollars each year in medical bills that go unpaid by patients with little or no insurance. More Three Ohio hospitals display emergency room wait times WCPN Share
One in three Americans will visit a hospital emergency room this year and unless they have a life-threatening situation, chances are they'll have to wait -- in some cases hours. However, users of the Akron General health system have a new tool to help them avoid those long waits: posting wait times for their three hospitals in Akron, Stow and Montrose, Ohio, on the Internet as well as on 6 local highway billboards. WCPN health reporter Gretchen Cuda tells the story. More One night, one emergency room BU Today Share
It's a typical unpredictable night at Boston Medical Center's emergency room: traumas rush in, drunk or high patients need (and refuse) detox, and a high-security prisoner has swallowed four sharpened metal pencil ends. The BMC emergency room is one of the busiest in New England, with physicians treating 130,000 patients a year. On an average day, 300 people stream through its three trauma and four emergency rooms, including a pediatric unit. Almost a third of all Boston EMS ambulances come here, according to Jennifer Mehigan, EMS director of media relations. More Gallup Poll: Health care reform now America's most divisive issue Newsweek Share
Today in public-opinion polls that shock no one, Gallup has a new survey showing American approval of Obama’s handling of health care reform is down to an all-time low. A mere 36 percent of us think the president is doing a good job on the issue. More Hospital's chest pain center an operational model Reading Eagle Share
Reading Hospital's Chest Pain Center in Reading, Pa., isn't a place, not a physical location. It's an operational model, a new system of managing patients presenting with chest pain in the emergency room and even earlier, according to medical experts there. And its effectiveness has given the hospital recent national recognition as well as accreditation last December with the national Society of Chest Pain Centers. More Hearts actually can break The Wall Street Journal Share
Doctors have identified a condition which occurs under sudden stress or emotion which overwhelms the heart and is often called a "broken heart." The mysterious malady mimics heart attacks, but appears to have little connection with coronary artery disease. Instead, it is typically triggered by acute emotion or physical trauma that releases a surge of adrenaline that overwhelms the heart. The effect is to freeze much of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, disrupting its ability to contract and effectively pump blood. More New mission planned for shock trauma The Baltimore Sun Share
The University of Maryland Medical Center has earned international recognition for its shock trauma center, which treats patients with severe injuries. Now the medical center is becoming home to the National Trauma and Emergency Medicine Training Center, which will prepare military and civilian health care workers to deliver Shock Trauma's caliber of care. More |
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