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| | NEWS FROM VACEP AND VIRGINIA |
“ACEP routinely reviews chapter bylaws and requests minor changes to them. VACEP has complied with making the changes. The revised bylaws were emailed to all VACEP physicians May 8, 2017. We are requesting physicians review and support the revised bylaws,” said Dr. K. Scott Hickey, MD, FACEP, VACEP Bylaw Review Committee chairman.
Members are asked to record their votes by June 7, 2017. None of the changes impact how VACEP operates.
Two well-known Virginia emergency physicians will be recognized during ACEP17 in Washington DC.
Dr. Pamela P. Bensen, MD, MS, FACEP, is the recipient of ACEP’s 2017 Curmudgeon Award.
Dr. Bensen, an VACEP alternate Councillor, has been engaged in the practice of emergency medicine a every level of national leadership.
Francis L. Counselman, MD, CPE, FACEP, was the recipients of the 2017 Leadership and Excellence Awards for Outstanding Contribution in Education.
Dr. Counselman, Chair of Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Emergency Medicine department, has a long history of providing leadership at every level of the house of medicine.
| | NEWS FROM ACEP AND OTHER IMPORTANT PARTNERS |
 JOIN US IN TEACHING BYSTANDERS TO PUSH TO SAVE DURING EMS WEEK, MAY 21-27 2017
American Medical Response, International Association of Fire Chiefs and American College of Emergency Physicians are joining forces to provide the most extensive Bystander CPR trainings ever!
ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE
Invite your local public safety personnel to partner with you.
HOW TO JOIN THE EFFORT
Plan to train individuals, organizations, businesses, bystanders or students in your communities (some communities even reach out to beach goers, grocery shoppers or sports spectators) during EMS Week 2017. (May 21-27)
- If necessary, get permission from the proper authority
- Set up simple training using a manikin and teach bystanders the three simple steps of CPR.
LEARNERS MUST PRACTICE SOME COMPRESSIONS AND KNOW THE STEPS BELOW
Check for responsiveness, if you find an adult that does not respond:
- Call 911
- Push hard and fast in the center of the chest until help arrives
- If others are available, switch compressors before you tire or every 2 minutes
- Tell someone to get an AED if possible
TO REPORT YOUR NUMBERS
At the end of your training session, log into the CPR Challenge Reporting webpage to document the number of individuals you trained.
| | NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY |
U.S. News & World Report
The key to preventing more suicide attempts might start at a helpful if not obvious place: the emergency room.
The National Institute of Mental Health found that hospital emergency departments could decrease the number of further adult suicide attempts as much as 30 percent, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Healio
A 73-year-old man was referred to the neuro-ophthalmology service for evaluation of headache with associated right upper eyelid ptosis. Two weeks before presentation, he noted the onset of right-sided periorbital headache, which intensified upon lying down. The headache was intermittent but worsened over the subsequent days, and this corresponded with drooping of his right upper eyelid.
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HealthDay News
Undetected or "silent" seizures may contribute to some symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, such as confusion, a small study suggests.
The seizures occur in the hippocampus — a part of the brain involved in the consolidation of memories. Researchers suspect that treating these seizures could help manage Alzheimer's or possibly slow it down.
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Medical Xpress
Survival rates have risen dramatically in recent years among children who develop sepsis, a severe, life-threatening immune reaction to an infection somewhere in the body. But new research being presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting shows that recovery remains a long haul for patients, with many still feeling effects on their physical, social, emotional and school functioning for months after they are discharged from the hospital.
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Medical Xpress
Point-of-care ultrasound assessment of distal forearm injuries in children is accurate, timely, and associated with low levels of pain and high caregiver satisfaction. That is the main finding of a study to be published in the March issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Healio
Patients with an unknown blood type could receive O Rhesus D–positive blood cell concentrates in urgent red blood cell transfusions, according to a prospective, single-center, observational study.
This transfusion policy demonstrated a low risk for inducing anti-D alloimmunization, while saving 10% of total demand of O Rhesus D–negative red blood cell concentrates.
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HealthImaging
Researchers from the surgery and radiology departments at Yale University have developed a clinical-ultrasound scoring system that may be both sensitive and specific enough to preclude the use of CT for patients with suspected appendicitis.
The authors note that CT’s proven facility for accurately ruling out appendicitis in negative cases — and thus heading off unneeded appendectomy — comes at the cost of exposing the patient to ionizing radiation.
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ACEP via EurekAlert
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 in Annals of Emergency Medicine. "Prednisone is a strong and great drug for certain problems, but it is no better than antihistamine treatment for patients who are itching with hives," said lead study author Caroline Barniol, MD, of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Toulouse, France.
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By Christina Thielst
 Telemedicine and telehealth services have been connecting patients and providers who aren't sitting in front of each other for many years. The trend has been picking up speed in more recent years as some encounters leverage the internet and go virtual to contact their physicians or submit monitoring data. Now, more patients are using telemedicine to obtain a second opinion from specialists and subspecialists without having to travel into a larger city, or across the country.
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