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As 2017 comes to a close, VACEP would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the VACEP eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 4.
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MedPage Today
From Feb. 16: There are some obvious medical apps emergency medicine providers should have — we included these in our top 10 medical apps for emergency medicine list — there are also great medical apps that haven't gotten much attention, but emergency medicine providers could benefit from them tremendously.
These not-so-obvious medical apps range from orthopedic apps to toxicology apps to ultrasound apps.
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Dr. Mark Sochor, VACEP President 2015-2017, speaks in support of ED Care Coordination (HB 2209) before the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee.
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Working together with AAEM-Virginia Chapter: Dr. Joel Clingenpeel, AAEM VA Chapter President (left) confers with Aimee Perron Seibert, VACEP Lobbyist as Dr. Mark Sochor listens.
VACEP and emergency medicine are grateful for Aimee Perron Seibert’s success representing VACEP the past ten years.
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From March 2: The 2017 Virginia General Assembly session adjourned on Saturday, February 25. While this was a “short session,” the legislature was still very productive and considered over 2,000 bills in 46 days. The last agenda item they completed was voting on the final budget conference report, which passed the House 99-1 and 40-0 in the Senate.
This was Governor McAuliffe’s final legislative session and his last opportunity to get his policy priorities through. It is also an election year, with the entire House of Delegates and the statewide offices up for election in November.
As usual, healthcare continued to be a focus for the legislature. They were hesitant to pass any major reform bills due to the uncertainty at the federal level with the Affordable Care Act. One issue that was debated extensively is whether to reform the Certificate of Public Need program. Similar to last year, there was support in the House for reform, but the efforts came to a halt in the Senate. However, the Senate has said they will study this issue again over the next year, in context with the other changes coming down from the federal level.
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From April 13: In response to the opioid epidemic in Virginia, the legislature for the state of Virginia directed the Board of Medicine to create regulations for the treatment of acute and chronic pain. As emergency physicians who treat acute pain every shift we work, it is important to know what the new regulations are and how they might impact our prescribing patterns and what needs to be documented to be in compliance with the regulations.
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The Clinical Advisor
From April 13: The other day I was working with one of my attending physicians and we were busy dealing with a large influx of patients. I evaluated a child who had clear breath sounds and a fever. I treated the fever with some ibuprofen with plans to check back on the child later to see if there was any improvement in the overall appearance of the child. A few minutes later, the attending physician came into the station and mentioned that he had ordered a breathing treatment on the patient because he had thought he heard some wheezing.
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CBS News
From Jan. 5: For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea. “The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.
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Healio
From May 11: 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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WWBT-TV
From June 22: Emergency physician Dr. Deborah Vinton, MD was running a race in Richmond when she participated in CPR to save a runner. The patient, a father of three children was revived and taken to VCU Medical Center. Dr. Vinton was reunited with the patient along with an assisting flight paramedic who was at the race to cheer on his wife.
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MedPage Today
From Nov. 23: Drunks coming in to the emergency room can be a handful, but one doctor has a way with them — and a clean way to get them out of the ED's hair, Zahir Basrai writes for KevinMD. Such patients can be a drain on resources. They can be belligerent, mean, and uncooperative. Basrai has a few tricks for making them drop their act, and a backup plan in "Cares," a detox center. Since EDs can be liable if they release an intoxicated person who later gets in an accident, having a place for them to sober up is a huge help. When he sends them off, they're appreciative.
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From April 27: Dr. Luis Eljaiek, 2007 VACEP president and 2015 Annual CME Conference presenter on geriatric emergency medicine shared his excitement on the ACEP’s January announcement of a three-tier platform accreditation for implementing geriatric emergency department (GED) guidelines.
Emergency department providers across the nation recognize that, every shift, patients seem older. These observations are not an illusion. Aging baby boomers will increase the number of older ED patients every year for the next few decades. Vulnerable older patients often arrive to the emergency department with multiple comorbidities and vague chief complaints that require more complex decision making and prolonged evaluation times and increase the likelihood of admissions.
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FierceHealthcare
From April 13: There are positives and negatives to adding medical students to the rotation in the emergency department, but using them effectively can pay off for both providers and trainees.
Some hospitals may find that medical students in the ER can negatively impact patient satisfaction and flow because they need close supervision. But organizations can reduce those issues with a little hard work, wrote Michael Silverman, M.D., the chairman of emergency medicine at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, in a column published in MedPage Today.
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| VACEP Board of Directors |
Dec. 7 |
| VACEP/AAEM Reception |
Jan. 29, 2018 | 5:30-7:00 p.m. |
| VACEP White Coats on Call |
Jan. 30, 2018 | 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. |
| Annual CME Conference |
Feb. 9-11, 2018 |
| VACEP Annual Meeting |
Feb. 10, 2018 |
| VACEP Board of Directors |
Feb. 11, 2018 | 5:30-7:00 p.m. |
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