ED Legal Letter articles from August 2007

ED Legal Letter archives from August 2007

Patient Safety Organizations: Protecting peer review materials and improving patient safety?
August 1, 2007... Patient Safety Organizations: Protecting peer review materials and improving patient safety? by Robert A. Bitterman, MD, JD, FACEP, Contributing Editor Imagine a black box. Into the box you could put all hospital ED related peer-review...

Beware of inconsistent care when treating VIPs.
August 1, 2007... Beware of inconsistent care when treating VIPs Patients are "only as famous as you allow them to be" by Stacey Kusterbeck, Contributing Editor You might assume that when ED nurses and physicians care for VIPs — whether this...

Caring for government dignitaries: Report from an ED physician.
August 1, 2007... Caring for government dignitaries: Report from an ED physician Some rules broken, but never at the expense of other patients As former chief of emergency medicine for the largest hospital and medical treatment facility operated by the...

Do psych patients wait hours to be "medically cleared"?
August 1, 2007... Do psych patients wait hours to be "medically cleared"? Patients may escalate if interventions are delayed Some emergency physicians argue that the most urgent needs of psychiatric patients are often pushed aside in the ED until a wide...

Special Report: VP shunt malfunction in the emergency department.
August 1, 2007... Special Report VP shunt malfunction in the emergency department By Stephanie Rifkinson-Mann, MD, JD, Neurosurgical Consultant, Mount Kisco, NY; Attorney, New York City. Symptoms of shunt malfunction often can be misconstrued as...

CNE/CME Objectives/Questions.(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... CNE/CME Objectives After completing this activity, participants will be able to: 1. Identify legal issues relating to emergency medicine practice; 2. Explain how these issues affect nurses, physicians, legal counsel, management,...