Mayo Clinic First Aid and ED Finder on your Cell Phone

Mayo Clinic and Digital Cyclone (a subsidiary of Garmin) have collaborated to develop a software application that delivers an array of health information and tools directly to cellular phones. The Mayo Clinic InTouch wireless health program will be available next week offering wireless phone subscribers a rich health resource directly on their phone with immediate [...]

Coral Springs mother died from massive overdose given by Broward General nurse

From the Sun Sentinel:
The Coral Springs mother went to the emergency room feeling sick after running out of medicine. But instead of just getting a refill, she died when a nurse gave her a massive overdose of a seizure drug, according to hospital officials and state records.The nurse at Broward General Medical Center injected Michelene [...]

ACEP Blogger

Welcome to Gardner’s Gate. I am the first ever official American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blogger. I am a practicing emergency physician and I currently serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Directors of ACEP. I plan to use this space to talk about the business of the college, the state of medical [...]

CPR Glove

From Medgadget:
CPR Glove A Potential Lifesaver
Biomedical engineering students Corey Centen and Nilesh Patel at McMaster University hope to win the Ontario Engineering Competition with their ‘CPR glove’.
Two engineering students from McMaster University have invented what they believe is the solution: the CPR Glove. They have entered a prototype of their innovative device in this [...]

ER chest pain tests driven by race, gender, insurance

From the Asbury Park Press:
Race, gender and health insurance status strongly influence how U.S. hospital emergency departments evaluate patients with chest pain, says a new study.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University analyzed data on 7,068 patients, 30 years or older, who had chest pain and went to an emergency department [...]

Traditional CT Scans Often Miss Strokes

From the AP wire:
The most common method of diagnosing a stroke in the emergency rooms catches only about one out of every four cases, far fewer than an MRI scan, which also was better at spotting the type of stroke, a U.S. government funded study showed.
The study led some experts, writing in the [...]