Code Friday

Amusing post to the Student Doctor Network: Attention Please! Attention Please! Code Friday! Attention please! Attention please! Attention please! This is the hospital PBX operator addressing all patients currently waiting in primary waiting rooms in the medical office building portion of the medical center. It is now 3:00 pm on Friday. Your primary care doctor’s [...]

CVS Caremark’s MinuteClinic and Allina Hospitals & Clinics Form Strategic Partnership

From PRNewswire (tip from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog): MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), and Allina Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota and western Wisconsin have formed a partnership to pursue collaborative activities that will focus on enhancing high-quality health care services in the communities they serve. MinuteClinic is [...]

Airhead

Ed. Sorry, couldn’t resist. From Emergency Medical Journal: Spontaneous intraparenchymal tension pneumocephalus triggered by compulsive forceful nose blowing.

Complementary therapy use amongst Emergency Medicine patients

From Complementary Therapies in Medicine: Objectives To determine the percentage of Emergency Medicine patients using Complementary Therapies (CTs), to investigate what types of CTs are used most commonly, and to gauge the acceptability of studies of CT effectiveness in a hospital setting. Method Prospective cross sectional survey using a convenience sample of adult patients, presenting [...]

Emergency treatment of acute ischemic stroke: Expanding the time window

From Current Treatment Options in Neurology: Opinion statement:  Intravenous thrombolysis has been shown to improve outcome in patients with ischemic stroke if given within the first 3 hours. This benefit extends into a 4.5-hour time window when applied in a more selected patient population. Strokes from large-vessel intracranial occlusion carry high morbidity and respond poorly [...]

Flow Chart

From Movin’ Meat: