Because of the EMTALA law, the emergency physician has to see and stabilize the patient.
Following instructions from an emergency physician on the phone, they began cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Dr. Arthur Kellermann, an emergency physician at Emory University Hospital, says there's no "Easy" button to cut through the shifting advice.
Saldana , an emergency physician in Dallas who has used ePocrates since it started up three years ago, mainly to check for drug interactions.
"Technological communication can interfere with the separate worlds that people are trying to maintain, " says Guldner, who spent four months as an emergency physician in Iraq.
Dr. Michael Sayre, an emergency physician at the Ohio State University and a spokesman for the AHA, says the odds of survival roughly double if a bystander steps in to provide CPR.
As a practicing emergency physician, I can attest to the fact that when I take care of patients with migraine headaches, alcohol withdrawal, and seizures, the standard medications are not always available.
This was a difficult fact of life for Don Kosiak, an emergency physician at Avera Health, a network of hospitals in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
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Emergency room physician Dr. Charles Deng was the first to see Kadish at the hospital.
The owner of the Colorado property, Eric Glanzer, 60, is an emergency room physician--no royal lineage here.
The hiker, an emergency room physician, checked for vital signs and found none.
"This isn't the ending we usually hear to these stories, so we're very happy, " said Dr. Gerald Maloney, an emergency room physician there.
The three women and a fourth person were being treated at Cleveland's Metro Health Medical Center on Monday, said Dr. Gerald Maloney, an emergency room physician there.
But Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine physician and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, urged caution in interpreting the study in an accompanying editorial published in the journal.
Dr. David Zich, internal medicine and emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said this is the worst flu season he's seen in his 12 years at his hospital, in terms of the concentration of patients.
Although his father was an emergency-room physician and his mother a registered nurse, neither could identify what was troubling their son.
The Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline in 2011 reprimanded an emergency-room physician who posted about her clinical experiences on Facebook.
But it is up for question whether rescheduling hydrocodone will deter doctors from prescribing, or make it very difficult for patients to obtain it, said Dr. Stephen Anderson, an emergency-room physician in Auburn, Washington.
Now, amid what he says is the most devastating hurricane of his lifetime, Crisco has been doing his job as the head emergency-room physician at the Ochsner Clinic, one of only three hospitals left functioning in the storm-damaged city.
Not surprising, it is government insured patients (Medicaid), who substitute the hospital emergency room for a regular physician.
Without the clinic, "he's definitely somebody we would have been called to see in the emergency room, " said physician assistant Jason Lightbody.
At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Stephen Epstein, attending physician in the emergency department, said X-rays of patients showed metal balls that appeared to be ball bearings.
Dr. Stephen Epstein, attending physician in the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said the hospital had received at least 21 patients from the explosions Monday, ranging from people complaining of ear damage to seven needing surgery for life-threatening injuries.
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The Lewin study also "found evidence of lower emergency room utilization and improved access to physician services" from "care management programs" for Medicaid patients with asthma, diabetes, heart problems and mental health disorders.
"It is an absolutely horrifying scene, " said Comilla Sasson, an attending physician who was working in the emergency room at the hospital.
He took her to the emergency room and from there to a primary care physician who told Maheshwari that his wife needed an MRI and a check-up from a neurologist.
If it's after hours, the on-call physician may suggest you go to the emergency room for an evaluation and removal, especially if you've tried to remove the contact several times or are experiencing eye pain or redness.
If you wound up in the emergency room far from home, unconscious, how would a physician find out if you were allergic to certain drugs, or had medical conditions they needed to know about?
By way of example, were someone to come into the emergency room for treatment of a nasty gunpowder burn, the attending physician would likely ask how the injury took place.
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