Emergency Medicine News

• Dietary Zinc Linked to Reduced Migraine Risk Individuals with higher dietary zinc intake have a nearly one-third lower risk for developing migraine than those who get little zinc in their diets, new research suggests.
  MDedge News, January 17, 2023
• Brain Differences Suggest Therapeutic Targets in Takotsubo A new study has identified differences in the brain between patients with Takotsubo syndrome, a cardiomyopathy triggered by intense emotional stress, and controls.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Simulation-Based Training Effective for Transesophageal Echo Cardiology fellows who learned transesophageal echocardiography using simulations scored higher on both theoretical and practical tests than those who received traditional training in a randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Possible Bivalent Vaccine Link to Strokes in People Over 65 The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), "a near real-time surveillance system," raised a safety concern about the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• Atrial Failure or Insufficiency: A New Syndrome The syndrome may explain heart failure in patients with preserved pump function, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2023
• Singer Is Paralyzed After Delay in Care; Hospital Must Pay A Texas hospital must pay a multimillion-dollar judgment for not treating woman's spinal injury in time; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules in regard to the state's 2-year statute of limitations.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 13, 2023
• What FTC Proposed Ban on Noncompetes Could Mean for Docs Restrictive noncompete agreements are already banned in some states but are often included in physician work contracts, so this broad move by the Federal Trade Commission could set a national standard.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2023
• The Decision of Where to Seek Emergency Care Is Complicated The proliferation of care options — particularly urgent care centers and free-standing emergency departments — can make the head spin. For patients, the wrong choice may mean big bills and poor health outcomes.
  Kaiser Health News, January 12, 2023
• Pandemic May Be Limiting ED Access for Sexual Assault Emergency department visits for sexual assault decreased after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and fluctuated thereafter, an analysis of data from Ontario suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• Remote Mountain Bike Crash Forces a Doctor to Take Knife in Hand In the middle of nowhere, with a crash victim's oxygen levels and heart rate dropping, a doctor must do something he's never done before to keep the man alive.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• Arkansas Cardiologist Pays $900K to Settle False Claims Allegations The government alleged that Jeffrey Tauth, MD, sought payment from Medicare for unnecessary placement of cardiac stents in violation of the False Claims Act. Tauth maintains he did not.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• What to Do When Patients Don't Listen You do all you can for your patients, so when they're nonadherent, it can be frustrating. What can you do when patients don't listen?
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• Chronic Pain Patients Swapping Opioids for Medical Cannabis About 3 in 10 patients with chronic pain are using medical marijuana to help manage conditions like low back pain and migraine.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• Nurses Strike for 2nd Day at Two Big NYC Hospitals
  Associated Press, January 10, 2023
• Two Short-Term Exposure Therapies Linked to PTSD Reductions A head-to-head comparison of two forms of abbreviated exposure therapy in US military personnel resulted in substantial relief from PTSD symptoms that lasted well after the study's end.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• Nurses Go on Strike at Two Big New York City Hospitals The privately owned, nonprofit hospitals were postponing nonemergency surgeries, diverting ambulances to other medical centers, and pulling in temporary staffers.
  Associated Press, January 09, 2023
• Thrombolysis Safe for Stroke Patients on DOACs? The largest study to date to look at this issue has actually found a lower rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage in patients on DOACs receiving thrombolysis than those not taking anticoagulants.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2023
• Lecanemab Linked to Death in AD Patient With Stroke Given tPA A case report links the investigational Alzheimer's drug to numerous severe intracerebral hemorrhages during thrombolysis treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2023
• Acute Care in the Home Gets Waiver Extension Research on hospital at home model for delivering acute care outside the hospital has shown favorable outcomes — but transformational growth hasn't yet followed.
  Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2023
• Even With Insurance, EDs Can Cost a Bundle Even for people with private insurance who are employed by large companies, the average out-of-pocket cost of an ED visit can exceed their savings.
  WebMD Health News, January 04, 2023