Emergency Medicine News

What does Code Black mean? Most people think of codes in hospitals to mean someone is dying with shows like ER and Grey's Anatomy often having their doctors yell, "He's coding!" Which is not fictionalized medical jargon, but in this instance, Code Black refers to the volume of patients in a hospital waiting room.

The National Institute for Emergency Medicine on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Universal Foundation for Persons with Disabilities and TOT Plc to develop an emergency call system for the elderly and disabled.

The National Institute for Emergency Medicine on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Universal Foundation for Persons with Disabilities and TOT Plc to develop an emergency call system for the elderly and disabled.

When you are sick or injured the last thing you want to do when you get to an emergency room is wait for hours.

Measures taken to ease the pressure on overcrowded hospital emergency departments have been based on flawed data which wrongly blames general practice patients for clogging the system, according to a study by emergency specialists from The University of Western Australia.

Middle Tennessee Medical Center is set to join a partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to train physicians once they earn their medical doctor degrees.

Emergency physicians are important decision makers for roughly half of all hospital admissions, underscoring the key role they can play in reducing health care costs, according to a recent study by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit non governmental organization.

Management of chronic diseases such as hypertension has been identified as a major issue in earthquake-affected rural areas, according to a study published in the latest issue of Emergency Medicine Australasia , the journal of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Nearly half the nation's hospital beds are filled by the over 65s and hospital emergency departments are set to be overwhelmed as the population ages.

The Journal of emergency medicine , Vol. 39, No. 2. , pp. 166-173, doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.08.012 Prochlorperazine is the only treatment that has been studied so far in a randomized controlled trial and found to reduce pain at 1 h in children with migraine who presented to an emergency department .

Kennestone Hospital Emergency Room Physician, Dr. John Knox III, gets his blood pressure checked by his father, orthopedist Dr. John Knox Jr., on Friday, as the two share a moment with each other in the trauma center.

A device born out of a collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Rice University could save lives in Fiji where cardiovascular disease has been called a pandemic .

The College of Emergency Medicine claims A&E departments are now under such pressure that they have become 'like warzones'.

Rise in older people needing care has contributed to increase in hospital emergency visits to around 24 million a year The College of Emergency Medicine claims A&E departments are now under such pressure that they have become 'like warzones'.

A device born out of a collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Rice University could save lives in Fiji where cardiovascular disease has been called a pandemic.

Providence Memorial Hospital said its taking care of a case of mistaken identity after KFOX14 did a story on the problem weeks ago.

Ben Gurion University of the Negev graduated its first class of Jordanian and Israeli students who completed a special joint-emergency medicine BA program earlier this year.

Terry Lee Fortune, born November 11, 1960, passed away Monday, June 10, 2013 at Hospice of the Western Reserve at the age of 52. He was a graduate of Elyria High School and also a graduate of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine .

Ron Stewart's roots in Cape Breton have brought him home to lead MedLink, a joint initiative of Cape Breton University, Dalhousie University and the Cape Breton District Health Authority.

MDLIVE is a leading telehealth provider of online and on-demand healthcare delivery services and software, giving its users access to 24/7/365 online video or telephone consultations with board-certified internal medicine, emergency medicine, family practice and pediatric physicians.