Articles: emergency-services.
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This article summarizes current law pertaining to medical malpractice litigation, focusing on the special medical/legal problems encountered by the emergency physician and defining the applicable legal standard of care. The discussion includes the issues of informed consent, documentation of emergency room treatment, advice and instruction to patients, legal abandonment, and the implications of the failure of an attending physician to authorize admission of an emergency department patient contrary to the advice of the emergency physician. The requirements for countersuits against lawyers and patients for the initiation of frivolous or malicious lawsuits is summarized.
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Aug 1985
ReviewEvaluation of the chest radiograph in the emergency department patient.
This article discusses the differential diagnosis of abnormal radiographic patterns most commonly seen in emergency department patients with chest disease. Conditions associated with trauma are also described.
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Many asthmatics in the Auckland area use hospital accident and emergency (A & E) departments as the primary source of treatment during acute asthmatic attacks. A review of A & E records has revealed important variations in the standard of care they receive, and highlights the need for further education of A & E officers.