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Emergency medicine and other leading medical associations, academics and psychiatry experts issue a joint statement that outlines steps to support the mental health of emergency physicians and other health professionals currently risking their lives to treat patients during this pandemic.
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FCEP's weekly COVID-19, open to all members, provides an opportunity for FCEP members to hear from state leaders and stakeholders regarding the current coronavirus pandemic. Calls take place biweekly, on Thursdays at 9:30am. The meetings will end with an open forum for discussion and Q&A. If you have questions that need answers, please send them through FCEP EngagED — we will address them on these weekly calls.
Next call: June 4, 2020 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. via Zoom
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About: This presentation will highlight the growing use of these potentially dangerous substances in adolescents and young people with a focus on the signs and symptoms that all emergency providers should recognize in these patients. Emergency providers should understand the wide breadth of complications and how to best approach these patients given the often-psychological nature of the use of these drugs.
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About: This presentation is designed to review the three main reasons that EMS providers document medical activities: clinical, reimbursement, and legal. The program will also review some foundational issues surrounding EMS documentation, including culture, patient identification, and decision-making capacity. This lecture is taught by a practicing EMS provider who is also a practicing EMS attorney.
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Florida PEDReady produces an enewsletter called the PEARL for EMS agencies, emergency departments and any other healthcare providers. Can you spare 10 minutes a week to brush up on pediatric education? Subscribe Now!
| Florida COVID-19 Numbers as of Tuesday
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By The News Service of Florida & Florida Department of Health
COVID-19 in Florida as of yesterday at noon:
- 57,447: Total number of cases (increase of 517 cases since Monday)
- 18,032: Cases in Miami-Dade, the largest in the state
- 2,530: Deaths of Florida residents
- 1,284: Deaths of residents or staff members of long-term care facilities (as of Monday)
- 50.8% of deaths involving residents or staff members of long-term care facilities
- 10,412 Hospitalizations
The Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI) works towards the advancement of multimodal, safe pain management in healthcare systems to improve outcomes and reduce opioid risk. Multimodal management includes a variety of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions to address opioid stewardship, discharge planning, and safe pain management. PAMI 3.0 includes a focus on older adults and other high-risk populations such as pediatrics, prehospital (EMS), and trauma patients. For information and access to free resources, click here.
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UPCOMING FCEP & EMLRC EVENTS
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| JULY 8-11, 2020 |
CLINCON 2020 | Learn More |
Orlando |
| AUG. 6-9, 2020 |
Symposium by the Sea 2020 | Learn More |
Clearwater Beach |
To see the full calendar, click here.
Frontiers via EurekAlert
Due to the devastating worldwide impact of COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there has been unprecedented efforts by clinicians and researchers from around the world to quickly develop safe and effective treatments and vaccines. Given that COVID-19 is a complex new disease with no existing vaccine or specific treatment, much effort is being made to investigate the repurposing of approved and available drugs, as well as those under development. In Frontiers in Immunology, a team of researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration review all of the COVID-19 clinical and research findings to date. They provide a breakdown of key immunological factors underlying the clinical stages of COVID-19 illness that could potentially be targeted by existing therapeutic drugs.
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Commercial Appeal (opinion)
Kevin Beier writes, "Doctors have been fighting on the frontlines against a deadly virus. Every day, they know they are putting their own health at risk. They isolate themselves from their families to protect their loved ones. Many have been quarantined. Some have even made the ultimate sacrifice, tragically losing their lives to COVID-19 as a result of caring for patients. And while all this is going on, they have also had to confront a financial crisis that threatens their ability to do their own jobs as well as the long-term viability of our entire healthcare system."
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Medical Xpress
Two Yale emergency physicians have designed a tool to help clinicians better identify COVID-19 patients whose condition is likely to worsen rapidly and who will need intensive care within 24 hours. The tool, which uses predictive modeling, is called the COVID-19 severity index and is available online. To use it, emergency room doctors input just three patient parameters: rate of breathing, oxygen level, and the amount of oxygen required from a nasal cannula, a device used to deliver supplemental oxygen.
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Reuters via U.S. News & World Report
World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high-profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency. Professor Alberto Zangrillo, head of intensive care at Italy's San Raffaele Hospital in Lombardy, which bore the brunt of Italy's epidemic, on Sunday told state television that the new coronavirus "clinically no longer exists". But WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove and several other experts on viruses and infectious diseases, said Zangrillo's comments were not supported by scientific evidence.
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Chicago Tribune
One patient ran out of medication during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended up in the Loyola University Medical Center emergency room with dangerously high blood pressure. Others, unwilling or unable to get consistent treatment for chronic conditions during the pandemic, have come in with out-of-control asthma, mental health crises or inadequately treated chronic kidney failure. And then there are the patients who have been putting off treatment for chest pain.
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KUOW-FM
The numbers mark a staggering increase from six weeks ago, when the CDC first released data on coronavirus infections and deaths among nurses, doctors, pharmacists, EMTs, technicians and other medical employees. On April 15, the agency reported 27 deaths, and more than 9,000 cases of infection in healthcare workers. The latest tally doesn't provide a full picture of illness in this essential workforce, because only 21% of the case reports sent to the CDC included information that could help identify the patient as a healthcare worker. Among known healthcare workers, there was also missing information about how many of those people actually died. Still, the growing number of healthcare workers infected by the coronavirus provides sobering evidence that many are still working in high-risk settings without reliable or adequate protection against the virus.
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Harvard Business Review
When people feel vulnerable, they focus on what matters most. That's why in the hours after JFK was shot or the terrorism attacks of 9/11, people huddled in their homes with their families. And that's why, as the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, people have been rediscovering that the essence of healthcare is not miracle drugs, but the humanity and commitment of caregivers. The impact of this new awareness could persist far beyond the end of the pandemic if providers seize the moment.
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Emergency Medicine News
Many of the diagnostic tools that we typically rely on are not practical or possible due to the risk of contamination and the high volume of patients. As is the case for many diseases, the chest X-ray often lags behind the symptoms. Many physicians in places hit hard by the virus have been using ultrasound to guide patient care and document their findings.
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HealthDay News
More evidence has surfaced that the COVID-19 coronavirus was circulating in the United States as much as a month prior to the first confirmed local case in February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Genetic analysis of early cases suggests a single line of coronavirus imported from China began circulating in the United States between Jan. 18 and Feb. 9, followed by several importations from Europe, according to research from the CDC's COVID-19 Response Team. That means the new coronavirus entered the United States weeks before the first documented case of COVID-19 infection from unknown origins — a California resident who fell ill on Feb. 13 and was confirmed on Feb. 26, the researchers reported.
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