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 Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims, families and first responders affected by the Las Vegas concert attack.
Click here to read a press release from ACEP on the Las Vegas mass shooting incident that occurred on Oct. 1.
 FCEP Board member Dr. Danyelle Redden presented “Human Trafficking & Health Care Providers” at the 2017 Florida Human Trafficking Summit at the Rosen Center Hotel in Orlando, Florida on Oct. 2.
For more information on human trafficking in Florida, click here to visit the Florida Department of Children and Families to access useful resources.
 Emergency Medicine Days in Tallahassee is the premier advocacy event each year for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians. All members are invited each spring to our state capital to spend time face-to-face with their legislators, lobbying for legislation that will provide better access to quality care for our patients. At EM Days, FCEP members gather with their colleagues and lobby for a better emergency medicine climate in Florida.
Click here to register today!
Pain is the most common reason for seeking health care and, as a presenting complaint, accounts for up to 78% of ED visits. As part of PAMI’s Pain Discharge Planning Toolkit, we have developed free access educational pain videos. These short patient-focused videos describe various ways pain can be managed at home. Videos easily download to phones, iPads, or tablets using the QR codes displayed on the poster. Patients can watch videos while in the ED or later at home. Posters can be adapted to your facility or hospital needs.
Please visit our website to learn more
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UPCOMING FCEP & EMLRC EVENTS
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| DATE |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
| NOV. 9-10 |
APP Skills Camp — Fall 2017 — SOLD OUT |
EMLRC — Orlando
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| JAN. 16-18, 2018 |
Emergency Medicine Days 2018
— Click here to register |
Tallahassee |
| FEB. 22-23, 2018 |
EM Payment Reform Summit 2018
— More details coming soon |
Orlando
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| JULY 10-14, 2018 |
CLINCON 2018
— More details coming soon |
Orlando |
| AUG 2-5, 2018 |
Symposium by the Sea 2018
— More details coming soon |
Ft. Myers |
To see the full calendar, click here.
Orlando Sentinel
Florida hospitals are battling a pair of proposed transparency rules requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to provide information to patients about potential treatment costs.
A statewide group that represents most hospitals filed an administrative challenge last week that maintains the rules go beyond what is authorized by law.
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MedPage Today
The mass shooting Sunday in Las Vegas induced something like flashbacks for physicians elsewhere who treated victims of previous multiple-shooting tragedies, and for others it reinforced the necessity for drills and planning to cope with such events.
From a 32nd-floor room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, a man identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire onto people attending an outdoor music festival, killing 50 and sending more than 400 to area hospitals with gunshot wounds and injuries from the resulting stampede, media reports indicated.
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Medical Xpress
A simple tool using readily available data can accurately estimate the 30-day mortality risk for patients admitted to the emergency department with acute heart failure. Emergency department physicians may consider using this tool to inform clinical decisions. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Acute heart failure accounts for more than 1 million hospitalizations in the United States and Europe, and about 90 percent of patients visit the emergency department for their symptoms.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
New U.S. hospital overdose data suggests that drug addicts are turning from prescription opioid painkillers to heroin as an easier way to get high, researchers report.
Hospital and emergency room treatment rates for prescription opioid overdoses (such as OxyContin) decreased annually by about 5 percent between 2010 and 2014. This was about the same time tough new prescribing laws were drafted to combat the opioid epidemic, the study authors said.
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Healio
Patients in the ED were more likely to be prescribed opioids in accordance with current CDC guidelines and less likely to progress to long-term use than those prescribed opioids in other clinical settings, according to findings published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
“Because of a four-fold increase in opioid prescriptions since 1999, long-term opioid use has become major public health issues in the United States,” Molly M. Jeffery, PhD, from the division of emergency medicine research at Mayo Clinic, and colleagues wrote.
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Emergency Medicine News
Sometimes it can seem as if the emergency department is the neurology waiting room. Many new technologies are being applied to neurologic disorders, but they may result in complications and an ED visit for the patient. Deep brain stimulation is one of them.
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