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The Florida College of Emergency Physicians is happy to announce that our 2016 Written Board Review Course will take place August 21-25, 2016 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Mark your calendars, and stay tuned to www.emlrc.org for more details to come!
We have just released the schedule for the upcoming Florida College of Emergency Physicians/Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation Board and committee meetings.
Click here to view all times and locations of the upcoming meetings in November.
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FEP seeks board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physicians to staff Florida Hospital's new pediatric emergency departments. Job offers a competitive compensation package, excellent benefits and relocation assistance. MORE
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 The Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center is now accepting applications for presenters for its 42nd Annual Clinical Conference. The 2016 ClinCon Program Committee is seeking dynamic, challenging clinical content geared toward the EMS and emergency medicine community. Some topic suggestions from the 2016 ClinCon Program Committee include: trauma, C-Spine clearance pediatrics, new technologies in EMS, restraints in EMS, EMS management, medical emergencies, environmental and wilderness medicine, and EMS best practices among many others.
Click here for more information on requirements for 2016 ClinCon presenters and to find the presenter application. Applications are due by December 18, 2015.
 January 18–20, 2016
Hotel Duval, Tallahassee, FL
Emergency Medicine Days is the premier advocacy event for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians. It takes place during regular legislative session, and is a valuable opportunity for Florida’s emergency physicians to get to know their state legislators and discuss the key issues currently affecting emergency medicine. It is also a wonderful opportunity to earn continuing medical education (CME) credit.
For more info on the event, click here to visit the event page!
To register for EM Days 2016, click here!
To book your hotel room online using our group rate, click here. If you'd like to book your room over the phone, please call 866.957.4001 and reference reservation code "EM Days 2016". The hotel reservation deadline is December 17, 2015.
The Clinical Policies Committee of ACEP has completed the clinical guideline draft for “Clinical Policy for Children Younger Than Two Years Presenting to the Emergency Department With Fever.”
The draft is now open for comments until November 29, 2015.
To view the draft policy and comment form, go to: http://www.acep.org/clinical-policy-comment-children-fever/
For questions, please contact ACEP Clinical Practice Manager Rhonda Whitson, RHIA, at rwhitson@acep.org
Part of FCEP’s mission is to advance emergency medicine and improve access to emergency care through advocacy. Help to further this cause by supporting these Political Action Committees (click on the link below to donate):
Physicians for Emergency Care (PEC) and Emergency Care for Florida
Save the dates and mark your calendar with all of FCEP's upcoming events!
Click here to see the 2015-2016 FCEP Annual Calendar.
| | EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN THE NEWS — AROUND FLORIDA |
The Suncoast News
Florida still has nearly 2.8 million people who lack health insurance, according to a new report, and 80 percent of them are uninsured for reasons that have nothing to do with Medicaid politics.
Many qualify for subsidized plans under the Affordable Care Act but haven’t signed up, says the report released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Others have enough income to buy it on their own or through their employer but don’t.
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Health News Florida
Healthcare providers around Florida are continuing a push for laws that would expand the roles of nurse practitioners and physicians assistants.
Florida policy leaders, educators and healthcare providers gathered for a symposium hosted by Gunster law firm at the University of South Florida's Center of Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in Tampa to discuss expanding access to healthcare.
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Jacksonville Business Journal
Under orders from an administrative law judge, the Department of Health on Friday held a hearing on a controversial new method of determining eligibility for Children's Medical Services — and offered a compromise that could allow the department to resume enrolling special-needs kids.
"We're looking for common ground," DOH Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Tschetter said.
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| | EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN THE NEWS — NATIONAL |
Pensacoila News Journal
Stephanie Duggan, M.D., loves to work in emergency medicine. Even though she is the chief medical officer at Sacred Heart Hospital, she still works one shift a week in the emergency room.
She loves not knowing what will be coming through the door. She also enjoys reassuring someone with chest pains, for example, that he or she is not suffering a heart attack.
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NBC News
Weight-loss, bodybuilding and energy supplements send thousands of teens and young adults to emergency rooms each year — more than prescription stimulants, government researchers reported.
They calculate that 23,000 people have to go to the ER every year after something goes wrong with a supplement or vitamin pill.
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The Wall Street Journal
Fainting can be a frightening and dangerous experience, sending as many as four million people to the emergency room each year.
Now, with an aging population that is more vulnerable to such episodes, often on a recurrent basis, hospitals are trying to do a better job of identifying the causes of fainting, known in medical terms as syncope, and determining which cases are serious enough to warrant follow-up and hospitalization.
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mHealth Intelligence
Remote home monitoring and telemedicine services can make a big impact on coordinated care by better tracking the ongoing health conditions, symptoms, and vital signs of each patient. If any minor issues are found, they can be tackled much more quickly than if a symptom was allowed to escalate before the patient went to see the doctor.
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HealthDay News
With flu season underway, many people will choose to be vaccinated, in the hopes of warding off a debilitating bout of fever, sneezes, coughs and aches. But a new British study suggests they may end up getting a bonus protection they hadn't even considered: a drop in their short-term risk for stroke. According to a team of scientists from the University of Lincoln, the flu shot seems associated with a reduced risk for stroke by about one-fifth over two months. However, the study did not prove that the flu vaccine causes a drop in stroke risk.
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By Katina Smallwood
Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey was one of the 28,000 people infected with Ebola in last year's outbreak of the virus that killed more than 11,000 people. The nurse contracted Ebola while volunteering at a hospital in Sierra Leone last December and was declared Ebola-free after weeks of treatment in London. But now Cafferkey has been admitted to a hospital in Scotland where she is "critically ill," raising many questions about the lingering effects of the virus.
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EurekAlert!
Researchers from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, formed a multidisciplinary sepsis and shock response team (SSRT) to help alert emergency department providers when these disorders are suspected. An automated electronic sepsis alarm for early recognition, followed by standardized multidisciplinary management of patients with suspected sepsis or shock with SSRT, improved the compliance with standard care measures and overall mortality.
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Medscape (free login required)
Injured patients were evaluated and received medical imaging tests 30 percent faster after an innovative performance improvement project was enacted at one hospital.
"Being able to quickly identify patients' injuries can really increase our ability to treat them more effectively," lead investigator Andrea Long, M.D., an acute care surgery fellow at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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