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ACEP4U: UAB Achieves First-Ever Emergency Department Accreditation from ACEP 

ACEP Now

But only one has received ACEPs Emergency Department Accreditation Program (EDAP) stamp of approval. Dr. McDonald, along with a team of ED clinicians and support staff, were required to show that UAB met certain criteria and provided data to reinforce the claim. An upcoming expansion will add 30 beds to the UAB ED.

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ACEP Clinical Policy on Outpatient Mgmt. of Adults with Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure

ACEP Now

On January 22, 2025, the ACEP Board of Directors approved a clinical policy developed by the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee on the outpatient management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with asymptomatic elevated blood pressure. Responses received were used to refine and enhance the final policy.

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SGEM#370: Listen to your Heart (Score)…MACE Incidence in Non-Low Risk Patients with known Coronary Artery Disease

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Case: You are working a shift in your local community emergency department (ED) when a 47-year-old male presents with chest pain.

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Episode 107: Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Chest Pain with Dr. Mike Berkenbush

The Overrun Podcast

The conversation highlights the need for a broader approach to chest pain, beyond just focusing on heart attacks. Takeaways EMS education should focus on a broader approach to chest pain, beyond just heart attacks. Mike Berkenbush joins the podcast to discuss the challenges in EMS education on differentiating chest pain.

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Young ACEP Member Is Passionate About Breaking Down Barriers to Care

ACEP Now

His family had insurance for just two years when his father had a heart attack and needed open heart surgery. For example, he knows follow-up care is critical for many ED patients, but it can be challenging to find transportation to in-person care. Inspired, he carried that problem-solver energy into medical school.

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New Study Provides a Global Pulse Check on Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

And yet, despite this seemingly higher concentration, we still grapple with staffing challenges in our emergency departments, particularly in the often-forgotten outposts of rural America (a crisis weve dissected in previous reports). Now, hold onto your hats: in the United States, that figure skyrockets to 19 per 100,000!

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CT Emergency Rooms Backed up as Delays Threaten Patient Care. ‘It’s Getting Worse.’

JEMS

Moore highlighted Connecticut’s growing problem with “boarding,” when patients who are admitted after initial care in an emergency room have to wait for beds elsewhere in the hospital for longer than four hours. UCSF Study Challenges ER Overcrowding Theory What’s Happened to the ‘Emergency’ in Emergency Medicine?