Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Prescriptions for controlled substances decrease when regulatory barriers are put in place. The converse has not been studied. ⋯ Patients were more likely to receive a prescription for a Schedule II opioid or a benzodiazepine after a more streamlined computer-generated prescription writing process was introduced in this ED.
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The objective was to determine the value of ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) in the diagnosis of mesenteric embolism. The authors investigated whether or not plasma IMA levels rose in the acute period in a rat model of mesenteric ischemia and the related time-dependent changes. ⋯ These preliminary findings suggest that serum IMA levels may represent a significant parameter in the early diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia and that further studies are necessary.
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Historical Article
Get out of my emergency room: thirty years spent inside The house of God.