Emergency Treatment

Delays in care after acute ischemic stroke correlated with loss of healthy life-years among patients treated with endovascular thrombectomy, especially in the post-arrival period, according to findings published in JAMA Neurology.

Similar to how emergency departments have teams ready to treat patients after cardiac arrest or stroke, a speaker argued it is equally necessary to have interventional teams for patients who develop rapid kidney failure.

A financial incentive that the Ontario government provides to eligible Canadian family physicians who work outside regular business hours was associated with a reduction in nonurgent ED visits, according to researchers.

The American College of Emergency Physicians announced that it is “disappointed and dismayed” by CMS’s final 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, which will lead to reduced reimbursement for emergency medicine services.

In a published paper, researchers argued that undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are presented with unique risks during the COVID-19 pandemic as they attempt to obtain necessary dialysis treatments.

The American Nephrology Nurses Association has recently launched an online tool that consists of an interactive map designed to ensure that the areas of greatest need have an adequate number of nephrology nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Older adults who were hospitalized unexpectedly for the first time faced a 5-fold increased risk for death compared with those who were not hospitalized, according to a study published in CMAJ.