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    Tag: Emergency medicine

    ‘Health policy failure’: Coroner says baby who was ineligible for Medicare fell through the cracks

    September 9, 2024

    A newborn who died from malnutrition complications was ineligible for a Medicare-funded domiciliary review through the hospital where she was born and fell through the…

    ED chaos, men in suits and car washes: Longstanding emergency doctor on where it’s all gone wrong

    September 3, 2024

    Dr Phillip Kay has spent decades trying to resolve the ever-growing “chaos and blockages” that have beset EDs and hospitals across Australia. He is now…

    $2.7 million urgent care clinic ‘paused’ six weeks after opening

    September 2, 2024

    This story has been updated with details from the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network about the clinic’s future. An urgent care…

    What’s happening to our acute care skills? The broken heart of general practice

    August 23, 2024

    Dr Ashraf Saleh is a Queensland GP — for now. He is leaving the specialty due to what he sees as its diminished scope, the…

    Cognitive bias, not racial bias, led to Indigenous patient’s misdiagnosis: coroner

    August 22, 2024

    Cognitive rather than racial bias led an emergency physician to misdiagnose a 36-year-old Indigenous man with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a coroner has found.  The doctor…

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    Naloxone may improve cardiac arrest survival even in non-overdose cases, study suggests

    August 22, 2024

    Overdose reversal agent naloxone can improve survival in drug-related cardiac arrests and possibly other cardiac arrests, a retrospective cohort study suggests. The study is the…

    How an off-duty ED doctor turned up at a stranger’s door to save a life

    August 20, 2024

    Dr Rhys Ross-Browne was just home after school drop-off, when an alert sounded on his smartphone that would send him scrambling back out the door…

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    Doctor says govt telling ‘porky pies’ over IV fluid shortage despite improving supply

    August 19, 2024

    An “embarrassing” shortage of IV fluids appears to be resolving, but at least one doctor is blaming bureaucratic bungling rather than international supply issues. State…

    ‘Doctors are at breaking point’: A day in Gaza’s last hospital

    August 12, 2024

    Relentless bombings and airstrikes by Israeli forces continue to kill hundreds of people across Gaza, while medical staff in hospitals are stretched to their limits…

    ‘Horrific’ yet ‘almost normalised’: Mental health patients in ED waiting hours for beds

    August 5, 2024

    “It is incredibly distressing to see patients who need admission to a specialist mental health bed waiting for over 24 hours in ED,” says Dr…

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