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ACEP Qual-ED: Exploring quality in emergency care. Dr. Arjun Venkatesh, emergency physician, QI leader, and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Yale, will be your host. Each weekly episode will feature different experts in emergency medicine to discuss new innovations in high-quality care in the Emergency Department. Select episodes will have CME.
Host name: Arjun Venkatesh MD, MBA, MHS
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New guidelines and innovations in ICH care
On today's episode, we chat with Dr. Josh Goldstein, Director of Neurological Emergencies at Massachusetts General Hospital, about all things intracranial hemorrhage. We discuss the findings from the INTERACT 3 trial, bundles of care and how ICH can be better approached in the ED.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(23)00806-1/fulltext
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
Do you have feedback on today's episode or want to reach out to the team? Email us at equal@acep.org -
Providing stroke care in low-resourced settings
On today's episode, we chat with Dr. Nnenna Ejesieme, an Emergency Physician at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, TX about caring for stroke patients in low-resourced settings. We discuss what it is like being a part of the stroke care team at rural hospitals and how to work through staffing and resource limitations while maintaining quality.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9307290/
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
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Case Studies: Opioid Use Disorder and Pain Management in the ED
On today's episode, we welcome Dr. Alexis LaPietra, who is the System Director of Addiction Medicine at RWJ Barnabus Health in New York City and an emergency physician. Listen in as Dr. LaPietra works her way through a gauntlet of tough pain management cases for OUD patients.
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
Do you have feedback on today's episode, want an E-QUAL demo or just want to reach out to the team? Email us at equal@acep.org -
Prehospital Stroke Care
On today's episode, we welcome Dr. Adam Oostema, Emergency Physician, stroke researcher and lead EMS consultant for the state of Michigan's pre-hospital stroke program. We will discuss the quality of pre-hospital stroke care and how we can connect that care with the work being done in the ED in order to drive better outcomes for stroke patients.
Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377918498_Abstract_WP93_Providing_Stroke_Reports_to_Emergency_Medical_Services_EMS_Agencies_Improves_Data_Quality_in_Michigan's_Statewide_EMS_Data_Repository?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InByb2ZpbGUiLCJwYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377054643_Emergency_Medical_Services_Compliance_With_Prehospital_Stroke_Quality_Metrics_Is_Associated_With_Faster_Stroke_Evaluation_and_Treatment?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InByb2ZpbGUiLCJwYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
Do you have feedback on today's episode, want an E-QUAL demo or just want to reach out to the team? Email us at equal@acep.org -
Dawn of a New Model: Converging Social Determinants of Health and Time Horizons in the ED
"On today's episode, we welcome Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, who is Chief Health Officer of Elevance Health and an emergency physician. Listen in as Dr. Agrawal helps us answer tough questions like: what is the role of insurance companies in addressing SUD care and social determinants of health in the ED? How do you build a time horizon for substance use disorder or food insecurity patients when you're in a business that operates on an annual basis? Will prior authorization be the key to reducing inappropriate healthcare utilization? Will Elevance Health triple the reimbursement of all Emergency physicians??
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
Do you have feedback on today's episode, want an E-QUAL demo, or just want to reach out to the team? Email us at equal@acep.org" -
The Dizzy Patient in the ED
On today's episode, we welcome Dr. Chris Carpenter, Emergency Physician, Vice Chair of Implementation and Innovation at The Mayo Clinic, and lead author on the SAEM GRACE-3 guidelines, and Dr. Bruce Lo, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and lead author on the ACEP Clinical Policy on Acute Ischemic Stroke. We will discuss the current recommendations from both SAEM and ACEP on approaching a dizzy patient in the ED and we will also breakdown some difficult cases.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.acep.org/patient-care/clinical-policies/acute-ischemic-stroke
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acem.14728
Learn more about E-QUAL and register here: https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/
Do you have feedback on today's episode, want an E-QUAL demo or just want to reach out to the team? Email us at equal@acep.org"