Background: Backboards have been shown to cause pain in uninjured patients. This may alter physical exam findings, leading emergency department (ED) providers to suspect a spinal injury when none exists resulting in ...

Objective: St. Paul’s Early Discharge Rule was derived to determine which patients could be safely discharged from the emergency department after a 1-hour observation period following naloxone administration for opiate ...

For the majority of terminally ill patients, the preferred place of death is at home. Previous literature has demonstrated the feasibility of at-home terminal extubation performed by critical care and hospice physicians. ...