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Sudden cardiac death, run the numbers; prevention=savings
What does Sudden cardiac death that is the leading cause of death in the US and sudden death of high school atheletes have in common ? Not a G. D. thing. incidence of sudden cardiac death in Young atheletes: 1/100,000 http://www.hughston.com/hha/a_16_4_4.htm (I've seen lower numbers elsewhere). Those bonked by EKG-->1/300 (I've seen ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by drugdoc on February 3, 2009
ER reform ideas
Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008