Latest Emergency department Stories

New facility offers expert staff, cutting-edge technology, and innovative treatment model. LANGHORNE, Pa., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Mary Medical Center has completed Phase 2 of its Emergency Department and Trauma Center expansion. To celebrate this event, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday, April 9, at 9 a.m., in the newly renovated Emergency Department. This event included speakers, reception, and tours. Due for a total project completion in August 2013, the...

Young basketball player's life saved in Yonkers City Park after suffering cardiac arrest. YONKERS, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 31st at 12:47 PM: Empress EMS along with Yonkers Police Department ESU was dispatched to a 911 call at Coyne Park in the City of Yonkers for a reportedly unconscious person. Approximately 4 minutes after dispatch, multiple Empress Paramedic Units began arriving on scene to find a 21 year old male that had gone into sudden cardiac arrest...

ELMHURST, Ill., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The only predictable thing about life is its unpredictably and, unfortunately, accidents and illnesses can happen to anyone at any time. In fact, nearly 20 percent of us will visit an emergency room this year, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. Thankfully, you don't have to travel far to experience amazing emergency care. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130404/CG87405) With patient satisfaction...

Seeing a doctor within a month of an emergency room visit for chest pain significantly reduced the risk of heart attack or death among high risk patients, according to research published the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Chest pain is the most common reason people go to the emergency room in developed countries and accounts for more than 5 million ER visits each year in the United States. The study is the first to demonstrate the importance of follow-up care for chest...

Prime Urgent Care's New Online Check-In Service Makes it Easier for Houston Residents to Receive Affordable Minor Emergency Care, Physicals, and Other Services HOUSTON, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prime Urgent Care, one of the leading urgent care facilities in the Houston area, has announced its new online check-in service to better meet the needs of its customers. The new online check-in service from Prime Urgent Care has been designed to promote the convenience as well...

TOTOWA, N.J., and SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- From the 2013 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Convention One of the leading complaints in the Emergency Department is chest pain and the timely detection of a heart attack is essential. Because of this, VectraCor, Inc., an emerging medical device company for cardiovascular solutions, is pleased to announce that The Johns Hopkins Hospital presented an abstract at the ACC conference in San Francisco that utilized...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a report released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data for St. Bernardine Medical Center and Community Hospital of San Bernardino states impressive short wait times for service in their Emergency Departments (ED). The two Dignity Health hospitals are among over 4,000 nationwide that voluntarily provided wait time data to the CMS for quality measures of ED care from January 1-March 31,...

Larry Cerny, an extremely active and inspirational Wisconsin business owner, is now a cardiac arrest survivor, thanks to medical staff trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Henderson, NV (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 The connection between Americans and cardiac arrest has sadly become very common in recent decades. Today, it would be truly difficult to find an individual who has not been affected by cardiac arrest in some capacity- be it through personal experience, experience of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OhioHealth is expanding its life-saving stroke care across the region through the OhioHealth Stroke Network with the support of the Verizon Foundation. The OhioHealth Stroke Network is the first partnership for stroke treatment and research of its kind in Ohio and employs advanced telemedicine technology to help patients across the region receive the most advanced stroke care and appropriate intervention. Emergency teams at partner...

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The small number of emergency patients who are ultimately discharged with "primary care treatable" diagnoses come to the ER with the same symptoms as other patients who need immediate or emergency care, hospital admission or surgery, according to a study to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has actively opposed the growing practice...