American College of Emergency Physicians

ACCF 2012 Expert Consensus Document on Practical Clinical Considerations in the Interpretation of Troponin Elevations

*American College of Cardiology Foundation Representative; †Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Representative; ‡American Association for Clinical Chemistry Representative; §American College of Physicians Representative; American College of Emergency Physicians Representative; ¶American College of Chest Physicians Representative; #ACCF Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensu...

Transitions of Care Consensus policy statement: American College of Physicians, Society of General Internal Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine, American Geriatrics Society, American College Of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

The American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine, and Society of General Internal Medicine convened a multi-stakeholder consensus conference in July 2007 to address the quality gaps in the transitions between inpatient and outpatient settings and to develop consensus standards for these transitions. Over 30 organizations sent representatives to the Transitions of Care Consensus ...

Drug-assisted intubation in the prehospital setting position statement of the National Association of Emergency Physicians.

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)1 American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT)2, and the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) recognize that expert prehospital airway management by trained, non-physician, EMS providers is of paramount importance in the treatment of critically ill and injured patients. Endotracheal intubation (ETI) may be difficult or ...

Turf wars in radiology: emergency department ultrasound and radiography.

In recent years, emergency medicine physicians have made strenuous efforts to take over responsibility for interpreting and billing for ultrasound and conventional x-ray studies performed in emergency departments. This is a battle that radiologists have largely won. The authors explore some of the history of this controversy and the reasons why radiologists still control emergency department im...

Recent changes in management of acute myocardial infarction: implications for emergency care physicians.

Optimal older adult emergency care: introducing multidisciplinary geriatric emergency department guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments (EDs) and a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine (EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Geriatrics Soc...