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Australian Anaphylaxis amplification
Anaphylaxis is increasingly common. The patient population death rate for anaphylaxis is Australia in 2013 was over double that reported in the UK Dr Ray Mullins, an allergist in Canberra, and colleagues from Sydney and Singapore have recently reported an increase in in the number of anaphylaxis fatalities in Australia. This is currently trending towards a 3 fold increase in anaphylaxis deaths over the study period of 15 years. Mullins and colleagues had previously identified a rise in the rate of all food allergy, with the most dramatic effect in young childhood food where hospital admission analyses showed a 50...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 18, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Clinical Research Education Immunology allergy Anaphylaxis EpiPen mastocytosis Ray Mullins Source Type: blogs

Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems: ED EHR Systems Pose Serious Concerns, Report Says
A report "Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems"appeared in the Oct. 2013 issue of "Annals of Emergency Medicine."  It is available fulltext at http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2813%2900506-4/fulltext, or in PDF via the tab, free as of this writing.First, a preamble:  I once tried to alert a hospital where I'd trained decades before, Abington Memorial Hospital (http://www.amh.org/), of impediments to safe care I'd noted in their EHR's, predominantly their ED EHR.  They did not listen.  In fact, their response to my concerns was characterized by an appar...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT risk Abington Memorial Hospital postmarketing surveillance EDIS healthcare IT regulation healthcare IT safety Chris Jay Hoofnagle emergency department Source Type: blogs