Description
In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Michael B. Weinstock and Gita Pensa bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Risk Management in Emergency Medicine. Top experts discuss documentation; legal risk to the resident in training; balancing the legal risk to the clinician and the medical health of the patient; pediatric high-risk conditions; medical malpractice stress syndrome; and more.- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including specific legal risks of chest pain, headache, abdominal pain, and neurologic; collaboration of physicians and PAs and NPs; lessons from a medical malpractice defense attorney; and more.- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on risk management in emergency medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Table of Contents
Medical Malpractice Stress SyndromeBalancing the Legal Risk to the Clinician with the Medical Interests of the PatientMedical Malpractice Epidemiology: Adults and PediatricsMedicolegally Protective Documentation in Emergency MedicinePediatric High-Risk ConditionsChest Pain-Specific Legal RiskMisdiagnosis of Acute Headache: Mitigating Medico-legal RisksNeurologic Specific Risk: Strokes, Lytics, and LitigationAbdominal Pain-Specific Legal RiskLegal Risk to the Emergency Medicine Resident in Training and Attending SupervisorsNavigating Supervision of Advanced Practice ProvidersUnderstanding Against Medical Advice, Informed Consent, and Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor ActClinical Practice Guidelines and Medical Malpractice RiskReflections from a Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney: Insights on Avoiding Claims and Lawsuits
