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Community Paramedics Work To Link Patients With Mental Health Care

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Training these first responders to identify people who are suffering from mental illness and connect them with treatment other than the emergency room could be part of the solution to gaps in the nation’s mental health system.

Niños pequeños terminan en emergencias médicas por consumo de opioides y analgésicos

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Un nuevo estudio destaca a un grupo de pacientes soprendente, que sufre de intoxicación por opioides en tasas que también han marcado un aumento dramático: adolescentes, niños e incluso niños pequeños.

Will A Study Save Victims Of Violence Or Gamble With Their Lives?

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A major study in Philadelphia will look at whether it is better for people with gunshot or stab wounds to get basic care from paramedics or more advanced care before going to the hospital, as most do now.

Scarcity Of Mental Health Care Means Patients — Especially Kids — Land In ER

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Research released by the American College of Emergency Physicians highlights how gaps in mental health care play out in the emergency room with longer stays and difficulties in securing follow-up care.

Better Training, Tourniquets And Techniques Since 9/11 Are Saving Lives

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U.S. trauma care experts are increasingly focusing on ways to help civilian victims of violence — whether the incidents were mass shootings or bad car accidents — avoid bleeding to death at the scene.