Items Tagged ‘Shawna Bellew’

February 14, 2017

Is too sick to go home also too sick for the floor?

By Elizabeth Zimmermann

What patients admitted from the Emergency Department to a general floor/ward will deteriorate? Author Shawna Bellew, MD (@SBellzMD) “That patient is going to trigger a rapid response team activation the minute they hit the floor.” Whether said by a nurse, a resident, or the accepting physician, most emergency medicine physicians have heard some version of […]

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Tags: emergency medicine, Shawna Bellew