Home for the Holidays: Why ER Visits Spike Around Christmas
Experts discuss this phenomenon and share tips on how to safely make it through the holidays.
Exhaustion on the Covid Front Lines
Healthcare workers in ER’s and ICU’s are in their 11th month of fighting Covid-19 and its exhaustion and depression. Two front line doctors describe how they’re managing to stay optimistic amid so much chaos, and how the vaccine has given them a goal keeping them afloat.
Christmas in the E.R.: It’s No Holiday
Winter in general, and the holidays in particular, are the busiest time of year in hospital emergency departments, even in places where it doesn’t snow. Experts discuss the increase in deaths of all kinds, including the “Merry Christmas Coronary” and possible reasons those deaths bounce up.
Violence Against Healthcare Workers
Experts discuss how and why attacks on healthcare workers occur and how hospitals and health care workers can do a better job preventing them.
Drowning on Land
When a child is pulled out of the water and revived they may face life-threatening peril hours or days later as the body reacts.
It’s No Holiday in the ER
The holidays are like no other time in your local hospital's emergency department. Having family in from out of town results in pickup football injuries, carving knife gashes, and maladies that should have been addressed long ago. Heart attacks additionally create a spike in dead-on-arrival cases greater than any other days of the year. Experts discuss why …
