Bridging the Gap: Efforts to Address Medicaid Coverage Gaps and Reentry Issues After Incarceration

Bridging the Gap: Efforts to Address Medicaid Coverage Gaps and Reentry Issues After Incarceration

Often the ED is the source of routine care after incarceration, and that is often secondary to issues with medicaid lapsing during incarceration and dropping a key linkage to care. Join Dr. Kate Gallen as she examines why this can happen as the first step to improving the system is knowing where it fails.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Tricks of the Trach

Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Tricks of the Trach

Successful airway management is one of the cornerstones of every emergency medicine physician’s toolkit, and tracheostomies can often fall under that category of “difficult” or “scary”. In this post, we aim to familiarize learners with the anatomy of the trach airway and basics of trach tubes as well as teach management and troubleshooting of various complications of tracheostomies.

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