Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Emergency Medicine)
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2024
January
25,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new, 14-bed unit in Cedars-Sinai’s Department of Emergency Medicine has been established in honor of longtime supporters Walter and Shirley Wang. The Wangs’ generous $3 million gift created the Walter and Shirley Wang Treatment Area East, where …
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2023
November
07,
2023
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07:03 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has embarked on a three-year Emergency Department expansion project that will enhance access and efficiency as well as enable more specialty healthcare. When the project is complete, it will add 16,550 square feet to …
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August
09,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Climate change has supersized summer heat this year, with Southern California expected to again reach more than 100 degrees mid-month. Along with the rise in outdoor temperatures, physicians are seeing an increase in heat-related illnesses …
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2022
November
28,
2022
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Sam Torbati, MD, co-chair and medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Emergency Department, has been named the Levin/Gordon Chair in Emergency Medicine in Honor of Joel M. Geiderman, MD.The endowed chair honor recognizes excellence in …
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November
23,
2022
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06:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Trauma Program has again received designation as a Level I Trauma Center―the highest level―from the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma. The Level I designation, evaluated every three years, recognizes …
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February
07,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
People in love often say two hearts beat as one, and the hearts of Tom and Therese Mazzei are definitely in sync. When 59-year-old Tom Mazzei traveled from Guam to the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai for treatment, Therese Mazzei, his wife of …
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2021
February
16,
2021
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06:02 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Like every nurse at the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, Hannah Jaruszewski, RN, is skilled at treating patients–from starting an IV and assisting during an emergency procedure to sending patients home with clear …
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2020
October
12,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study shows that the vast majority of patients who visited the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai with suspected COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) symptoms, and who were treated and sent home to recuperate, …
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April
08,
2020
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07:40 AM
America/Los_Angeles
What is it like being an emergency medicine specialist on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Cedars-Sinai Newsroom reached out to some of our healthcare heroes to find out.
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January
21,
2020
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06:29 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Early estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that since Oct. 1, 2019, when the federal agency began counting, as many as 8.5 million flu-related medical visits and up to 210,000 hospitalizations have been …
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2019
August
27,
2019
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15:02 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Good Morning America recently interviewed Sam Torbati, MD, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, about heat-related injuries after a 16-year-old basketball player died in Georgia while at a conditioning …
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August
18,
2019
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08:46 AM
America/Los_Angeles
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt recently interviewed Sam Torbati, MD, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai for a report on the rising rates of electric scooter-related injuries and deaths. …
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July
08,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
In 1976, Joel Geiderman, MD, graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and decided he would take a leap of faith and specialize in a new area of medicine: emergency medicine.
Geiderman's choice was unique at the time. It …
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June
01,
2019
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11:13 AM
America/Los_Angeles
MDLinx recently interviewed Joel Geiderman, MD, FACEP, professor and co-chairman of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, about a recently published article addressing the ethical and practical considerations of medical requests from friends and …
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2018
August
15,
2018
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14:26 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and NBC News recently interviewed one of Cedars-Sinai’s top emergency medicine experts about the dangers posed by the trendy electric scooters for rent that are popping up in U.S. cities from coast to …
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July
16,
2018
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05:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Motorized scooters are making quite the splash in pedestrian-heavy cities from Santa Monica, California, to Washington, D.C. They’re ubiquitous, inexpensive to rent, easy to unload and fun.
They’re also dangerous. These small electric …
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July
06,
2018
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17:24 PM
America/Los_Angeles
With California in the grips of a dangerous, record-breaking heat wave, Sam Torbati, MD, co-chair and medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, says a little awareness goes a long way toward preventing heat …
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