EMERGENCY MEDICINE NEWS FOR VIRGINIA
Check back often to get the latest news for the Commonwealth’s emergency physicians. You can also check out EmergencyPhysicians.org, the official ACEP news site.
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Check back often to get the latest news for the Commonwealth’s emergency physicians. You can also check out EmergencyPhysicians.org, the official ACEP news site.
For many physicians, receiving notice of a Virginia Board of Medicine complaint can be one of the most stressful experiences of their career — even when the complaint is unfounded and ultimately dismissed. Here’s a new law that will help improve the process, along with a handbook you can use in the event you are served with a complaint.
A thirty-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) as the unrestrained driver of a rollover motor vehicle accident. During his trauma assessment, the patient becomes progressively more dyspneic, and you are unable to auscultate breath sounds on the right chest wall. Do you reach for the pigtail catheter (PTC) (</=14 French) or the large bore catheter (LBC) that you were trained to place for a hemothorax (28-32 French)?
A Virginia law will change how and when certain diagnostic results are released to patients. It’s a shift that could have significant implications for emergency departments. Here’s what it means for emergency physicians and health systems.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed several bills into law that carry implications for emergency physicians, hospital operations, and patient care across Virginia. See how medicine in Virginia has changed.
A patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) by emergency medical services (EMS) with concern for sepsis. The patient has a history of urosepsis but is oriented with vital signs in the normal range. You - the physician - are deciding if it is appropriate to sepsis alert the patient now, or if you should first collect more data. What other information could be used to better inform this decision?
ACEP and VACEP outline transparency, due process, and patient care priorities amid Valley Health’s emergency medicine contract transition.
It is a busy shift when a 61-year-old male presents to your ED with chest pain. He is roomed immediately, but your lobby is pushing capacity and there are 42 admitted patients boarding in your department. How do you maximize throughput while maintaining high-quality patient care?
The 2026 Virginia General Assembly has adjourned. Emergency physicians closely watched several major policy debates, including a proposal to dramatically raise Virginia’s medical malpractice cap, legislation affecting physician assistant practice authority, new restrictions on healthcare non-compete agreements, and ongoing efforts to address workplace violence and behavioral health challenges in the Commonwealth’s healthcare system. Here’s a recap.
Learn when and how emergency physicians in Virginia can obtain a medical TDO to continue medically necessary stabilization and treatment when a patient lacks decision-making capacity.
In a late session move, the General Assembly is pushing legislation that would increase Virginia’s medical malpractice cap.