ACEP board-approved policy statements highlight the scope of issues being addressed in emergency medicine. New policies are initially distributed to ACEP members via Annals of Emergency Medicine and posted here. In addition, the ACEP Board of Directors has directed that all policy statements undergo automatic review when they are seven years old. Unless a policy still contains relevant information, it will then sunset. Due to the extensive time required to review seven-year-old or older policies, some are still under review.
Qualifications for an expert witness
Scope of practice programs
Care for underage patients.
Helping patients and their families deal with EOL issues.
Ethical issues of resuscitation.
Appropriate equipment and supplies to provide necessary patient care
Ethical responsibility for EMS
EMS role in the community.
Emergency physician's principal legal and ethical responsibility.
Resource utilization in the emergency department.
Well being of emergency physicians.
High-quality emergency care is best provided when emergency physicians practice in a fair and equitable environment.
Overhead expenses.
Principles for EP contractual relationships.
Organ and tissue donation and procurement procedures.
Shortage of physicians appropriately trained and certified in emergency medicine.
Standards for competency and defining professional practice principles.
Emergency care of children with special needs
Steps recommended to minimize the impact of community wide influenza
Resources and planning needed to meet the emergency medical care needs of the individual and the community.
Management of observation units.
Support for registered nurses who are trained and experienced in the practice of emergency nursing.
Use of non-prescription emergency contraception
Use of national standards for data elements in ED and EMS information systems.
Patients be transported under the direction of an EMS system should be taken, whenever possible, to a hospital facility that meets the Emergency Department Planning and Resource Guidelines of ACEP.