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.
Provide high-quality, cost-effective care and and employ prudent stewardship of health care resources.
Support of the development of adequate injury data and surveillance systems.
Importance of AED availability
Procedures for uses of drug-assisted intubation (DAI)
Guidelines for the role of EMS personnel in domestic violence.
Assess patients for family violence in all its forms,
Resuscitative efforts may be discontinued in the out-of-hospital setting for pulseless patients who do not respond to an adequate trial of resuscitation therapy
rovide prompt and accurate information to patients and their representatives about their medical condition and its treatment.
Emergency physicians should assume a primary role in the medical aspects of disaster planning, management, and patient care.
National credentialing mechanism and up-to-date database of available physicians and medical volunteers who could be deployed as needed in the face of a national emergency.
Develop real-time syndromic surveillance capturing a majority of clinical illnesses and injury patterns on a mass scale
Direction of out-of-hospital care should be the responsibility of the individual in attendance who is most appropriately trained and knowledgeable in providing out-of-hospital emergency management and transport
Treatment of undocumented persons.
Emergency medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of unforeseen illness or injury.
Responsibilities of an emergency service provider.
Use of a family-centered and team-oriented approach when a child dies in the ED.
Importance of cultural awareness
Causes and effects of crowding.
Disapproval of the use of any form of corporal punishment.
Revised and approved by the ACEP Board of Directors June 2008 Reaffirmed by the ACEP Board of Directors October 2001 Approved by the ACEP Board of Directors September 1997 Approved by the ACEP Board of Directors January 1996 Officers, Directors, Committee Chairs, Section Chairs, staff, and others acting on
Board members and Council officers of ACEP shall not provide expert testimony in professional liability litigation during his or her term in office.
Compensation arrangements for emergency physicians.
The College believes that it is the duty of emergency physicians to work for the continuous availability of emergency medical care should a work stoppage occur.
A Compendium of ACEP Policy Statements on Ethical Issues Revised April 2011
ACEP supports the use of written department guidelines or policies addressing the commitment of emergency patients.