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Paramedics around Colorado must stop using ketamine to sedate people for excited delirium, following an order from state health officials. Denver Health is one of dozens of EMS providers affected.
Colorado’s public health department issued an order Wednesday that prevents paramedics from using ketamine to sedate people in situations like the one involving Elijah McClain. The change came just hours after Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1251, which he said in a statement is meant to “restore trust in law enforcement.”
The bill limits medics’ use of ketamine to sedate people to medical emergencies. That change and many others in the bill is leading the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to modify training, reporting and accountability requirements for sedating people with the drug.
The Endocrine Society a professional organization of more than 18,000 health care providers and scientists worldwide praised the American Medical Association's House of Delegates for passing a resolution opposing efforts to criminalize medical care for transgender youth.
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Expanding Medicare to include people ages 60 to 64 remains a divisive issue among members of the American Medical Association House of Delegates.
In total, 1.7 million Americans between ages 60 and 64 remain uninsured; another 3.8 million are on Medicaid, Rajadhar Reddy, an alternate delegate and medical student from Houston speaking on behalf of the Medical Student Section, said at a meeting of the AMA reference committee on medical service. We have a unique opportunity in this momentous time in health reform to either expand or increase coverage for another 5.5 million people through this proposal. Reddy was explaining the section s proposal that our American Medical Association advocate that the eligibility threshold to receive Medicare as a federal entitlement be lowered from age 65 to age 60.