Browsing: June 2015

Health Policy , Advocacy , Affordable Care Act

Supreme Court Upholds ACA

6/26/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA

Supreme Court Upholds ACA The Supreme Court on June 25 ruled in the case of King v. Burwell, upholding a major provision of the Affordable Care Act. In a 6-3 decision, the court sided with Secretary

Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal , Clinical , Critical Care , Shock

Diagnosing and Managing Shock

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Diagnosing and Managing Shock From the March 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosis and Management of Shock in the Emergency Department.” Reprinted with permission. To access your EMRA

Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Blue Leg

6/15/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD

Blue Leg The Patient A 46-year-old male presents to the emergency department complaining of excruciating right leg pain. The pain began with a mild aching the day prior to admission along with some d

Clinical , Toxicology , Recreational Drugs

X: The Toxidrome

6/15/2015 Erich A. Lidstone, MD, PhD , Danish Malik, MD

X: The Toxidrome Note: Incorrect author information appeared in the print edition and has been corrected here. We apologize for the error and confusion. A 24-year-old female is brought into your ED b

Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls , Clinical , Pediatric EM

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants From the March 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “A Systematic Approach to the Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants i

Events & Activities , CORD Academic Assembly

Resident Updates from #CORDAA15

6/14/2015 Zach Jarou, MD

Resident Updates from #CORDAA15 The Council of Emergency Medicine Program Directors (@CORD_EM) was formed in 1989 to promote “excellence in emergency medicine education through collaboration, innovat

Ethics , Medical Students , International EM

Ethical Dilemmas During the Global Health Elective

6/13/2015 Anand Selvam, MD

Ethical Dilemmas During the Global Health Elective The Other Side of the Looking Glass The blood will not stop flowing. Marked with many of the sequelae of late-stage AIDS, my 19-year-old HIV-positiv

Clinical , Critical Care , Sepsis , Pediatric EM

In Shock: The Approach to Pediatric Sepsis

6/13/2015 Jessica Wall, MD

In Shock: The Approach to Pediatric Sepsis Introduction and Sepsis Review Whether in a pediatric or adult patient, the physiologic process of sepsis remains the same. Sepsis is a systemic inflammator

Research

Backing Up the Evidence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

6/13/2015 Joshua Davis, MD

Backing Up the Evidence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis A meta-analysis or systematic review (MA/SR) can be a powerful tool to aggregate data on a specific question and arrive at a universal ans

Clinical , Ultrasound , Pain Management

Three-in-One: The Forearm Nerve Block

6/13/2015 Marsia Vermeulen, DO, FACEP , Andrew Oh, MD

Three-in-One: The Forearm Nerve Block A 29-year-old carpenter rushes into your emergency department with a 6 cm laceration on the palmar aspect of his hand after mishandling a power saw. The lacerati