Browsing: April 2017

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Alison Haddock, MD, FACEP

4/2/2017 EM Resident

Alison Haddock, MD, FACEP If you're interested in health care policy issues, you've heard of — and most likely have met — Alison Haddock. Since her second year of residency, Dr. Haddock has been a st

Cardiology

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly

4/2/2017 Noah White, MD, FACEP , Gregory Wu, MD , Christopher Hanowitz, MD

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly A 63-year-old male is brought in by EMS after having a witnessed cardiac arrest while at work. Bystander CPR was started immediatel

Research , Rapid Research Review , Advancement of EM

Rapid Research Review: Data Sets and Summary Indexes

4/2/2017 EM Resident

Rapid Research Review: Data Sets and Summary Indexes Olga Kovalerchik, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, EMRA Research Committee, Vice-Chair, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT You've just finishe

Medical Education , Mentorship , Med Student

Setting Up for Success: The Importance of Medical Student Mentorship

4/2/2017 Tommy Eales, DO

Setting Up for Success: The Importance of Medical Student Mentorship Whether through formal arrangements or casual interactions, medical students depend on the guidance of resident mentors to help th

Orthopedics

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain

4/2/2017 Danya Khoujah, MD , Ahmed Al Hazmi, MD, MBBS

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain Low back pain (LBP) is one of the top 5 chief complaints among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED), making it an imp

Cardiology , Critical Care

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure

4/2/2017 Mark Andreae, MD , Chad Meyers, MD

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure A 50-year-old woman with a history of primary pulmonary hypertension with right ventricular dysfunction presents with one week of worsening abdominal pain. Sh

Informatics , Security

Hospitals and Hackers: Keeping Patients Safe From Cyber Attacks

4/1/2017 Christian Dameff, MD, MS

Hospitals and Hackers: Keeping Patients Safe From Cyber Attacks An 83-year-old female with a history of sick sinus syndrome status post pacemaker implantation presents to the emergency department (ED

Representative Council , Program Reps , Leadership , Speaker Report

How to be an EMRA Program Representative

4/1/2017 Tiffany Jackson, MD

How to be an EMRA Program Representative Remember the saying “drinking from a firehose” we all learn during medical school? That's how I felt at my first EMRA Representative Council meeting. As I en

Legislation , Recreational Drugs , Health Policy

Weeding through the Effects of Marijuana Legalization

4/1/2017 Patrick Wallace, DO

Weeding through the Effects of Marijuana Legalization Legalization of marijuana has become a heated topic in the United States as 8 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized it for recreational use

President's Message , Advocacy

Caring for All in a Divided Society

4/1/2017 Alicia Kurtz, MD

Caring for All in a Divided Society If you're anything like me, the latest news headlines have left a part of you feeling uneasy. Whether you're conservative or liberal leaning, it seems safe to say