Browsing: June 2017

Health Policy Journal Club

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price

6/6/2017 Elizabeth Sherrill, MD

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price Every 1% increase in uninsured leads to a $20 increase in ER bills for privately insured. "When someone without health coverage gets urgent—often expensive—medi

Medical Education , Resident

I Smell a Rat: Advocating for Resident As Teacher

6/6/2017 Nicholas Governatori, MD

I Smell a Rat: Advocating for Resident As Teacher It looked like a scene from a horror movie — tiny bones scattered over the kitchen table vaguely resembling an amateur archeological adventure into a

Medical Education , Simulation

Medical Simulation 102: Introduction to Simulation in EM Residency

6/6/2017 Xiao C. "Tony" Zhang, MD, MS , Shehni Nadeem, MD , Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH, FACEP

Medical Simulation 102: Introduction to Simulation in EM Residency The goal for simulation is not task completion but optimization. Medical simulation was first formalized with roots in military medi

Protecting the Protectors: Physician Roles in Tactical Emergency Medicine Support

6/6/2017 Jonathan Hardy, DO , Faroukh Mehkri, DO

Protecting the Protectors: Physician Roles in Tactical Emergency Medicine Support Just before 9 pm on a warm July evening in Dallas, gunfire rang out during a protest. As civilians ran, the men and w

Health Policy

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA

6/6/2017 Christopher Parks, MD

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA MACRA is going to bring about change whether providers are ready for it or not. The process in which health care providers and hospitals are re

Editorial , Wellness , Compassion Fatigue

The Crucible of Medicine: Reflections on Becoming a Doctor

6/6/2017 Debra Ravert, MD

The Crucible of Medicine: Reflections on Becoming a Doctor I entered the third year of medical school with great excitement. I was finally out of the classroom and seeing real patients, connecting w

EMPower

Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP

6/6/2017 EM Resident

Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP Name/credentials: Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP; @afishermd @TeamMaveRx Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Residency: Christiana Care Health

Critical Care

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You

6/5/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Clark Owyang, MD

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You All these factors coalesce in the trauma bay to create a downward spiral of shock where life-saving interventions wrestle with each other as the patient

Critical Care

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV

6/5/2017 Julie Dodson, MD , Jeffrey Goodloe, MD, NREMT-P, FACEP , Chance Dodson, MSII , Boyd Burns, DO

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV It is important for the emergency physician to be comfortable directing and troubleshooting NIPPV in order to promote optimal patient outcomes. Paramedics

Toxicology , Medications

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse

6/5/2017 Thomas del Ninno, MD , R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, FACEPP , Danya Khoujah, MD

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, resulting in a significant increase in overdose deaths.1 From 2000 to 2014, there was