Browsing: December 2020

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Career Planning , COVID-19 , Workplace

8 Tips to Finding a Job During a Global Pandemic

12/1/2020 Deena Khamees, MD
A pandemic has introduced the house of medicine to unprecedented numbers of hiring freezes, suspended bonuses, and scaled-back continuing medical education funds and stipends. Add to that looming cuts
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Social EM , Pain Management

Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

12/1/2020 Kyla Rakoczy , Kasha Bornstein, MSc Pharm, EMT-P , Suzanne Bialeck, MD, RDMS
Ongoing barriers to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder contribute to a major care gap, with only 10% of patients seeking long-term OUD treatment able to receive it. It's time to imp
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Critical Care , Trauma

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Can't-Miss Diagnosis and Management

12/1/2020 Blake Briggs, MD , Marlena Wosiski-Kuhn, MD, PhD
Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a terrifying, relatively frequent cause of intracranial bleeding. It has a significant degree of morbidity and mortality - and therefore is a can't-miss diagnosis.
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Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know President-Elect Angela Cai, MD, MBA

12/1/2020 Angela Cai, MD, MBA
The EMRA Representative Council chose Angela Cai, MD, MBA, as EMRA President-elect in October. Get to know Dr. Cai.
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Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know Your President: RJ Sontag, MD

12/1/2020 RJ Sontag, MD
RJ Sontag, MD, inherited the gavel of EMRA President in October. Learn more about his goals, experience, and outlook.
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Heart of EM , COVID-19 , Wellness

Heart of EM: I Answered

12/1/2020 Sharland Johnson, MD
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the hospital bursting at the seams and patients growing sicker and sicker as they edged toward a lonely death, I answered.
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Infectious Disease

Lefamulin: Potential Role of a New Antibiotic in Community Acquired Pneumonia

12/1/2020 Mortatha Al-Bassam, MD , Vir Singh, MD, MBS , Bobby Desai, MD , Latha Ganti, MD, FACEP
A novel antibiotic that may play a role in ED management of community acquired pneumonia is lefamulin. What is this medication? How could it fit in the ED paradigm for pneumonia treatment?
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Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know Ashley Tarchione, MD, Vice Speaker of the Council

12/1/2020 Ashley Tarchione, MD
Do you know who leads the EMRA Representative Council, which sets priorities and directions for the association? Meet your newest Vice Speaker of the Council, Ashley Tarchione.
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Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Cardiology

Critical Care Alert: ECMO Facilitated CPR for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation - The ARREST Trial

12/1/2020 Jonathan Pickos, DO , Sean M. Hickey, MD
What is possible with highly coordinated ECMO-facilitated cardiopulmonary resuscitation? A recent study demonstrates the value of exploring interesting alternatives such as ECMO cannulation in the eme
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Airway , Research

Updates in the Airway

12/1/2020 Cameron Upchurch, MD , Joshua Kornegay, MD
The year of 2019 ushered in an abundance of interesting, practice-informing, and excellently conducted research regarding airway and peri-intubation management that is potentially applicable to the em