Practical Tips: When and How to Use a Femoral Nerve Block

4/15/2014 Marsia Vermeulen, DO, FACEP , Kara Otterness, MD

Practical Tips: When and How to Use a Femoral Nerve Block An 82-year-old female shows up in your ED with severe hip pain after a fall at home. You already know what the x-ray is before you see it

Prehospital Care

Outside the ED: How EMS can Improve Your Emergency Medicine Residency

4/15/2014 Adam Darnobid, MD, FACEP

Outside the ED: How EMS can Improve Your Emergency Medicine Residency Pre-hospital medicine offers unique opportunities to an EM physician, and EMS training complements the emergency medicine curric

Prehospital Care

What EMS Teaches Us

4/15/2014 Emily McClain, MD

What EMS Teaches Us “I'm scared.” The young woman was tearful. These were the words of a patient from our first call of the day, a woman from the local jail with a possible miscarriage. She had had

Wilderness Medicine

Management of Hypothermia from Wilderness to the ED

4/14/2014 Nicholas Daniel, DO

Management of Hypothermia from Wilderness to the ED Wilderness medicine entails the treatment of exposure-related maladies in the middle of nowhere. Well, not always. While this blossoming field of e

Medical Students , Osteopathic

Osteopathic EM: Two Roads, One Destination

4/13/2014 Zach Jarou, MD , Bradley Davis, DO

Osteopathic EM: Two Roads, One Destination The Changing Training Landscape In February 2014, after months of discussion, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Accreditation Council for G

Critical Care

A Brief Review of Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure

4/11/2014 Semhar Tewelde, MD , Adeleke Oni, MD

A Brief Review of Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure A 56-year-old male with a history of end stage COPD, sarcoidosis, and pulmonary hypertension comes into your ED in respiratory failure. His initial o

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