Social EM

Training the Front Line: Substance Use Disorder Education for EM Residents

8/17/2020 Lucinda Lai, MD, MPhil

A grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has helped ACEP, ABEM, CORD, and EMRA develop a curriculum for emergency medicine residency programs. Learn how to help recog

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Urology , Pediatric EM

Dysuria and Progressive Abdominal Pain in a Male Pediatric Patient

8/17/2020 Carolina Vega, MD , Chelsey Yurkovich, DO , Jennifer Noble, MD, FAAP

Pediatric patients with abdominal pain and dysuria - even older children - may be suffering the effects of infected urachal remnants. How can you treat this condition?

Palliative Care , COVID-19

Terminal Extubation in the ED: Palliative Care in EM

8/17/2020 Marc Cassone, DO , Garrett Stoltzfus, MD , Eric Melnychuk, DO

Providing palliation and end-of-life care has become an important aspect of emergency medicine; this has become especially relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comfort measures and terminal extubati

Wilderness Medicine

A Model for EM Resident and Ski Patrol Cross-Educational Training Day

8/17/2020 Marc Cassone, DO , Christopher Cardillo, DO , Jennifer Spinozzi, MD

Pre-hospital groups like ski patrol provide a great opportunity for EM residents to lead cross-educational training days - while becoming more prepared themselves.

EMS

Emergency Medical Dispatch: The True First Responder

8/17/2020 Bryan Everitt, MD, NRP , Katherine K. Raczek, MD

Each year, an estimated 240 million calls are made to 911, mostly by people with no previous EMS interaction. At the other end of the call is often a specially trained call-taker who - without ever se

Pediatric EM , Orthopedics

Cervical Spine Injuries in the Pediatric Population

8/17/2020 Nicholas Kos , Myrna Aboudiab , Zaza Atanelov, MD, MPH , Amber Hathcock, MD

Although cervical spine injuries are rare among the pediatric population, when you do see a child with a spinal injury, there's a 60-80% likelihood the c-spine is involved.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Management: Classical Treatments for a New Disease

8/17/2020 Jayson Fernando, MD, MS , Jonathan Meadows, DO, MS, MPH, CPH , Michael Marlin, MD

Given the global pandemic of the novel SARS-CoV-2, clinical trials are underway to elucidate an effective treatment. Be aware of the potential risks.

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: The Ethics of Allocation

7/7/2020 Logan Ramsey, MD

In the midst of a global pandemic, with worsening COVID-19 case numbers in the United States, the fair and equitable allocation of limited health care resources poses a challenge. How can clinicians p

COVID-19 , EMS

PPE in the Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic

6/28/2020 Hajirah Ishaq, DO, MS , Caity Friend

Prehospital personnel are truly on the frontlines of medicine, and they have been dramatically affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As protocols shift according to supplies and emerging research, how

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Effects of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 - Preliminary Report

6/26/2020 Taylor Miller, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD , Trevor R. Pour, MD

As much of the U.S. experiences a resurgence of COVID-19 cases heading into the height of summer, research continues at a brisk pace. Can dexamethasone - a relatively inexpensive, commonly prescribed

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