Gastroenterology

Flood Syndrome: A Ruptured Umbilical Hernia in a Patient with Severe Ascites

4/14/2024 Michael Farney, DO , Earl Quinn Cummings, MD

Flood syndrome is defined as a spontaneous rupture of an umbilical hernia leading to sudden loss of ascitic fluid. It is a rare condition that carries a high mortality rate.

Editor's Forum

The Power of Emergency Medicine: Sculpting the Leaders Within Us

4/14/2024 Morgan Sweere, MD, MPH

Leadership — in addition to being 1 of the 3 main pillars at the heart of EMRA’s mission (the other 2 being education and advocacy) — is part of the hidden curriculum of emergency medicine. How do we

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Final Destination

4/11/2024 Phillip Groden, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Rachel Solnick, MD

Does triage create a bias that might contribute to mis-diagnosis? The Health Policy Journal Club evaluates a recent study of the Emergency Severity Index.

ECG Challenge , Cardiology , Medical Education

ECG Challenge: April-May-June 2024

4/11/2024 Alec Good, DO , Daniel Regino, DO , Jeremy Berberian, MD

A 64-year-old male with past medical history of HTN, CAD, and prior MI presents due to substernal chest pain. What is your interpretation of his ECG?

Awards , Award Winners

EMRA Annual Award Winners 2024

4/10/2024

Congratulations to the winners of our 2024 EMRA Annual Awards!

Administration & Operations

Eclipse Study: Can Celestial Forces Affect ED Visits and Acuity?

4/10/2024 Aaron J. Grossberg, DO , Jessie K. Cable, DO , Rakael D. Brown, DO , Sagar C. Galwankar, MBBS , Ali Z. Al-Rawi, MD

Our study, examining how eclipses affect human behavior in terms of ED visits and acuity, suggests that the presence of an eclipse does not detrimentally affect human behavior. Human beings are sentie

President's Message

Celebrating 50 Years as the Voice of the Future of EM

4/10/2024 Blake Denley, MD

Half a century ago, our association was founded with a vision of service to, and representation of, emergency medicine residents. EMRA has kept that charge at the core of its mission.

Op-Ed , Social EM

Sustainability in Health Care: What is the Role of Small-Scale Accountability?

4/8/2024 Sabrina Ciervo

In the ED, simple cost-effective interventions leading to small-scale success toward sustainability are excellent starting points to establish environmental accountability beginning at the department

Op-Ed , Addiction Medicine , Recreational Drugs

The Fentanyl-Tainted Drug Supply Requires EDs to do More

3/26/2024 Timothy Kelly, MD

The ever-growing frequency of patients presenting to the emergency department with fentanyl overdoses — and fentanyl’s surging presence in cocaine and other black-market drugs — demands that we, as em

Infectious Disease

Case Report: Malaria, Dengue, and COVID-19 in a Migrant Entering the United States

3/25/2024 Russell Baker, DO , Brian Elmore, MD , Cynthia Rincon, DO

Migrants are vulnerable to various tropical diseases as they traverse regions enroute to the United States. These diseases include malaria, mosquito-borne arboviruses, and helminth diseases. The congr

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