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Event Medicine

On Doctoring at the Olympics

8/9/2017 Justin D. Burkholder, DO , Brian M. Scheele, DO, MS

On Doctoring at the Olympics An Insider's View of Event Medicine Editor's note: During the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two adventurous emergency medicine residents served as

Resolutions , Representative Council , Speaker Report , Leadership Reports

Anatomy of an EMRA Resolution

8/9/2017 Tiffany Jackson, MD , Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH, FACEP

Anatomy of an EMRA Resolution The EMRA Representative Council passed a whopping 16 resolutions at its spring meeting in Orlando, tackling topics ranging from electronic and remote voting (now approve

Burnout , Editorial

The Daddy Diaries: Emergency Tee-ball

8/9/2017 Eric McDonald, MD

The Daddy Diaries: Emergency Tee-ball Editor's note: Dr. McDonald and his wife are raising 7 children as he completes his third year of residency, serves on the EMRA Board, and represents residents o

Ultrasound , Clinical , Ophthalmology

Floaters: Retinal Detachment, Posterior Vitreous Detachment, or Vitreous Hemorrhage?

8/9/2017 Marsia Vermeulen, DO, FACEP , Leah McDonald, MD

Floaters: Retinal Detachment, Posterior Vitreous Detachment, or Vitreous Hemorrhage? A 68-year-old female with a history of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presents to the emergency depart

Wilderness Medicine

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness

8/9/2017 Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM , Charles Duke, MD, PhD

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness Improvised medicine might be viewed as a skill reserved for the wilderness — for the people who can whittle an entire trauma bay out of a few sticks.

Critical Care

Post-Intubation Sedation

8/9/2017 Joshua Glick, MD , Clark Owyang, MD , Christina Candeloro, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Post-Intubation Sedation Bridging the Gap Between the Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit The practice of endotracheal intubation is often executed as follows: the endotracheal tube is p

EMPower

Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FACEP, FAEMS

8/9/2017 EM Resident

Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FACEP, FAEMS EMRA President, 1996-1997 EMRA Board of Directors, 1995-1998 ACEP Councillor 2008-2015 ACEP Alternate Councillor 2016- Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicia

Editor's Forum , Editorial

Letter from the Editor

8/9/2017 Abby Cosgrove, MD

Letter from the Editor Every year as interns don their long white coats for the first time ever, swipe their glossy name badges, and figure out where the bathrooms are, I have flashbacks to my first

Visual Diagnosis , Clinical

Diagnose this Condition

8/8/2017 Rachel Liu, MD, FACEP , Cristiana Baloescu, MD

Diagnose this Condition The Patient A 28-year-old female, who was the restrained front passenger in a motor vehicle accident 1 week before, presents to the ED with abdominal pain. A CT scan of th

Match

Does Your Step 1 Score Really Matter?

7/18/2017 Hania Flaten

Does Your Step 1 Score Really Matter? Taking Step 1 is a rite of passage for medical students. If you tell an upperclassman you are studying for this test, they will commiserate with you, remembering