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Prehospital Care

Backboards: Do They Really Have Your Back?

4/15/2014 Jose V. Nable, MD, NRP , Christina L. Tupe, MD
Backboards: Do They Really Have Your Back? Spinal immobilization has long been considered standard practice for pre-hospital trauma patients. Placing patients on long spinal boards is one of the most
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Ultrasound , Pain Management , Clinical

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
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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
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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
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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
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Global EM Fellowships

A Guide to International Emergency Medicine Fellowships

4/14/2014 Nathan Ramsey, MD , Gabrielle Jacquet, MD, MPH , Bhakti Hansoti, MBChB, MPH
A Guide to International Emergency Medicine Fellowships Finding Your Niche in the World There are over 30 International Emergency Medicine (IEM) fellowship programs, with more being added every year.
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Leadership Reports , ACGME RC-EM

Council of Review Committee Residents Meeting

4/14/2014 Brandon Allen, MD
Council of Review Committee Residents Meeting It's been a busy beginning to 2014. The week after our EMRA Board of Directors retreat for strategic planning, I traveled to Chicago for the biannual Cou
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Editorial , Medical Education

The Times They are A'Changing

4/14/2014 David Diller, MD
The Times They are A'Changing The world of emergency medicine education has been inundated by talk of competency-based assessments. As you may have noticed, the Milestones have arrived, and they've b
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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
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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