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At the beginning of my term as your EMRA president, one of our priorities was for EMRA to be the leading source of career planning guidance as you work your way through residency, graduate, and tackle
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The field of EM continues to grow and evolve. Should practitioners adapt and expand their acceptance of patient visits for care of chronic issues that can be considered life-threatening?
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Point-of-care ultrasound may be the best, and quickest, way to diagnose Fournier’s Gangrene, an acute necrotic infection of the perineal, genital, or perianal regions.
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A new study shows how firearm restrictions reduce the deaths of pregnant women and new mothers. The Health Policy Journal Club highlights what that can mean for emergency medicine.
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Patients experiencing critical illness necessitating mechanical ventilation have high mortality rates. Additionally, survivors of critically ill mechanical ventilation experience high morbidity. Sever
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Knowing when to stop volume resuscitation in the unstable shock patient is a question that plagues both the emergency physician and the critical care doctor. VExUS was designed to succeed where CVP ha
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In this month’s addition to the Program Director Interview Series we got to chat with Jordan Spector, MD to learn about the BMC EM Residency Program. Dr. Spector tells us more about residency in New E
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Post-resuscitation shock occurs in 50-70% of patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and this study provides evidence that norepinephrine is likely a preferable vasopressor to epinephrine in po
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Ultrasound is a powerful tool in the emergency department for the estimation of left ventricular ejection fractions. E-Point Septal Separation is a good way to obtain these measurements, but what if t
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The evidence surrounding ECPR continues to build. In this study, investigators demonstrated a 31.5% survival rate with favorable 180-day neurological outcome with ECPR in patients who suffered out-of-