Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Cardiology

Critical Care Alert: Femoral artery Doppler ultrasound is more accurate than manual palpation for pulse detection in cardiac arrest

8/1/2022 Erin Bell, MD , Taylor Miller, MD

Critical Care Alert: Femoral artery Doppler ultrasound is more accurate than manual palpation for pulse detection in cardiac arrest. Although it was a small study, it sheds light on resuscitation mana

Match , Medical Students

Program Director Interview Series: Michael A Schindlbeck MD, FACEP, FAAEM | EM Residency Program Director at Cook County in Chicago, IL

7/25/2022 Sahar Rammaha

In the latest installment of our PD Q&A series covering the Midwest, we spoke with Michael A Schindlbeck MD, FACEP, FAAEM, program director at Cook County in Chicago, IL, about the community of his pr

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy

Health Policy Journal Club: Are You Sick Enough to Need the ED?

7/6/2022 Kirstin Woody Scott, MD, MPhil, PhD , Vidya Eswaran, MD

Insurance companies are penalizing emergency department patients whose conditions ultimately don't turn out to be true emergencies - and evidence shows the algorithms using ICD codes to retrospectivel

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Cardiology

Critical Care Alert: Association of Advanced Airway Insertion Timing and Outcomes in Out-of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

6/28/2022 Aaron Lim, MD , Roshan Givergis, DO , Neil Dasgupta, MD , Lyncean Ung, DO , Jijoe Joseph, DO, MBA

Our retrospective secondary analysis of data from the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial (PART), examining the timing of airway management in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, found that: (1) there wa

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology

Critical Care Alert: Termination-of-resuscitation Rule in the ED Following Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

6/15/2022 Erin Bell, MD , Taylor Miller, MD

A recent study aimed to develop and validate a modified Goto’s termination-of-resuscitation rule. The results can inform emergency department management of patients who suffered out-of-hospital cardia

ECG Challenge , Cardiology

ECG Challenge: June-July 2022

6/10/2022 Eric Lieu, MD , Jeremy Berberian, MD

A 36-year-old female with a PMH of alcohol use disorder and type 1 DM presents with substernal chest tightness, nausea, vomiting, and diaphoresis. What is your interpretation of her ECG?

Orthopedics

Total Knee Arthroplasty Dislocation: A Case Study

6/10/2022 Sophia Gorgens, MD , Alexander Chasin, MD , Waroot Nimjareansuk, DO , Bryan McCarty, MD , Philipp Underwood, MD

Knee dislocations are a true orthopedic emergency and require immediate imaging and reduction. Even with non-operative management, a return to full activity takes months of physical therapy and rehabi

Opinion-Editorial

Synthetic Cannabinoids Highlight the Need to Abandon the War on Drugs

6/10/2022 Timothy Kelly, MD

Illegal and unregulated marijuana markets in parts of our country have given rise to dangerous and easily obtainable synthetic options. The ill effects of this predictable phenomenon are being felt in

Award Winners , Grants , Travel Scholarships

Scholarship winner helps implement early HCC screening in Tanzanian EDs

6/10/2022 James Ford, MD

EMF/EMRA research grant recipient and EMRA scholarship award winner James Ford spend four weeks in Tanzania on a pilot project that employs rapid Hepatitis B testing and ultrasound in the ED to screen

Airway , Ventilator Management , EMS , Pediatric EM

Pediatric Drowning Case: Favorable Neurologic Outcomes Possible With Prolonged CPR

6/10/2022 Dimitri Livshits, DO , Brenda Sokup, DO , Jordan Jeong, DO , Nirav Patel, DO , Mark Kindschuh, MD

Currently, there are no definitive guidelines or robust clinical evidence on which to base the duration of CPR in pediatric drowning cases. However, we make the case that in select drowning patients,

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