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Medical Education , Airway

Pay No Attention to the Intern Behind the Curtain: Tips for Success on Your Anesthesia Rotation

10/7/2021 Richard Cunningham, MD

Endotracheal intubation is one of the most high-stakes and critical procedures we as emergency physicians perform. Because there are fundamental differences between airway management under emergent an

Career Planning , Practice Environments , Community , Prehospital Care

Tactical Medicine Q-and-A: Life as a SWAT Doc

10/7/2021 Sriram Venkatesan, FAWM , Capt. Yev Maksimenko, MD, MA, DiMM, FAWM, FP-C

With > 50,000 yearly SWAT deployments in the U.S. alone and tactical environments that are not optimized for medical care, the need for well-trained physician-led tactical medical teams is clear. What

Ultrasound , Cardiology

Point-of-care Echocardiography in the Undifferentiated Patient: A Case Report

10/7/2021 Jacob Lenning, MD , Nasser Bazoun, DO

Left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR) is a rare and usually fatal complication of myocardial infarction (MI). Fortunately, echocardiography is very sensitive and specific - and emergency physicia

Neurology

A Compelling Finding of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

10/7/2021 Kiran Akbani , Kevin Hargrave, MD , Aaron Tiffee, MD, FACEP

The complexity and variety of signs and symptoms associated with temporal lobe epilepsy make this condition notably difficult to diagnose.

ECG Challenge , Cardiology

ECG Challenge: October-November 2021

10/6/2021 W. Brandon White, DO , Jeremy Berberian, MD

A 61-year-old male with past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to the emergency department with 8/10 substernal chest pain. What is your interpretation of his ECG?

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , Health Care Administration , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Collaboration Is Key

10/6/2021 Diana Halloran, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD

When doctors collaborate with social workers, patients and health systems alike reap the benefits, according to analysis by the Health Policy Journal Club.

President's Message , Leadership

20,000 Reasons to Serve

10/6/2021 RJ Sontag, MD

Autumn is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and to consider what we are thankful for. Looking back on my term as EMRA’s president, I can think of about 20,000 reasons to be thankful.

Editor's Forum , Wellness , COVID-19

Stages of Success

10/6/2021 Priyanka Lauber, DO

What is culture, especially organizational culture? More important: How can a single individual affect the culture of an entire group? These 5 stages of success shed some light on that question.

Awards , Award Winners

Excellence in EM: Honoring EMRA's Awards Recipients

10/6/2021

EMRA strives to help you be the best doctor and leader you can be, helping to make emergency medicine the best specialty it can be. These outstanding physicians and trainees have gone an extra mile -

Critical Care , Ultrasound , Critical Care Ultrasound

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Augmenting the Physical Exam with Ultrasound Findings in Cardiac Tamponade

10/5/2021 Taylor Miller, MD , Alexis Salerno, MD, FACEP , Dustin Slagle, MD

Cardiac tamponade is a critical emergency department diagnosis, but it can be a difficult diagnosis to make based on physical exam alone. Clinical signs of tamponade are often late findings and can be