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Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know Your President: RJ Sontag, MD

12/1/2020 RJ Sontag, MD

RJ Sontag, MD, inherited the gavel of EMRA President in October. Learn more about his goals, experience, and outlook.

Career Planning , COVID-19 , Workplace

8 Tips to Finding a Job During a Global Pandemic

12/1/2020 Deena Khamees, MD

A pandemic has introduced the house of medicine to unprecedented numbers of hiring freezes, suspended bonuses, and scaled-back continuing medical education funds and stipends. Add to that looming cuts

Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know President-Elect Angela Cai, MD, MBA

12/1/2020 Angela Cai, MD, MBA

The EMRA Representative Council chose Angela Cai, MD, MBA, as EMRA President-elect in October. Get to know Dr. Cai.

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Cardiology

Critical Care Alert: ECMO Facilitated CPR for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation - The ARREST Trial

12/1/2020 Jonathan Pickos, DO , Sean M. Hickey, MD

What is possible with highly coordinated ECMO-facilitated cardiopulmonary resuscitation? A recent study demonstrates the value of exploring interesting alternatives such as ECMO cannulation in the eme

Infectious Disease

Lefamulin: Potential Role of a New Antibiotic in Community Acquired Pneumonia

12/1/2020 Mortatha Al-Bassam, MD , Vir Singh, MD, MBS , Bobby Desai, MD , Latha Ganti, MD, FACEP

A novel antibiotic that may play a role in ED management of community acquired pneumonia is lefamulin. What is this medication? How could it fit in the ED paradigm for pneumonia treatment?

Heart of EM , COVID-19 , Wellness

Heart of EM: I Answered

12/1/2020 Sharland Johnson, MD

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the hospital bursting at the seams and patients growing sicker and sicker as they edged toward a lonely death, I answered.

Leadership , EMRA Board of Directors

Get to Know Ashley Tarchione, MD, Vice Speaker of the Council

12/1/2020 Ashley Tarchione, MD

Do you know who leads the EMRA Representative Council, which sets priorities and directions for the association? Meet your newest Vice Speaker of the Council, Ashley Tarchione.

Airway , Research

Updates in the Airway

12/1/2020 Cameron Upchurch, MD , Joshua Kornegay, MD

The year of 2019 ushered in an abundance of interesting, practice-informing, and excellently conducted research regarding airway and peri-intubation management that is potentially applicable to the em

Neurology , Pediatric EM

MRI Confirmed Bell's Palsy Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Involvement

12/1/2020 Gabrielle Ransford, MD , Vipin Philip, MD , Joel M. Clingenpeel, MD, MPH, FACEP

Bell's palsy, also called idiopathic facial nerve palsy, is the paralysis of facial motor function without an identifiable cause. It typically presents with sudden onset unilateral facial paralysis an

EMS , Consults , Medical Education

The Physician's Role in Providing EMS Feedback

12/1/2020 Courtney Shay, MD

As resident doctors, we are tasked with leading resuscitations, explaining our thought processes, and debriefing our team. All too often our pre-hospital peers are forgotten members of this team. We m

Browsing: Topics

Get to Know Your President: RJ Sontag, MD

8 Tips to Finding a Job During a Global Pandemic

Get to Know President-Elect Angela Cai, MD, MBA

Critical Care Alert: ECMO Facilitated CPR for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation - The ARREST Trial

Lefamulin: Potential Role of a New Antibiotic in Community Acquired Pneumonia

Heart of EM: I Answered

Get to Know Ashley Tarchione, MD, Vice Speaker of the Council

Updates in the Airway

MRI Confirmed Bell's Palsy Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Involvement

The Physician's Role in Providing EMS Feedback

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