Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Melissa White, MD | EM Residency Program Director at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

9/24/2020 Alexa Peterson, DO, MS

In this month’s addition to the Program Director Interview Series we got to chat with Melissa White, MD to learn about the Emory Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

Airway , Clinical

Love Hurts: Rare Hypersensitivity Reaction in the Emergency Department

9/22/2020 Darren Cuthbert, MD, MPH , David Christopher Cuthbert, MD , Joshua Bucher, MD , James Karz, DO , Jaila Graham , Mohamed Olabi

Human seminal fluid hypersensitivity affects roughly 40,000 women in the U.S.

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , COVID-19

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients With Severe COVID-19. The REMAP-CAP COVID-19 Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial

9/21/2020 Brian Sumner, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

A complex trial meant to determine whether hydrocortisone can improve outcomes for patients with severe COVID-19 was stopped early - but still shows promise for the course.

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , COVID-19

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Dexamethasone on Days Alive and Ventilator-Free in Patients with Moderate or Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and COVID-19: The CoDEX Randomized Clinical Trial

9/21/2020 Taylor Miller, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

The CoDEX trial was conducted to identify the effect of dexamethasone on ventilator-free days in patients with COVID-19 associated ARDS.

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , COVID-19

Critical Care Alert: Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Meta-analysis

9/21/2020 Brian Sumner, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

With no clear consensus on the use of steroids in critically ill sepsis patients, a recent meta-analysis studies the 28-day mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients when corticosteroids are admin

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Emergency Medicine at the Forefront

9/6/2020 Nikkole Turgeon

Despite the dedication of emergency departments to serve anyone, anywhere, anytime, evidence shows unacceptable disparities in the emergency care for patients who are Black, indigenous, and people of

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock - The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial

9/3/2020 Brian Sumner, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

This study sheds more light on how the administration of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine might affect the rates of organ injury in patients suffering septic shock. The takeaway? It's not

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Program Director Interview Series: Michael W. Van Meter, MD | EM Residency Program Director at McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX

8/26/2020 Lenexa Morais

In this month’s interview for the Program Director Interview Series brings us down to Houston. We sat down to chat with Dr. Van Meter. We didn’t ask any hard-hitting questions about cowboy boots, bu

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Etomidate Use Is Associated with Less Hypotension Than Ketamine for Emergency Department Sepsis Intubations: A NEAR Cohort Study

8/26/2020 Brian Sumner, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

Intubating the critically ill septic patient is a high-risk procedure. We examine an observational study that reported higher levels of procedural hypotension with the use of ketamine when compared to

COVID-19 , Heart of EM

What Prickled Today?

8/18/2020 Smruti Desai, DO, MPH

They may have had full lives with love and care and food and jokes before the coronavirus laid claim to them. And though we cannot offer a cure, we offer all we can. Even when it's simply the comfort

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Program Director Interview Series: Melissa White, MD | EM Residency Program Director at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Love Hurts: Rare Hypersensitivity Reaction in the Emergency Department

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients With Severe COVID-19. The REMAP-CAP COVID-19 Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Dexamethasone on Days Alive and Ventilator-Free in Patients with Moderate or Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and COVID-19: The CoDEX Randomized Clinical Trial

Critical Care Alert: Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Meta-analysis

Health Policy Journal Club: Emergency Medicine at the Forefront

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock - The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial

Program Director Interview Series: Michael W. Van Meter, MD | EM Residency Program Director at McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX

Critical Care Alert: Etomidate Use Is Associated with Less Hypotension Than Ketamine for Emergency Department Sepsis Intubations: A NEAR Cohort Study

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