Browsing: Wellness

Financial , Personal , Career Planning , Resident

EMRA Resident Forum and ACEP15: Make the Most of It!

10/8/2015 M. Shayne Ruffing, CLU, ChFC, AEP

EMRA Resident Forum and ACEP15: Make the Most of It! It happens in late fall and accelerates into spring: Graduating residents start to stress about the move into practice. Not the medical or profess

Clinical , Pediatric EM , Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal

Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children

10/8/2015 EM Resident

Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children From the April 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Apparent Life-Threatening Events In Children: Practical Evaluation And Management.”

Clinical , Infectious Disease , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus

10/8/2015 EM Resident

Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus From the May 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Emergency Department Management of Mosquito-Borne Illness: Malaria, Dengue, and

Risk Management Pitfalls , Pain Management , Clinical , Medico Legal

Pain Management in the Emergency Department

8/5/2015 EM Resident

Pain Management in the Emergency Department From the August 2012 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “An Evidence-Based Approach to Traumatic Pain Management in the Emergency Department.” Reprinte

Clinical , Pediatric EM , OB/GYN , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Pediatric Ovarian Torsion

8/5/2015 EM Resident

Pediatric Ovarian Torsion From the July 2012 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosing and Managing Ovarian and Adnexal Torsion in Children.” Reprinted with permission. To access y

Cardiology , Pain Management , Medico Legal

Chest Pain and Answers

8/4/2015 Farzon Nahvi, MD

Chest Pain and Answers It started about an hour ago,” he stammered. Sweating profusely and taking deep, splinted breaths between sentences, he described a great chest pain story. “Yeah, I'd say it's

Editor's Forum , Editorial , Wellness

The Level One Commitment

8/1/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD

The Level One Commitment I'm writing this article inside a tent. Lying on my thinning mattress pad, I can occasionally feel a refreshingly cool and crisp mountain breeze seep in through my partially

Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal , Clinical , Critical Care , Shock

Diagnosing and Managing Shock

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Diagnosing and Managing Shock From the March 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosis and Management of Shock in the Emergency Department.” Reprinted with permission. To access your EMRA

Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls , Clinical , Pediatric EM

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants From the March 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “A Systematic Approach to the Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants i

Ethics , Medical Students , International EM

Ethical Dilemmas During the Global Health Elective

6/13/2015 Anand Selvam, MD

Ethical Dilemmas During the Global Health Elective The Other Side of the Looking Glass The blood will not stop flowing. Marked with many of the sequelae of late-stage AIDS, my 19-year-old HIV-positiv