Browsing: August 2014

Awards , Award Winners

2014 CPC Semi-Final Competition Winners

8/21/2014 EM Resident
2014 CPC Semi-Final Competition Winners Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 National Emergency Medicine Clinical Pathologic Case Presentation (CPC) Semi-Final Competition, sponsored by ACEP, C
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Leadership Reports , ACGME RC-EM

Inteviews: RRC Committee Leaders

8/21/2014 Brandon Allen, MD
Inteviews: RRC Committee Leaders I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Drs. Wallace Carter, chair, and Philip Shayne, vice chair, of the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for emergency medic
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EMPower

Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP

8/21/2014 EM Resident
Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP Dr. Klauer earned his medical degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Science in 1992, and a law degree from Concord Law School in 2011, where he wa
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Pain Management , Pediatric EM , Risk Management Pitfalls

Pediatric Nerve Blocks

8/21/2014 EM Resident
Pediatric Nerve Blocks From the October 2013 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Pediatric Nerve Blocks: An Evidence-Based Approach.” Reprinted with permission. To access your EMRA memb
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Awards , Award Winners

EMRA 2014 Spring Award Recipients

8/21/2014 EM Resident
EMRA 2014 Spring Award Recipients Congratulations to EMRA's Deserving Winners! Top row from left Outgoing EMRA Board Member: former MSGC chair, Zach Jarou, MD, Michigan State University; Research Gra
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Risk Management Pitfalls

Novel Oral Anticoagulant Agents

8/21/2014 EM Resident
Novel Oral Anticoagulant Agents From the October 2013 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Emergency Department Management of Patients on Novel Oral Anticoagulant Agents.” Reprinted with
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Infectious Disease , Urology

Rotting Away: Fournier's Gangrene

8/15/2014 EM Resident
Rotting Away: Fournier's Gangrene Matthew Mitchell, MD, Resident, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI Case An 83-year-old male is dropped off by his caregiver with a chief complaint of shortness of
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Editorial , Wellness , Personal , Workplace

New Doctors, New Choices: The Delicate Work/Life Balance

8/15/2014 EM Resident
New Doctors, New Choices: The Delicate Work/Life Balance Tim Murphy, MSIV, University of Connecticut , School of Medicine, Farmington, CT During my third-year rotations, I was frequently regaled with
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Editorial , Wellness

Baseballs, Einstein and EM

8/15/2014
Baseballs, Einstein and EM Matthew T. Huberty, MSIV, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN If you've worked an ED shift lately, perhaps you've noticed how physics plays an important role in emergency me
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Guided Procedures , Infectious Disease

Small Spaces: Ultrasound-Guided Small Joint Aspiration

8/15/2014 EM Resident
Small Spaces: Ultrasound-Guided Small Joint Aspiration Meredith Hill-Ciesielski, MD, Ultrasound Fellow, Detroit Receiving and Sinai Grace Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Mark Favot, MD,