Browsing: August 2014

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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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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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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
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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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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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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Leadership and Advocacy Conference , Advocacy

Lobbying with ACEP: Health Policy from LAC14

8/15/2014 Ronnie Ren , Archana Shah
Lobbying with ACEP: Health Policy from LAC14 Each May, emergency physicians from across the country converge in Washington, D.C. at ACEP's Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) to advocate for iss
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EMRA , Leadership Reports , President's Message , ACEP Scientific Assembly

EMRA Prepares to Blow into the Windy City

8/15/2014 Jordan Celeste, MD
EMRA Prepares to Blow into the Windy City Every autumn, EMRA gears up for its biggest meeting of the year, held in conjunction with ACEP's Scientific Assembly. This year for ACEP14, our destination l
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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