Browsing: February 2015

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Informatics , Career Planning

Subspecialty Training in Clinical Informatics

2/15/2015 Michael C. Bond, MD, FACEP, FAAEM , Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP , Daniel L. Lemkin, MD, MS, FACEP
Subspecialty Training in Clinical Informatics Clinical informatics is a new medical subspecialty that focuses on medical data, clinical processes, and computational systems applied to the practice of
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Clinical , Urology , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Acute Urinary Retention in the Emergency Department

2/15/2015 EM Resident
Acute Urinary Retention in the Emergency Department From the January 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “An Evidence-Based Approach To The Emergency Department Management of Acute Urinary Ret
Clinical , Critical Care

Unconventional Embolisms

2/15/2015 Kevin Davey, MD
Unconventional Embolisms Case. A 26-year-old female presents to your ED with four days of fever, shortness of breath (SOB), cough, and substernal chest pain.  In two previous visits over the same tim
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Clinical , Pediatric EM , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Pediatric Herpes Simplex Virus Infections

2/15/2015 EM Resident
Pediatric Herpes Simplex Virus Infections From the January 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Pediatric Herpes Simplex Virus Infections: An Evidence-Based Approach To Treatment.”
Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Lesions

2/15/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD
Lesions THE CASES Case 1. The Patient A 15-year-old female presents to the ED for the fourth time in three weeks because of low-grade fever, malaise, and chest pain. Over the past day she developed a
Clinical , Wilderness Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Races

2/15/2015 Leah Feazel, MD , Jason Block, MD
Wilderness Medicine Races “On your mark, get set, go!” My five teammates and I charge up the snow-blanketed hill, venturing into the dense timber of the state park. Armed with our essential survival
Board Review , Questions

Board Review Questions: February 2015

2/15/2015 EM Resident
Board Review Questions: February 2015 Provided by PEER VIII. PEER (Physician's Evaluation and Educational Review in Emergency Medicine) is ACEP's gold standard in self-assessment and educational revi
Clinical , Toxicology

Uncomfortably Numb: Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity and Treatment

2/14/2015 Ryan Surmaitis, DO
Uncomfortably Numb: Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity and Treatment Case Scenario You are in the middle of a busy shift when you receive a pre-hospital call that EMS is 15 minutes out with an active
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EMRA , Leadership Reports , President's Message

The Future of EMRA

2/14/2015 Matt Rudy, MD
The Future of EMRA “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Both baseball legend Yogi Berra and Nobel laureate Neils Bohr are credited with versions of this saying. Regardless of
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Editor's Forum , Editorial

The Why, and the What's Next

2/14/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD
The Why, and the What's Next I'm on the four-year plan. Four years of high school was followed by four years of college. This was followed by four years of medical school, and then four years of resi