Browsing: April 2017

Interviewing , Match , Advising , Med Student

EMRA Medical Students: Senior Interviews

4/28/2017 Morgan Bobb

EMRA Medical Students: Senior Interviews After another successful application cycle, we sat down with some of the outgoing EMRA Medical Student Council seniors to find out a bit more about their over

Cardiology

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes

4/28/2017 Ryan Joseph, DO, DTM&H , Lee Wood, DO

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes The heart is an incredible organ. The average American's heart will beat nearly 2.5 billion times over the course of a lifetime.1 But eventual

Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - April 2017

4/12/2017

ECG Challenge - April 2017 Case. A middle-aged male with unknown medical history is brought to the emergency department after being found outside on the streets of New York City in February smelling

Awards , Award Winners

Round of Applause for Our 2017 Spring Awards Recipients!

4/11/2017 EM Resident

Round of Applause for Our 2017 Spring Awards Recipients! Please join EMRA in congratulating our 2017 Spring Awards recipients. Your contributions are already making a difference to the specialty! Spe

Orthopedics , Sports Medicine

Boxer's Break: Metacarpal Fractures

4/11/2017 R. Ian Ross, MD , Ibbad Yousuf , Albert Leung, MD

Boxer's Break: Metacarpal Fractures A 21-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with pain and swelling in his left hand several hours after an injury that occurred while playing foot

Pain Management , Critical Care

Pain Management in Vaso-occlusive Sickle Cell Crisis

4/11/2017 Amani Mahdi, MD, MBBS

Pain Management in Vaso-occlusive Sickle Cell Crisis Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic blood disorder in the United States, affecting an estimated 100,000 persons.1 Vaso-occlusive

Health Policy Journal Club

Health Policy Journal Club: Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid

4/5/2017 Vidya Eswaran, MD

Health Policy Journal Club: Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid Orthopedic appointment availability 5 times higher for uninsured than for Medicaid Increase outpatient services and thereby decre

Research , Rapid Research Review , Advancement of EM

Rapid Research Review: Data Sets and Summary Indexes

4/2/2017 EM Resident

Rapid Research Review: Data Sets and Summary Indexes Olga Kovalerchik, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, EMRA Research Committee, Vice-Chair, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT You've just finishe

Cardiology

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly

4/2/2017 Noah White, MD, FACEP , Gregory Wu, MD , Christopher Hanowitz, MD

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly A 63-year-old male is brought in by EMS after having a witnessed cardiac arrest while at work. Bystander CPR was started immediatel

Orthopedics

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain

4/2/2017 Danya Khoujah, MD , Ahmed Al Hazmi, MD, MBBS

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain Low back pain (LBP) is one of the top 5 chief complaints among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED), making it an imp