Browsing: June 2019

Medical Student Council , Medical Students , Advising , Match , Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Jessica L. Smith, MD | Brown University's Emergency Medicine Residency Program

6/24/2019 Peter Mattson

This month our Program Director Interview Series turns to the Northeast. We spoke with Jessica L. Smith, MD, FACEP, Program Director of Brown University’s EM residency, about the opportunities availab

Medical Student Council , Medical Students , Advising , Match , Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Michele L. Dorfsman, MD | University Of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Residency Program

6/24/2019 Samuel Southgate, MD, MA

This month our Program Director Interview Series turns to the Northeast. We spoke with Dr. Michele L. Dorfsman, Program Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s EM residency, about what makes Pitt’s

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Measuring Lactate vs. Capillary Refill in Guiding Resuscitation in Shock: Is there a difference?

6/11/2019 Bryan Beattie, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

When trying to resuscitate patients with septic shock, which offers better guidance for intervention: measuring capillary refill or trending lactate levels? The Andromeda SHOCK trial studied patients

Non Clinical

News and Notes: June-July 2019

6/10/2019

EMRA is focusing on new benefits, new ways to shine a spotlight on EM rock stars, and deadlines coming up this summer.

Health Care Administration

Physician-Led Health Care

6/10/2019 Hisham Valiuddin, DO , Hope Ring, MD

Among U.S. hospitals, the proportion of leadership roles occupied by medically trained professionals is decreasing. But it's important to have physicians in administration - so it's important for resi

Airway

Fixing a Cuff Leak: Learning to Improvise with Airway Problems

6/10/2019 Michael Lauria, MD, NRP, FP-C , Tatsuya Norii, MD, FACEP , Codruta Soneru, MD

Cuff defects top the list of structural causes of air leak from endotracheal tubes. Being able to troubleshoot the problem without changing the ETT decreases risk to the patient and saves valuable tim

Airway , Pediatric EM

Difficult to Ventilate and Oxygenate: The Pediatric Airway Overview

6/10/2019 Zaza Atanelov, MD, MPH , Gwen Hooley, MD , Sylvia E. Garcia, MD

Critically ill pediatric patients can make physicians-in-training nervous - and that anxiety is heightened when it comes to a pediatric patient in respiratory distress. This article reviews the basics

Toxicology

Don't Get Burned by Hydrofluoric Acid Toxicity

6/10/2019 Nancy A. Rice, MD, MS , Spencer Greene, MD, MS, FACEP, FACMT

Hydrofluoric acid is found in a variety of products and used in multiple industries, so exposure, while not exceedingly common, is not rare. Know how to treat HF toxicity and prevent contamination amo

Infectious Disease

You Can't Spell Fluoroquinolones without N-O

6/10/2019 Sajid Khan, MD , Maryam Arshad, MD

Once routinely prescribed for a variety of infections, fluoroquinolones have been shown to increase the likelihood of a host of negative effects and are now used sparingly. Do you know the 3 condition