Browsing: April 2020

International EM

#MedMissionHacks

4/21/2020 Timothy Bikman, DO , Landon P. Wood, DO , Laura Forman, MD, FACEP

The global hyper-awareness from exposure to 24/7 news and social media has left many people wanting to get more involved in medical missions. How can you make the most of a medical mission?

Research , Rapid Research Review

Rapid Research Review: Decision Points - The P-Value

4/21/2020 Arvin Jeremy N. Tan, MD

Making sense of a data set is fundamental to our role, not only as scientists, but also as clinicians. A simple method exists that allows for a systematic manner to answer the key question in research

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Prevention of Early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia After Cardiac Arrest

4/21/2020 Sarah Ring, MD , Sean M. Hickey, MD

Can prophylactic antibiotics affect the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?

Managing Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

4/16/2020 Peter Brooks, DO , Martin D. Klinkhammer, MD, MPH, FACEP

A young woman presents with a 3-week history of fatigue, nausea, vomiting, heavy bleeding, and lightheadedness. Within hours she is intubated in the ICU. Follow the case management to understand an at

COVID-19 , Opinion-Editorial

I Am Glad You Are at Home. . .

4/16/2020 Jefferey S. Holoman, DO

Are you tired of sheltering in place during the coronavirus pandemic? Disgruntled with the same 4 walls and familiar faces that mark your experience with COVID-19? An emergency physician wants you to

COVID-19 , Wellness

Weathering the Storm: What Psychiatrists Want You to Know

4/13/2020 Jessi Gold, MD, MS , Margaret Duncan

Overwhelming volume and acuity, an alarming lack of PPE, the anguish of seeing your patients die alone, the jarring incongruence of layoffs and salary cuts - COVID-19 brings with it a major threat to

President's Message

President's Message: Protecting the Integrity of Residency Training

4/9/2020 Hannah R. Hughes, MD, MBA , Corey McNeilly,

Seemingly every social media outlet used by emergency medicine physicians-in-training blew up on Feb. 22 in response to a proposed non-physician emergency medicine "residency" training program at UNC.

Editor's Forum , Health Policy

Editor's Forum: Apathy Is Not Cool

4/9/2020 Priyanka Lauber, DO

EM Resident's Editor-in-Chief investigates: When did organizational medicine become a dirty word? When did getting involved in physician administration and advocacy become uncool?

Away Rotations , Medical Students , COVID-19

COVID-19 Quarantine Can't Contain Medical Student Creativity

4/7/2020 Matthew J. Christensen, MD, LT, MC, USN , Jazmyn Shaw

Since clerkships were disrupted by a global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, medical students got creative. Contributing to health care during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has taken many forms for those not yet at

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Until Medicaid Arrived, Nowhere Else to Turn

4/6/2020 Nardos Makonnen, MD

Why do patients seek emergency care? That key question can help frame the conversation about Medicaid expansion and ED volume.