Browsing: October 2022

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Critical Care Ultrasound , Ultrasound , Critical Care , Cardiology

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: The 60/60 Sign, Let's Be Specific

10/24/2022 Dustin Slagle, MD , Parth S. Gandhi, DO , Ashley Panicker, MD, FACEP
The 60/60 sign is an ultrasound finding that can help increase specificity in diagnosing right ventricular dysfunction in the setting of an acute pulmonary embolism.
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Critical Care Devices , Surgical Airway , Critical Care

Critical Care Device Series: Tracheostomy Complications and Troubleshooting in the ED

10/24/2022 Evan McMurray, MD , Brendan Innes, MD , Taylor Miller, MD
Tracheostomies are a common surgical procedure for long-term airway management that involves creating a permanent connection between the anterior neck and trachea. Complications occur in up to 50% of

News & Notes in Emergency Medicine

10/10/2022
News & Notes in Emergency Medicine
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Editor's Forum

Innovating for the Future

10/10/2022 Jessica Adkins Murphy, MD
Emergency medicine is a highly nimble specialty, and advancements have come very quickly over the past 50 years. But this is not a fact we can take for granted indefinitely. Being good stewards of EM’
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EMbark , Residents , Life Transitions - Residents , Career Planning

As You Near the End of Residency, Have a Roadmap for the Future

10/10/2022 Priscilla Chao, MD , Rushabh Shah, MD, MBA , John Riggins, MD , Angela Cai, MD, MBA
You’re in your final year of residency, and the light at the end of the residency tunnel is inching closer and closer. You’ve traveled long and far on a road with twists and turns and bumps and dips a
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Committee , Space Medicine , Fellowships , EMbark , Residents

The Final Frontier for EM: An Inside Look at UCLA’s Space Medicine Fellowship Program

10/10/2022 Sriram Venkatesan, FAWM , Kyle Essex, NRP, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT
Future physician-astronauts, here’s a new opportunity that’s right up your alley — UCLA’s Space Medicine Fellowship. EMRA’s Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Committee gets a first-hand look with the
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Ophthalmology

BRAO and CRAO: Quick Diagnosis, Management Lead to Better Outcomes in Retinal Artery Occlusion

10/10/2022 Joshua McGough, MD, MS , William Hockett, MD , Armando Garcia, MD , Daryl Williams, MD
CRAO and BRAO are ocular emergencies mandating rapid diagnosis and management to prevent permanent loss of vision. Treatment options include ocular massage to attempt to relocate a lesion to a more pe
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Research

How To Make Your Survey Count

10/10/2022 Meredith Hurley, DO, MS
Surveys can be great research tools to obtain data when carefully designed and correctly administered. When writing a survey, consider the best method to administer it, take into account participant m
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Ophthalmology

Tearful from Topiramate: A Case of Bilateral Secondary Angle Closure Glaucoma

10/10/2022 Kalee Morris, DO, MS , Cynthia Oliva, MD
Managing acute angle closure glaucoma in the ED involves decreasing intraocular pressure caused by excess aqueous humor. Once the diagnosis is made, steps can be initiated to rapidly decrease the pres
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Op-Ed

Possessive Eponyms: Removing the Apostrophe from Medical Diagnoses

10/10/2022 Jessica Mason, MD , Whitney Johnson, MD , Stuart Swadron, MD
Medical eponyms like “Grave’s disease” and “Bell’s palsy” suggest, misleadingly, either a sense of ownership or perhaps a personal affliction of the individual named. Additionally, eponyms complicate