Browsing: August 2022

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Cardiology , Airway

Critical Care Alert: PREPARE II - A Randomized Clinical Trial

8/22/2022 Taylor Miller, MD , Evan McMurray, MD
Critical Care Alert: The PREPARE II trial investigated whether a fluid bolus would impact cardiovascular collapse in critically ill patients undergoing intubation.
Match , Medical Students , Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Christopher Freeman, MD | EM Residency Program Director at The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program

8/17/2022 Shilpi Ganguly, MSIV
In this month’s addition to the Program Director Interview Series we got to chat with Christopher Freeman, MD to learn about the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Emergency Medicine Residency
Critical Care , Critical Care Alert , Trauma , Shock

Critical Care Alert: ETCO2 as a Predictor of Patient Outcomes

8/15/2022 Brittney I. Gordon, MD , Mustafa Rasheed, MD , Taylor Miller, MD
Critical Care Alert: The triage of patients in the trauma bay is difficult, and no single measurement or vital sign will provide sufficient information for mortality. This study indicates ETCO2 - a co
Geriatrics , Pain Management , Palliative Care

Initiating End-of-Life Care From the ED

8/10/2022 Matthew B. Walton, MD , Eric Melnychuk, DO
Compassion and a focus on comfort are keys when delivering end-of-life care in the ED.
Patient Interactions

Orthostatic Vital Signs: Have They Fallen Out of Favor?

8/10/2022 E. Daxton Spencer, DO, MS, RN , Lindsay Davis, DO, MPH, NRP
Just as there are two sides to every coin, some medical literature supports taking patients’ orthostatic vitals when they present to the ED with syncope, lightheadedness, and vertigo; other literature
Op-Ed

One Health and Climate Change: Why EM Physicians Should Pay Attention

8/10/2022 Alison Neely , Kyle Denison Martin, DO, MPH
As emergency physicians, it is imperative to understand how environmental factors affect our practice of medicine. Climate change and its effects can feel daunting and out of our control; however, we
Wellness , Op-Ed , Legislation

Dr. Lorna Breen Act: One Step in the Right Direction for Physician Wellness

8/10/2022 Leyanet Gonzalez, MD, MBA , Nicholas Melucci, MPH , Leena Owen, DO
Although burnout and mental health challenges can be driven by a multitude of diverse triggers, this crisis among healthcare providers needs to be assessed on various organizational levels to develop
Infectious Disease , Neurology

West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis: An Unnerving Re-emerging Disease on the Rise

8/10/2022 Patrick H. Mullett, MD , Ryan Brzycki, DO
It is important to consider West Nile Virus as a major cause of neuroinvasive disease and acute flaccid paralysis. If a febrile, altered patient comes into the ED with focal neurological deficits, it
Awards , Award Winners

Excellence in EM: Honoring EMRA's Awards Recipients

8/10/2022
EMRA strives to help you be the best doctor and leader you can be, helping to make emergency medicine the best specialty it can be. These outstanding physicians and trainees have gone an extra mile -
Infectious Disease , Pediatric EM

"Feline" Feverish: A Case Report

8/10/2022 Shanice Latham, MD, MPH , Hussain Shakir, MD, FAAP
Behind typhoid fever and urinary tract infections, cat-scratch disease is the third most common cause of fever of unknown origin in pediatric patients. CSD should be high on the diagnostic radar whene