Browsing: COVID-19

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Wilderness Medicine , COVID-19 , Wellness

Recreate Responsibly: Exploring the Wilderness in the Age of COVID

2/4/2021 Kathryn Kammert, DO , Capt. Yev Maksimenko, MD, MA, DiMM, FAWM, FP-C , Michelle Skuba-Gray , Elaine Yu, DO, MS, FAWM
How can you safely get outdoors? What do you need to plan to stay safe? How can you spend time in the wilderness responsibly? What impact can you have on the health of our planet and its future after
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President's Message , Job Search , COVID-19

Defending COVID-19's Latest Victims

2/4/2021 RJ Sontag, MD
As the U.S. struggles to flatten the ever-rising curve of COVID-19, the virus has revealed a new weakness in the health care system. Despite putting their own health at risk to treat victims of the pa
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Wellness , Workplace , COVID-19

Why Doctors Can't Get the Help They Need

2/4/2021 Evelyn Huang, MD
Imagine you have a patient who reports symptoms of depression. After ruling out other causes, you turn to treatment that addresses their mental health and any underlying psychiatric illness - but you
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Wellness , COVID-19

The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves: I Am Not Stressed

2/4/2021 Lauren Fisher, MD
Physician suicide was already double the national average pre-COVID. Before social isolation, before PPE fatigue, before our jobs became even harder. One of the biggest problems with stress is that we
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ECG Challenge , Cardiology , COVID-19

ECG Challenge: February-March 2021

2/3/2021 Elizabeth Shanahan, MD , Jeremy Berberian, MD
A 48-year-old male with a past medical history of asthma and recent positive COVID-19 test presents to the ED with acute onset of palpitations and chest pressure followed by a brief syncopal episode.
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Editor's Forum , Wellness , COVID-19

New Vaccines: Feat of Medicine

2/3/2021 Priyanka Lauber, DO
There has never been a time when a novel virus that ravaged the world was sequenced, studied, and understood down to its genetic makeup so quickly in the entire span of humanity's existence.
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COVID-19 , Social EM

EM Docs in the Streets: A Call for Community Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

1/6/2021 Spencer Kerl, DO , Justin Pile, DO , Nick Kulas, DO , Patrick Boyle, DO
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted EM residents from Chicago's Swedish Hospital to reach out to their community, visiting local businesses to help educate and protect citizens.
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COVID-19 , Simulation , Medical Education

Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Weekly Multidisciplinary Simulation Education

12/17/2020 Shehni Nadeem, MD , David Szafron, MD , Daniel Chu, MD , Yusuf Ansari
Thrust into a pandemic unlike any other, health professionals today must continually adapt. Protocols change at dizzying rates, while the physical and mental demands of our jobs increase exponentially
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: Drivers of Disparities in COVID-19

12/6/2020 Daniel Brownstein , Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire country, but early data suggest its effects have been particularly devastating on Black and Latino communities.
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Career Planning , COVID-19 , Workplace

8 Tips to Finding a Job During a Global Pandemic

12/1/2020 Deena Khamees, MD
A pandemic has introduced the house of medicine to unprecedented numbers of hiring freezes, suspended bonuses, and scaled-back continuing medical education funds and stipends. Add to that looming cuts

#FOAMed and External Sources

COVID Vaccine & Variants

FOAMcast 01/26/2021

Covid Therapeutics Update

ACEP Now 04/11/2022

Performance of three screening tools to predict COVID-19 positivity in emergency department patients

Emergency Medicine Journal current issue 02/23/2023

Predictors and outcomes of delirium in the emergency department during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Milan

Emergency Medicine Journal current issue 02/23/2023
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