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Practice Environments , Community

Resident on the Reservation: A Month with the Indian Health Service

8/14/2017 Michael Butterfield, MD, MS, MPH, RDMS

Resident on the Reservation: A Month with the Indian Health Service Tuba City is an unincorporated town baked into the high desert of northern Arizona. With a population of 9,000, it is a major cente

Practice Environments , International EM

Central Line Training in a Resource-Limited Environment

8/14/2017 Torben K. Becker, MD, PhD , Moneer Abdo, MD

Central Line Training in a Resource-Limited Environment Medical residents in the United States have the opportunity to learn and practice procedures on simulators before ever attempting them on a rea

Clinical , Palliative Care

Sides of the Same Coin: Dispelling Myths About Palliative Care in the ED

8/14/2017 Allison Chan, DO

Sides of the Same Coin: Dispelling Myths About Palliative Care in the ED Emergency Medicine (EM) and Hospice/Palliative Medicine (HPM) are often viewed as two medical specialties on opposite sides of

Recreational Drugs , Toxicology

Tripping off Trumpets: Diagnosis and Management of Jimson Weed Toxicity

8/14/2017 Henrik Galust, MD

Tripping off Trumpets: Diagnosis and Management of Jimson Weed Toxicity A 16-year-old male is brought to the emergency department for confusion and hallucinations for the past hour. Two hours prior t

Editorial

Saber Tooth Tigers: Tactical Thinking in Emergency Medicine

8/14/2017 Matthew Huberty, MD

Saber Tooth Tigers: Tactical Thinking in Emergency Medicine The double doors leading to the emergency department opened and I was greeted by a large, startling Ice Age animal that opened its menacing

Editorial , Wellness , Compassion Fatigue

Obsidian

8/9/2017 Bart Paull, MD

Obsidian The pager goes off”¦ trauma activation. SICU and I'm on call. I make my way to the ED. My fellow resident is there, doing the lateral canthotomy, ET tube's in. It's bad — auto vs. pedestrian

Wilderness Medicine

Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED

8/9/2017 Kayvon Izadpanah, MD , Amita Sudhir, MD

Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED An 11-year-old boy presents to the emergency department. While fishing, he was startled by a dog. He began to run away but tripped, land

Pediatric EM

Pediatric Drowning: In Over Your Head

8/9/2017 Nancy Nguyen, DO , Lyncean Ung, DO , Jijoe Joseph, DO, MBA , Dean Olsen, DO

Pediatric Drowning: In Over Your Head The sudden and unexpected death of a child is especially tragic when it is preventable, which is oftentimes the case with drowning. There have been multiple term

Wilderness Medicine

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness

8/9/2017 Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM , Charles Duke, MD, PhD

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness Improvised medicine might be viewed as a skill reserved for the wilderness — for the people who can whittle an entire trauma bay out of a few sticks.

Legislation , Health Policy

Affordable Care Act vs. American Health Care Act

8/9/2017 Nathan Vafaie, MD

Affordable Care Act vs. American Health Care Act A Comparison of Central Principles The elections of November 2016, which left the Republican Party in control of Congress and the Executive Branch, ha