Browsing: Topics

Health Policy

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA

6/6/2017 Christopher Parks, MD

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA MACRA is going to bring about change whether providers are ready for it or not. The process in which health care providers and hospitals are re

Editorial , Wellness , Compassion Fatigue

The Crucible of Medicine: Reflections on Becoming a Doctor

6/6/2017 Debra Ravert, MD

The Crucible of Medicine: Reflections on Becoming a Doctor I entered the third year of medical school with great excitement. I was finally out of the classroom and seeing real patients, connecting w

EMPower

Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP

6/6/2017 EM Resident

Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP Name/credentials: Angela Siler Fisher, MD, FACEP; @afishermd @TeamMaveRx Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Residency: Christiana Care Health

Health Policy Journal Club

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price

6/6/2017 Elizabeth Sherrill, MD

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price Every 1% increase in uninsured leads to a $20 increase in ER bills for privately insured. "When someone without health coverage gets urgent—often expensive—medi

Hematology

Blood Transfusion Reactions: TACO, TRALI, and Other Considerations

6/5/2017 Joseph R. Giles, MD , Gary F. Pollock, MD, FACEP

Blood Transfusion Reactions: TACO, TRALI, and Other Considerations A 67-year-old woman with no known medical problems presents to the emergency department (ED) with severe anemia identified by her pr

Critical Care

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You

6/5/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Clark Owyang, MD

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You All these factors coalesce in the trauma bay to create a downward spiral of shock where life-saving interventions wrestle with each other as the patient

Critical Care , Cardiology

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib?

6/5/2017 Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib? Proposed theories as to why DD may be efficacious include the delivery of more energy to overcome the defibrillation threshold as well as

Critical Care

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV

6/5/2017 Julie Dodson, MD , Jeffrey Goodloe, MD, NREMT-P, FACEP , Chance Dodson, MSII , Boyd Burns, DO, MBA, MHA, FACEP

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV It is important for the emergency physician to be comfortable directing and troubleshooting NIPPV in order to promote optimal patient outcomes. Paramedics

Disaster Medicine , Sepsis

Preshospital Sepsis Alerts: A Stemi or Stroke Equivalent?

6/5/2017 Michael Spigner, MD, EMT-CC , Alanna O'Connell, DO

Preshospital Sepsis Alerts: A Stemi or Stroke Equivalent? “This is Medic 19 bringing in a Sepsis Alert, ETA 5 min.” With that alert, you mobilize your team and prepare for the patient. When they arr

Infectious Disease

Top 10 Zika Facts for Emergency Physicians

6/5/2017 Francesco Adami

Top 10 Zika Facts for Emergency Physicians Zika has gained worldwide attention as an emerging virus, especially with regard to dangerous complications affecting the unborn. In an increasingly interco