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Toxicology

Don't Kid Around: SGLT-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Euglycemic DKA

6/5/2017 Sajid Khan, MD , Maryam Arshad, MD

Don't Kid Around: SGLT-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Euglycemic DKA A 62-year-old female presents with cough and generalized weakness for one day. She has no other symptoms and physical exam is unrem

Toxicology , Medications

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse

6/5/2017 Thomas del Ninno, MD , R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, FACEPP , Danya Khoujah, MD

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, resulting in a significant increase in overdose deaths.1 From 2000 to 2014, there was

Leadership Reports , ACGME RC-EM

ACGME Updates: New Programs, Resident Well-Being, Parental Leave

5/30/2017 Leonard Stallings, MD

ACGME Updates: New Programs, Resident Well-Being, Parental Leave The ACGME Review Committee for Emergency Medicine, charged with overseeing graduate medical education for the specialty, approved addi

Representative Council , Speaker Report

EMRA RepCo: Goes Digital

5/30/2017 Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH, FACEP

EMRA RepCo: Goes Digital If you attended SAEM17, you probably noticed some changes during the EMRA Representative Council Meeting. After seeing only about 30% of our organization's representatives at

President's Message , Career Planning

Wisdom in a Time of Change

5/30/2017 Alicia Kurtz, MD

Wisdom in a Time of Change It's hard to believe another academic year is coming to an end. Another crop of medical students who have struggled through the long Match process will finally start out as

Ventilator Management , Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Mechanical Ventilator Protocol

5/30/2017 Jonathan Jaffe, MD

Critical Care Alert: Mechanical Ventilator Protocol A Quasi-Experimental, Before-After Trial Examining the Impact of an Emergency Department Mechanical Ventilator Protocol on Clinical Outcomes and Lu

Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

5/30/2017 Abby Cosgrove, MD

Letter from the Editor There I was, driving giddily to the Social Security Administration office on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis. It was June 30, and I was a newlywed doctor (surely it was a mistake

Affordable Care Act , Health Policy

What You Need to Know About the AHCA

5/10/2017 Rachel Solnick, MD

What You Need to Know About the AHCA The U.S. House of Representatives on May 4 narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), HR 1628, after tabling the bill in March following a lack of party

Affordable Care Act , Health Policy , Advocacy , Health Policy Journal Club

ACA Increased Emergency Department Use

5/6/2017 Eric Maughan, MD

ACA Increased Emergency Department Use Increasing access to insurance alone does not lead to a decrease in ED visits As the Affordable Care Act was being implemented, many politicians and health po

Interviewing , Match , Advising , Med Student

EMRA Medical Students: Senior Interviews

4/28/2017 Morgan Bobb

EMRA Medical Students: Senior Interviews After another successful application cycle, we sat down with some of the outgoing EMRA Medical Student Council seniors to find out a bit more about their over