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Backboards: Do They Really Have Your Back? Spinal immobilization has long been considered standard practice for pre-hospital trauma patients. Placing patients on long spinal boards is one of the most
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Practical Tips: When and How to Use a Femoral Nerve Block An 82-year-old female shows up  in your ED with severe hip pain    after a fall at home. You already know what the x-ray is before you see it
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What EMS Teaches Us “I'm scared.” The young woman was tearful. These were the words of a patient from our first call of the day, a woman from the local jail with a possible miscarriage. She had had
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Outside the ED: How EMS can Improve Your Emergency Medicine Residency Pre-hospital medicine offers unique opportunities to an EM physician, and EMS training complements the emergency medicine curric
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Management of Hypothermia from Wilderness to the ED Wilderness medicine entails the treatment of exposure-related maladies in the middle of nowhere. Well, not always. While this blossoming field of e
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A Guide to International Emergency Medicine Fellowships Finding Your Niche in the World There are over 30 International Emergency Medicine (IEM) fellowship programs, with more being added every year.
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Council of Review Committee Residents Meeting It's been a busy beginning to 2014. The week after our EMRA Board of Directors retreat for strategic planning, I traveled to Chicago for the biannual Cou
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The Times They are A'Changing The world of emergency medicine education has been inundated by talk of competency-based assessments. As you may have noticed, the Milestones have arrived, and they've b
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Osteopathic EM: Two Roads, One Destination The Changing Training Landscape In February 2014, after months of discussion, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Accreditation Council for G
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A Brief Review of Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure A 56-year-old male with a history of end stage COPD, sarcoidosis, and pulmonary hypertension comes into your ED in respiratory failure. His initial o