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Events & Activities , SAEM Academic Assembly , Leadership and Advocacy Conference

Spring Meeting Preview

4/30/2015 Anant Patel, DO

Spring Meeting Preview One of the strengths and one of the challenges of EMRA will always be its changing membership. Senior residents will soon be graduating and becoming attending physicians and a

Visual Diagnosis , Ophthalmology

Anisocoria

4/30/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD

Anisocoria CASES Case 1. The Patient A 61-year-old female complains of sudden onset right eye pain, headache, blurred vision, and vomiting 2 hours prior to coming to the ED. Physical examination reve

Clinical , Critical Care , Shock

Comparison of Dopamine and Norepinephrine in the Treatment of Shock

4/12/2015 Christina Chien, MD

Comparison of Dopamine and Norepinephrine in the Treatment of Shock This Critical Care Alert from EMRA's Critical Care Division did not appear in the print version of EM Resident Magazine. Learn more

Advising , Away Rotations , Medical Students , MSIII , MSIV

Advice for EM Applicants: Planning Your Fourth-Year Schedule

3/18/2015 Zach Jarou, MD , Stace Breland, DO , Michael Yip, MD , Jimmy Corbett-Detig, MSIV

Advice for EM Applicants: Planning Your Fourth-Year Schedule EM rotations: When, where, and how many? For third-year medical students planning to specialize in emergency medicine, preparing a fourth

Clinical , Urology , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Acute Urinary Retention in the Emergency Department

2/15/2015 EM Resident

Acute Urinary Retention in the Emergency Department From the January 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “An Evidence-Based Approach To The Emergency Department Management of Acute Urinary Ret

Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Lesions

2/15/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD

Lesions THE CASES Case 1. The Patient A 15-year-old female presents to the ED for the fourth time in three weeks because of low-grade fever, malaise, and chest pain. Over the past day she developed a

Clinical , Wilderness Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Races

2/15/2015 Leah Feazel, MD , Jason Block, MD

Wilderness Medicine Races “On your mark, get set, go!” My five teammates and I charge up the snow-blanketed hill, venturing into the dense timber of the state park. Armed with our essential survival

Informatics , Career Planning

Subspecialty Training in Clinical Informatics

2/15/2015 Michael C. Bond, MD, FACEP, FAAEM , Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP , Daniel L. Lemkin, MD, MS, FACEP

Subspecialty Training in Clinical Informatics Clinical informatics is a new medical subspecialty that focuses on medical data, clinical processes, and computational systems applied to the practice of

Clinical , Critical Care

Unconventional Embolisms

2/15/2015 Kevin Davey, MD

Unconventional Embolisms Case. A 26-year-old female presents to your ED with four days of fever, shortness of breath (SOB), cough, and substernal chest pain. In two previous visits over the same tim

Clinical , Pediatric EM , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Pediatric Herpes Simplex Virus Infections