President's Message , Leadership

20,000 Reasons to Serve

10/6/2021 RJ Sontag, MD

Autumn is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and to consider what we are thankful for. Looking back on my term as EMRA’s president, I can think of about 20,000 reasons to be thankful.

Editor's Forum , Wellness , COVID-19

Stages of Success

10/6/2021 Priyanka Lauber, DO

What is culture, especially organizational culture? More important: How can a single individual affect the culture of an entire group? These 5 stages of success shed some light on that question.

Awards , Award Winners

Excellence in EM: Honoring EMRA's Awards Recipients

10/6/2021

EMRA strives to help you be the best doctor and leader you can be, helping to make emergency medicine the best specialty it can be. These outstanding physicians and trainees have gone an extra mile -

Critical Care , Ultrasound , Critical Care Ultrasound

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Augmenting the Physical Exam with Ultrasound Findings in Cardiac Tamponade

10/5/2021 Taylor Miller, MD , Alexis Salerno, MD, FACEP , Dustin Slagle, MD

Cardiac tamponade is a critical emergency department diagnosis, but it can be a difficult diagnosis to make based on physical exam alone. Clinical signs of tamponade are often late findings and can be

Deep Dive in CritCare , Critical Care

Deep Dive into the Evidence: Anaphylaxis

10/5/2021 Ying Ku , Megan Hoffer, DO , Brian Sumner, MD

Anaphylaxis is a severe life-threatening acute systemic type 1 hypersensitivity reaction. This IgE-mediated reaction leads to varying degrees of mast-cell degranulation, histamine release and varying

Critical Care , Ultrasound , Critical Care Ultrasound

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion: Finding Pulmonary Embolism Before the Crash

10/5/2021 Dustin Slagle, MD , Ashley Panicker, MD, FACEP , Taylor Miller, MD , Keerthi Gondy, MD

Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) can provide a point of care ultrasound assessment of right ventricular function. Although there are many emerging applications for this measurement,

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Milrinone vs. Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock

10/4/2021 Evan McMurray, MD , Erik Sherman, MD , Brian Sumner, MD

Managing critically ill patients with cardiogenic shock often includes a decision between two inotropes: dobutamine and milrinone. Is there evidence to inform that choice?

Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: High-Dose Nitroglycerin Bolus for Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema

10/4/2021 Michael Franczak, MD , Daniel Freeman, MD , Brian Sumner, MD

What's the feasibility and safety of giving a high-dose nitroglycerin bolus for sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary edema?

Program Director Interviews , Match , Medical Students

Program Director Interview Series: Elaine Rabin, MD | EM Residency Program Director at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY

9/21/2021 Jessica Andre-Todd, MD

In this month’s addition to the Program Director Interview Series we got to chat with Elaine Rabin, MD to learn about the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , Health Care Administration , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Cheaper Isn't Always Better

9/6/2021 Michael J. Rushton Jr., DO , Vidya Eswaran, MD

Urgent care centers fill a need in the U.S. healthcare system, providing access to care. But as the Health Policy Journal Club explains, this step in the right direction must be supported by appropria

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