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A Practical Guide to Diagnosing Delirium and Acute Cognitive Change in the ED
Terms such as “confusion,” “altered mental status,” or “not acting right,” are frequently used and invariably make their way into emergency department (ED) documentation. The terms are often used...
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“No Surprises” Insurer Tactics Reshape Emergency Medicine Reimbursement
A new RAND Corporation report, funded by the Emergency Medicine Policy Institute, confirms what many emergency physicians feel daily: payments are falling, administrative burdens are rising, and the No...
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Beyond Hypoxia: Other Causes of Low Pulse Oximetry
A 27-year-old woman presents with blue lips and fingers. She denies trauma, fever, chest pain, shortness of breath, or any systemic symptoms. She recently was treated for a urinary tract infection. On...
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Dr. Anne Flower Completes Record-Breaking Running Season
When emergency physician Anne Flower, DO, set out to run a 100-mile race in Colorado, she didn’t expect it would turn her into something of a local celebrity. But the result was so impressive that her...
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Despite Drawbacks, Emergency Medicine Remains a Great Specialty
It was a seemingly ordinary drive through Texas that changed John Prescott, MD’s, life and made him realize that emergency medicine was his calling. As a young U.S. Army physician contemplating flight...
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Emergency Medicine as Leaders in Care Provision for Patients with Opioid Use...
In the emergency department (ED), care for patients with substance use disorders, and in particular, those with opioid use disorder (OUD), is limited by numerous factors: inadequate clinician...
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Strengthen Pediatric Emergency Care with New Free Modules
Approximately 35 million children in the United States visit emergency departments (EDs) each year.1 More than 80 percent of those ED visits occur in community hospitals that see fewer than 10 children...
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Screening Tool Helps Docs Evaluate Patients at High Risk of Suicide
As a 15-year veteran of emergency psychiatry, Amy Barnhorst, MD, vice chair for community mental health at the University of California (UC) Davis Department of Psychiatry, said she feels that most of...
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Alcohol Use Disorder: Screening Tools and Medications in the ED
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is often seen as a primary problem in the emergency department (ED) but can also be an impactful underlying condition for many other presentations. Each time we see a patient...
View ArticleFull Circle: The Power of Long-Term Mentorship in Emergency Medicine
When Kendall Donohue, MD, matched into a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship, she was embarking on a path shaped over more than a decade and guided in part by Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, a mentor who...
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