Optimizing Pediatric Trauma Care: Evidence-Based Guidance for Emergency...
No scenario demands more rapid, high-stakes decision-making than pediatric trauma—the leading cause of death for children—where timely interventions significantly influence outcomes.1,2 Despite trauma...
View ArticleLiberate Methadone: An Introduction for the Emergency Medicine Physician
We are in the midst of the worst overdose crisis in American history, with greater than 100,000 deaths in the last year on record.1 Overdose is the leading cause of death among Americans 40-years-old...
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Rekindling the Fire in Emergency Medicine
On a recent shift, I cared for a stroke patient with a story that, on the surface, was one that we hear all too often in Emergency Medicine. “Mrs. A”, as we’ll call her, arrived hypertensive and...
View ArticleEvidence Mounts Backing Rescue Ketamine for Prehospital Status Epilepticus
For more than seven years, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue in Palm Beach County, Fla., has been following a protocol to administer ketamine for midazolam-resistant status epilepticus (SE). The protocol...
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CHANTER Syndrome—Fentanyl and Cocaine Use Meets Neurotoxic Edema
A 26-year-old female with a history of bilateral anterior communicating artery stroke without residual deficits and polysubstance use presented to the ED with three days of altered mental status,...
View ArticleHealth Care in a New Administration
The first 90 days of the new administration have seen considerable activity surrounding health policy, both through direct policy actions and as downstream consequences of other policies. Several key...
View ArticleResearch Returns Spotlight to Physician ED Coverage
Research in JACEP Open, ACEP’s peer-reviewed open access journal, features a map of the United States to show which emergency departments have round-the-clock coverage by a board-certified emergency...
View ArticleACEP Now Interviews ABEM President Dr. Diane Gorgas
Each year, ACEP Now catches up with the President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine to discuss the state of the specialty, training priorities and education trends. Recently, ACEP Now Medical...
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ACEP Member, N.C. State Representative Explains Hierarchy of Advocacy
Vote. That’s the bare minimum, says North Carolina State Representative and ACEP member Timothy Reeder, (R-D9), MD, FACEP. When he’s not actively pushing for laws in North Carolina that make positive...
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UCSF Resident Lives the Dream On “Survivor” Season 47
“Hey, boss? Can I have four or five weeks off?” Kishan Patel, MD, couldn’t believe it. A third-year resident in the University of California San Francisco Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Dr....
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