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Updates in the Management of Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia or...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a commonly encountered entity in U.S. emergency departments (EDs), with statistics reporting more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests per year.1 Ventricular...
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Xylazine: “Zombie Drug” is an Emerging Threat
CASE A 30-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with left arm pain from a chronic wound. She notes that the wound has been present for greater than a year and it becomes malodorous and...
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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer...
Each year, ACEP’s Council elects new leaders for the College at its meeting. The Council, which represents all 53 chapters, 40 sections of membership, the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency...
View ArticleThe Most Philly Thing Ever
Sure, he made the national news for saving a life at an Eagles game while wearing an elaborate Mummer’s Day costume, but did you know he’s also his residency’s social chair and has all the best local...
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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness
Emergency medicine is stressful. There are charged moments of powerful highs and lows. In one shift, you may achieve return of spontaneous circulation in a college student with a massive pulmonary...
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Four Perfect Days in Philly at ACEP23
Philadelphia offers rich history, but it is also a food lover’s dream and a cultural cornucopia. While visiting for the ACEP Scientific Assembly, you will have the chance to attend some of the best...
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2023–2024 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
The Southeast region’s numbers. (Click to enlarge.) Nearly two years since COVID disrupted the emergency medicine job market, things are finally looking up. The Fall 2023 market is up about 20 percent...
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How To Avoid Missing an Aortic Dissection
A 50-year-old female develops chest pain radiating to the neck and left arm. ECG, CXR, and troponin are negative. She is given morphine for pain. Four hours later she develops back pain and bilateral...
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Ten Ways to Communicate Empathy in Chaos
When considering an optimized environment for compassionate patient communication, the chaotic emergency department (ED) probably gives some clinicians pause. EDs, filled with alarms, frequent...
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Four Perfect Days in Philly at ACEP23
Philadelphia offers rich history, but it is also a food lover’s dream and a cultural cornucopia. While visiting for the ACEP Scientific Assembly, you will have the chance to attend some of the best...
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2023–2024 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
The Southeast region’s numbers. (Click to enlarge.) Nearly two years since COVID disrupted the emergency medicine job market, things are finally looking up. The Fall 2023 market is up about 20 percent...
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Emergency Physician Climbs the Seven Summits
Ben Mattingly, MD, tries to live by the adage, “One should be adventurous and daring, but not reckless.” The challenge is that the line between adventurous and reckless is often paper-thin. Take, for...
View ArticleHow to Grow Your Professional Network at ACEP23
Networking and making new friends in the specialty is one of the best parts about ACEP events like the upcoming 2023 Scientific Assembly, but it’s also a bit mysterious. How exactly does one “work the...
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American Physican Partners’ Closing Raises Questions
When American Physician Partners (APP) of Brentwood, Tenn., one of the country’s largest physician staffing firms, announced on July 17 through an email to its employees its intention to cease...
View ArticleIs it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.?
It’s the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. Intended to examine the state of emergency care and make recommendations...
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The Job Market in Emergency Medicine: Perspectives of Graduating Residents in...
The emergency medicine workforce is an important issue with ramifications for physicians relocating or retiring, medical students considering the specialty, and graduating residents seeking their first...
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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine
In April 2023, the third edition of the Brain Trauma Foundation’s evidence-based guidelines for the prehospital management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was published in Prehospital Emergency Care.1...
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Traumatizing Patients with Trauma Activations
Each time she moved her hand it caught my eye: the glint of her bejeweled fingers sharply contrasting with the spare gurney and paper-thin blanket. The fat heaviness of her rings seemed startling...
View ArticleTips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department
Clinical Case Your next patient is a Spanish-speaking 24-year-old female who begins by telling you that she is embarazada. Despite her bashfulness, you debate whether or not to call in the interpreter,...
View ArticleTexas Residency Program Unexpectedly Announces Closure
The CHRISTUS Health-Texas A&M Spohn Emergency Medicine Residency Program announced Friday that its program will close in June 2026 after the current emergency medicine residents complete their...
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