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2019 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates
Each year, ACEP’s Council elects new leaders for the College at its meeting. The Council, which represents all 53 chapters, 39 sections of membership, the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency...
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Incrementalization of the Cunningham Technique for Anterior Shoulder Reduction
In my own career and from watching hundreds of colleagues, residents, and other clinical staff, I am convinced that job performance, competence, and satisfaction are intertwined. The clinicians who are...
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A Unified Naloxone-Guideline Graph
This graph is an easy-to-understand guideline to help determine if a patient’s clinical status is likely to improve with naloxone administration. How to Use the Graph Assess patient’s level of...
View ArticleWhat Emergency Physicians Need to Know About Anti-Inflammatory Monoclonal...
If you watch network prime-time news programs at all, you can’t help but be impressed by the number of direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads that dominate the commercials. It seems the demographics of the...
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Treatment Strategies for Precipitated Opioid Withdrawal after Naloxone Rescue
Abstinence-related, or spontaneous, withdrawal occurs gradually over hours to days, whereas precipitated withdrawal, caused by the administration of a receptor antagonist, occurs suddenly and with...
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Naloxone Is Just One Piece of the Opioid Puzzle
Drug overdose deaths nearly tripled in the United States between 1999 and 2014. The majority involved opioids.1 The need to prevent overdose-related deaths is an absolute priority. Comprehensive...
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Emergency Medicine in Norway
From Left: Kåre Løvstakken, MD, project leader at AHUS; Gayle Galletta, MD, FACEP; and Lars Petter Bjørnsen, MD, FACEP, founder of Norwegian Society of Emergency Medicine, at the Society’s fourth...
View ArticleCOVID-19 for the Emergency Physicians: What You Need to Know
Visit ACEP.org for the latest updates on COVID-19 and resources for emergency physicians. Listen to ACEP Now Medical Editor in Chief Dr. Jeremy Faust discuss this article in the ACEP Nowcast. COVID-19,...
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Meningitis Test Could Reduce Unnecessary Admissions
CHRIS WHISSEN & SHUTTERSTOCK.com Disclosure: Dr. Talan is a paid consultant for BioFire Diagnostics and has advised on the development of new assays and collaborative research on meningitis and...
View ArticleTips for Coping with Dr. Google, Online Reviews, Social Media, and More
CHRIS WHISSEN & SHUTTERSTOCK.com Your patients are online. You are online. How many of these scenarios ring true? “I did an internet search, and I think I may have dengue fever.” “Did you see that...
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EMF Researcher Demonstrates the True Value of Emergency Care
The mission of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is to invest in innovative clinical and health policy research projects that improve the practice of emergency medicine and patient care. Last...
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Emergency Physician Dr. Cataldo Corrado Jr. Reflects on 53-Year Career
Cataldo Corrado Jr., MD, FACEP, was the youngest of eight children. Named after his father, a family physician in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and affectionately dubbed “Little Doc” by his family and...
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Saline Load or CT: What’s the Best Test for Traumatic Arthrotomy?
Figure 1: An 81-year-old female with a 10-cm laceration that extends across the anterior surface of the knee. Her patella is exposed but there is no clearly visible intra-articular surface to indicate...
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Tips for Managing Weber B Ankle Fractures
In the emergency department, isolated fibular ankle fractures are frequently characterized using the Danis-Weber classification system. This fracture classification system, based on the level of the...
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A Farewell Message from ACEP Now’s Medical Editor in Chief
Susan R. Symonds for Mainframe Photographics I wrote my first column for ACEP News as a fourth-year medical student in 2012. By allowing me to keep contributing columns during my early residency...
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Managing Pain Relief in Palliative Care
shutterstock.com Emergency physicians are proficient in recognizing and caring for the dying medical or trauma patient but often have limited training in managing patients who are actively dying from a...
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How to Evaluate Diplopia and Spot Life-Threatening Etiologies
Chris Whissen & shutterstock.com Diplopia, colloquially referred to as “double vision,” is a challenging chief complaint in the emergency department. The etiologies are vast. Acute life-threatening...
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Dr. Cedric Dark: An Unexpected Journey to Medical Editor in Chief
Thank you for entrusting me with the mantle of Medical Editor in Chief of the “Official Voice of Emergency Medicine.” Assuming the reins of ACEP Now from my predecessor is a heady endeavor and one that...
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EMF-Funded Research Identifying Patients with High COVID-19 Risk in North...
Since its launch in 1972, the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) has awarded grants totaling more than $17 million to support research projects developed to improve and advance the field of emergency...
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A Patient- and Family-Focused Approach to Terminal Extubation
Phanie/Science Source During a busy ED shift, you are called to the resuscitation bay to evaluate an 86-year-old woman found by EMS. She was found alone and unconscious and was intubated in the field...
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