Freestanding Emergency Departments as a Workforce Solution
The Cleveland Clinic has developed a hub-and-spoke acute care model that, if applied more broadly, could address three emergency medicine priorities: increasing job availability for emergency...
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Emergency Physicians Running for Congress in 2022
The profession of medicine is one of the most highly-regulated industries in the country. While we can advocate for emergency physicians through our professional organizations, several emergency...
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Tips for Enjoying San Francisco During ACEP’s Scientific Assembly 2022
After we moved to San Francisco in 2009, neither my wife nor I would have imagined that we’d find a home in this wonderfully unique city. It didn’t have the driveways and lawns of the South Bay...
View ArticleEthical Issues of the Emergency Medicine Workforce
A recent study commissioned by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) identified a likely scenario of a surplus of over 7,000 emergency physicians (EPs) in the United States in 2030. This...
View ArticleThe Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Emergency Department
In 2012, the retail store Target inadvertently informed a father that his young daughter was pregnant.1 The few who knew this before him were the daughter, her mother, and Target’s new artificial...
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Veterans Affairs Emergency Departments Are Geared Toward Veterans
Each year, over 2 million veterans visit our emergency departments (EDs) and urgent care centers. Emergency physicians within the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system have committed themselves to...
View ArticleSTEMI X Symposium Holds Health Care Innovation Ideas Competition
The second annual Stanford Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (STEMI X) was held in May 2022. Almost 400 emergency physicians and other health care stakeholders gathered virtually for keynote...
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Emergency Department Trephination (Burr Hole) for Epidural Hematoma
Emergency physicians must be skillful at performing certain high-risk, low-volume procedures. One of these procedures is emergent skull trephination, or burr hole placement, to decompress an expanding...
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By the Numbers: Physician Burnout
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View ArticleACEP4U: Making it Easier to Find Your Crew
ACEP’s new strategic plan strives to make it simpler to find and feel connected to your corner of the bigger ACEP community. We understand that the College has a lot of members spanning all locations,...
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Dr. Aisha Terry Chosen 2022 ACEP President-Elect
On Thursday, Sept. 29 in San Francisco, Aisha T. Terry, MD, MPH, FACEP, from Washington, D.C., was elected ACEP’s new president-elect. Dr. Terry will serve one year as president-elect before becoming...
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A Novel Technique to Treat a Dental Avulsion
Case Summary A 32-year-old male presented after a fall from standing. He had a right lateral incisor (tooth number 7) avulsion and presented with his tooth in hand. It had not been stored in any liquid...
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Get Those Emergency Medicine Grant Applications Ready!
The Emergency Medicine Foundation is celebrating its 50th anniversary by doing what it does best—awarding more grant funding for impactful emergency medicine research! There is $1.5 million up for...
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How to Manage Acute Agitation in Children
Acute agitation in children in the emergency department (ED) can be hazardous and distressing to patients, families and the ED team.1,2 Over 79 pediatric deaths have been attributed to...
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How To Use Video-Assisted Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
Airway technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and many emergency departments (EDs) now stock video laryngoscopes with hot-swappable disposable blades, second-generation laryngeal masks that...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Risk of Getting COVID-19 by Providing Emergency Care?
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency physicians and nurses became critically needed to address the ensuing patient care crisis, but they were also scared of the effects of exposure to the virus on...
View ArticleA New Snakebite Center Provides Care Patients Desperately Need
Emergency physician William Rushton, MD, used to lie awake at night, worrying about his snakebite patients. People rarely die from envenomations these days thanks to a new, safer generation of...
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Case Report: Fitz-Hugh Curtis Syndrome in a Male with HIV
Portions of this study have been presented as a poster abstract at the Case Western Reserve University 2021 by Martha L. Lepow MD, and Irwin H. Lepow, MD, PhD, during the Virtual Medical Student...
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The Future of Antibiotics and Appendicitis in the Emergency Department
In 2020, following publication of the Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial, the largest randomized controlled trial of antibiotics versus urgent appendectomy for...
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Telehealth Pros and Pitfalls
The Case for Expanding Emergency Telehealth Services by Aditi U. Joshi, MD, MSC, FACEP Telehealth and tel-emergency care isn’t new, not in its purest definition of using technology to connect two...
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