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How To Prepare for In-Flight Emergencies
You are 40,000 feet in the air, flying across the Atlantic Ocean when the intercom crackles to life and you hear the words you’ve dreaded ever since graduating medical school: “Is there a doctor on...
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Is Your Medical Chart Feeling Bloated?
That well-known but medically complex patient is back in your emergency department (ED). He was seen by your colleague last week and had a big workup, so you pull up her clinical note in the electronic...
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Patients’ Best Friends: Therapy Dogs in the Emergency Department
Since time immemorial—or at least the 1956 publication of “Old Yeller”—stories about remarkable dogs who save humans from death have abounded. But stories about remarkable dogs who help patients in...
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ACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights, Updates, and More From 2022
As we kick off 2023, ACEP chapters were invited to share their news from the past year and preview what’s to come. From the national level, ACEP welcomed Chris Johnson as its new Senior Director of...
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ACEP Council Debates Scope of Practice, Access to Care, Safe Injection Sites,...
More than 60 resolutions were put forth during the ACEP22 Council Meeting in San Francisco, with many of them drawing considerable discussion and debate. As usual, the resolutions provided a snapshot...
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Case Report: An Endocrine Enigma
A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) after a witnessed seizure. On examination, the patient had mild confusion, a head laceration, and a tongue abrasion. She was noted to have...
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Beware of Benzonatate (Tessalon) Misuse
Case Summary A 14-year-old female with a history of depression and prior overdose presented via EMS following an intentional overdose of benzonatate. She ingested approximately 15, 100-mg benzonatate...
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Interview with ABEM President Samuel M. Keim, MD, MS
Can you tell us about your role as ABEM president? Dr. Keim: I am really excited about this opportunity to work with an amazing board and staff. The work is meaningful to current patient care quality...
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Q&A with Annals of Emergency Medicine Medical Editor Dr. Donald Yealy
Dr. Yealy became the new editor-in-chief of Annals of Emergency Medicine in 2022. Why is Annals of Emergency Medicine the best journal in emergency medicine? Dr. Yealy: For 50 years, Annals has...
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Emergency Physician Restrictive Covenants Explained
Forty years after its founding as a single-site democratic group, the physician-owned practice group of which I am a part added additional contracts in 2022. The sites where our group gained contracts...
View ArticleYour ED Boarding Stories Shape ACEP’s Advocacy Efforts
Wait times and staffing shortages are causing bottlenecks that are overwhelming hospitals, forcing emergency care to spill into hallways and lobbies and putting lives at risk. As part of its advocacy...
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Shift from Metabolize-to-Freedom to Medication-Assisted Treatment
“Metabolize to freedom” or “MTF” as it is commonly known to emergency physicians is too frequently the instructions that accompany sign out to a colleague. Alcohol use disorder (AUD), a preventable and...
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Dr. Alister Martin’s Medical Entrepreneurship for Equity
Alister Martin, MD, MPP, encapsulates a mindset that embodies the spirit of emergency medicine: the entrepreneurial spirit. It would be easy for anyone looking through his resume to be curious about...
View ArticleWhy Physicians Are Overconfident and How We Can Overcome It
Medical training oftentimes relies on pattern recognition, which is necessary to develop an excellent clinician who is both efficient and precise. There’s a flip side, though. An over-reliance on...
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The Real-World Utility of Ophthalmic Tomography
It is not uncommon for patients with eye and vision concerns to present initially to the emergency department (ED). Unfortunately, effective, reliable, and easy-to-use tools for eye examination are not...
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The New Mexico Bridge Program
In 2020, New Mexico established the New Mexico (NM) Bridge—a new initiative to address the state’s rapidly rising opioid-overdose death rate. The NM Bridge partners with hospitals across New Mexico to...
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CEDR Transforms Into the Emergency Medicine Data Institute
Over the last 50 years, emergency departments (EDs) have become the hub of acute care, with relentless increases in patient volumes and unprecedented access to high level diagnostic technology and...
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Difficult Decisions in the Intensive Care Unit
Mr. Rogers Today, I am leading the team this morning in the intensive care unit (ICU) when we walk into the room of Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers is a 64-year-old gentleman with a past medical history of...
View ArticleA Profession in Peril?
For decades, emergency physicians took pride in being a much-desired specialty for graduating medical students. Emergency-medicine residencies routinely filled 99 percent of their available positions...
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Q&A with Annals of Emergency Medicine Medical Editor Dr. Donald Yealy
Dr. Yealy became the new editor-in-chief of Annals of Emergency Medicine in 2022. Why is Annals of Emergency Medicine the best journal in emergency medicine? Dr. Yealy: For 50 years, Annals has...
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