Hydroxychloroquine Toxicity
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unravel, the role of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of patients with this disease has been a major focus of discussion on the news and social media. Despite the lack of good data supporting its use in the clinical setting, there have been numerous reports of individual consumption of HCQ resulting in accidental overdose and even death. It is therefore important to recognize and manage patients who may present [...]
PEM Pearls: Chest Radiographs for Shortness of Breath
Figure 1: Photo by Tim Bish on Unsplash Paramedics bring in a 5-month-old boy in respiratory distress. He’s crying furiously and has normal tone and color. [...]
The rapid code status conversation guide for seriously ill older adults in acute respiratory failure
You are working a regular shift in your emergency department (ED) when a 85 year old female presents with a complaint of altered mental status. She comes from an extended care facility, where [...]
Work Grief: A Primer for Emergency Medicine Providers
Heartbreaking patient situations are the backbone of Emergency Medicine. Whether it’s a new cancer diagnosis, telling a family member that their loved one has died, or the creeping dread that a mistake that [...]
Find it hard to keep current with all the new clinical updates? Get caught up on key evidence-based guidelines, clinical pearls, and patient-centered recommendations for your patients in Emergency Medicine.
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Hydroxychloroquine Toxicity
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unravel, the role of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of patients with this disease has been a major focus of discussion on the news and social media. Despite the lack of good data supporting its use in the clinical setting, there have been numerous reports of individual consumption of HCQ resulting in accidental overdose and even death. It is therefore important to recognize and manage patients who may present [...]
PEM Pearls: Chest Radiographs for Shortness of Breath
Figure 1: Photo by Tim Bish on Unsplash Paramedics bring in a 5-month-old boy in respiratory distress. He’s crying furiously and has normal tone and color. [...]
The rapid code status conversation guide for seriously ill older adults in acute respiratory failure
You are working a regular shift in your emergency department (ED) when a 85 year old female presents with a complaint of altered mental status. She comes from an extended care facility, where [...]
Work Grief: A Primer for Emergency Medicine Providers
Heartbreaking patient situations are the backbone of Emergency Medicine. Whether it’s a new cancer diagnosis, telling a family member that their loved one has died, or the creeping dread that a mistake that [...]
Everything you need to survive and thrive in academia, focusing on professional development across the spectrum of life-long learners including medical students, residents, and faculty
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IDEA Series: Use of gamification through Clue: Pediatric Rash Edition
Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians care for anyone, with anything, at any time. This includes pediatric patients as well as adults. For those without advanced pediatric training, “sick kids” can be quite intimidating. Rashes in the pediatric population are often benign, but in rare cases they portend significant illness. Rashes are also frequent chief complaints; In 2015, there were 1,452,300 pediatric ED visits for “skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders” [1]. We sought to improve the teaching [...]
The Leader’s Library: The Coffee Bean – Open call for participants
Life recently has been, to say the least, a hair stressful. The global pandemic, with all the resultant lifestyle upheaval, has seized a commanding presence in every minute of every day, personal and [...]
IDEA series: The Bleeding Arm Tourniquet Simulation
Education in emergency response to trauma is a global health priority [1]. Mortality rates are nearly twice as high in patients with trauma in low-income as compared to high-income countries [2]. With uncontrolled [...]
EM Bound: Newsletter for medical students interested in EM
Are you a medical student, pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine (EM)? You are navigating your third and fourth years of medical school during an unprecedented time of the COVID-19 era. What if [...]
Being a well-rounded healthcare professional goes beyond just knowing the scientific facts. Get inspired about your wellness, staying healthy, improving your efficiency, and finding a balanced work-life integration.
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Work Grief: A Primer for Emergency Medicine Providers
Heartbreaking patient situations are the backbone of Emergency Medicine. Whether it’s a new cancer diagnosis, telling a family member that their loved one has died, or the creeping dread that a mistake that we’ve made will negatively impact one of our patients, we all experience extraordinary stress in our day-to-day clinical practice. Most clinicians are not tasked with routinely sharing news about the violent, unexpected, and horrific life-changing situations that occur in the emergency department, [...]
9-Minute Workout for the Frontline Provider
Providing medical care for patients at the frontline can be physically demanding. Exercise is an important part of a routine that can help mitigate the physiologic stressors that come with providing care at [...]
Welcoming PECARN to Twitter
Our organization has always been a champion and fan of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) research collaborative. We jointly worked on designing their official Head Injury Decision Tool found printed [...]
How I Stay Healthy in EM: Sarah Mott
Times are hard, work is stressful. With 24/7 news and constant global pandemic updates, our once prized “work stays at work and home stays at home” mentality can be hard to maintain. With [...]