About Fareen Zaver, MD

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Resident Incubator 2017-18
Lead Editor/Co-Founder of ALiEM Approved Instructional Resources - Professional (AIR-Pro)
Champion, 2016-17 ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator
Board Member, 2016-17 ALiEM Wellness Think Tank
Deputy Head - Education and Clinical Assistant Professor for Emergency Medicine
University of Calgary Emergency Department

AIR-Pro Series: Trauma (2015)

Below we have listed our selection of the 6 highest quality blog posts related to 4 advanced level questions on trauma topics posed, curated, and approved for residency training by the AIR-Pro Series Board. The blogs relate to the following questions:

When to give tranexamic acid in the trauma patient
The pregnant trauma patient
Transfusions in the trauma patient
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA)

In this module, we have 6 AIR-Pro’s and we did not include any honorable mentions to prevent redundancy of the topics covered. To strive for comprehensiveness, we selected from a broad spectrum of blogs identified through FOAMSearch.net.

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By Fareen Zaver, MD|2017-03-05T14:18:42-08:00Nov 23, 2015|Approved Instructional Resources PRO (AIR-Pro Series), Trauma|

AIR-Pro Series: Cardiovascular (2015)

Below we have listed our selection of the 8 highest quality blog posts related to 3 advanced level questions on cardiovascular topics posed, curated, and approved for residency training by the AIR-Pro Series Board. The blogs relate to the following questions:

Advanced concepts about Sgarbossa’s Criteria
Troubleshooting pacemaker’s and automated implantable cardioverter defibrillators (AICD’s)
Troubleshooting left ventricular assist devices (LVAD’s)

In this module, we have 5 AIR-Pro’s and 3 Honorable Mentions. To strive for comprehensiveness, we selected from a broad spectrum of blogs identified through FOAMSearch.net.

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By Fareen Zaver, MD|2017-01-20T12:32:51-08:00Sep 21, 2015|Approved Instructional Resources PRO (AIR-Pro Series), Cardiovascular|

New Advanced “AIR Professional” Series: AIR-Pro

We are excited to introduce an offshoot of the AIR series (Approved Instructional Resources) called the AIR Professional series! The AIR-Pro series was conceived to answer more advanced level concepts, while continuing to follow the AIR series model of providing a credible method to identify quality blogs and podcasts. Similar to the AIR Series, we hope to provide U.S. Emergency Medicine residents an additional resource for Individualized Interactive Instruction (III) conference credit.

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By Fareen Zaver, MD|2017-03-05T14:14:14-08:00Sep 21, 2015|Approved Instructional Resources PRO (AIR-Pro Series), Medical Education|

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