SAEM Clinical Images Series: Snorkeling Gone Wrong!
The patient is a 30-year-old female who presents to the Emergency Department with severe left foot pain after snorkeling in shallow water off the coast of Phuket, Thailand. She reports a sudden onset of pain as she was kicking her legs while swimming. She describes the pain as burning in nature [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Wilma, Take a Look at This!
A 2-year, 11-month-old female with a history of constipation was brought to the ED by her mother [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: When Needles Go Beyond Sewing and Acupuncture
A 64-year-old male with a history of bipolar 1 disorder, PTSD, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, GERD, and HTN presented to the ED with the chief complaint of foreign [+]
Trick of the Trade: Cut IV extension tubing for 2-person ultrasound guided nerve block
Ultrasound-guided procedures are difficult enough just identifying the anatomy. Performing a nerve block with the ultrasound in one hand and the needle in the other hand adds extra challenges. The simplest 1-person approach [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Leg Rash
A 42-year-old male with no significant medical problems presented to the Emergency Department with a 5-week history of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. He also reported painful intraoral blisters and ulcerative lesions on the bilateral lower extremities and scrotum. The patient had been self-managing his symptoms with over-the-counter antidiarrheal medications and has unsuccessfully attempted to establish care with a gastroenterologist. He denied any history of intravenous [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Foreign Body
A 61-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and normal pressure hydrocephalus s/p VP shunt (last revision nine months ago) presented to [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Pediatric Neck Mass
A 5-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) with a one-year history of gradually increasing anterior neck swelling. The patient had no significant past medical history. She [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Interesting Case of Ocular Trauma
A 27-year-old male with no past medical history presents to the Emergency Department with right eye pain. He states that approximately one week prior, he was working on [+]
The Fall of FOAM
The landscape of emergency medicine and critical care (EM/CC) blogs and podcasts has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The number of free, open-access EM/CC blogs and podcasts has plummeted. As reported by Lin and colleagues in JMIR Education (2022), these sites decreased in number from 183 in 2014 to just 109 this year– a drop of 40.1% [1]. via GIPHY This comes after a period of rapid growth of these educational resources [+]
SAEM Clinical Image Series: The Hemorrhaging Bifurcated Tongue
A 26-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department for tongue bleeding for one day. Five days prior he had an elective cosmetic tongue [+]
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Shortness of Breath
A 60-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) for respiratory distress. Emergency medical services reports that the patient was in respiratory distress upon arrival, slowly becoming unresponsive [+]
2021-22 ALiEM Faculty Incubator applications open: Bye COVID, hello scholarship
The ALiEM Faculty Incubator is opening its doors to the fifth class of 30 educator-scholars. We have been thrilled by the quality of collaboration, growth, and scholarship output from this community ever since [+]
The Leader’s Library: The Power of Moments | Sign Up for the Book Club
Thus far, 2020 has been a year of catastrophic events, some surprising and others disappointingly predictable, and many people are struggling to navigate the chaos, to grasp at some semblance of a routine in the face of an unpredictable near future. Time has become a blur, a coalescence of unremarkable (yet unprecedented) moments. What if we have the possibility to intentionally create these moments, for ourselves and those around us? What if, by reframing the [+]
I am Dr. Linda Regan, EM Program Director: How I Stay Healthy in EM
Dr. Linda Regan is an emergency physician from Baltimore, Maryland. When she’s not on shift, she can be found taking care of her residents and colleagues, always placing others before herself. Dr. Regan’s [+]
26 Best Wellness Apps for Emergency Physicians | A Wellness Think Tank Initiative
If you have spent any time working in an emergency department in the last 10 years, you have undoubtedly come across a conversation about wellness and burnout in medicine. Despite increasing awareness, the [+]
Announcing a Crowdsourced Wellness Initiatives Database for EM Residency Programs
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” – Plato The rigors of post-graduate training can strain even the most stoic of residents – the next task, the next project, the [+]
