SAEM Clinical Images Series: Tropical Rash
The patient is a 30-year-old female with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with 2 months of non-healing ulcers on multiple parts of her body. She reports getting bitten by flies while traveling in wooded trails from Venezuela through Mexico. She reports the bites started as small scabs that have since enlarged, but they are non-painful or pruritic. She has ulcerative lesions [+]
High sensitivity cardiac troponins for ED chest pain evaluation (2022 ACC pathway)
How do we best use high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) to risk stratify patients with symptoms concerning for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? The 2022 American College of Cardiology (ACC) pathway provides timely [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | Toxicology Module
Welcome to the AIR Toxicology Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Digital Impact Factor [1], the ALiEM AIR [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Back Lesion
An 18-year-old-female with no known past medical history presented with a lesion [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Not Very A-peel-ing
Which of the following chemicals, commonly used in chemical peels, can cause severe, gray colored skin burns upon direct contact? Acetone Hydrogen peroxide Phenol Salicylic acid [Author’s own image] [+]
Emma Lindemann, MD
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Apricot Kernels: Eat or pass?
What toxin is found in bitter apricot kernels? Cardiac glycoside Cyanogenic glycoside Dinitrophenol Lysergic Acid [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: More Than Skin Deep
A 57-year-old female college counselor living in the northeastern United States with no PMH presented for evaluation of rash, joint pain, and dyspnea for the past three weeks. [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Man with a Recurrent Rash
A 33-year-old male presented to the emergency department with a diffuse pruritic rash that appeared several days after starting Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) for a dental infection. Initially beginning on [+]
Dear emergency physicians: We see you
https://youtu.be/jtGM-BUp_no The COVID-19 pandemic has placed incredible stress and strain on the personal work lives of emergency physicians. We have endured these almost 2 years of misinformation, PPE shortages, fear, frustration, grief, and death. So much going on in the world politically and socioeconomically, we at ALiEM wanted to share a message that WE SEE YOU. We're with you, and we're in this together. Credits Thank you for the tireless work on this video by [+]
Match Day! Words of Wisdom for Life
Last week, more than 2000 medical students were matched into medicine. We welcomed you, and also offered some advice for how to manage the heavy workload of intern year. For the second part [+]
Match Day! Words of Wisdom for Work
Congratulations on matching into emergency medicine! We are glad to have you. The journey you are about to embark on will be equal parts grueling and rewarding. You will be pushed to your [+]
Teaching in the age of COVID-19: The wrap-up
ALiEM developed the “Teaching in the age of COVID-19” blog series in order to help faculty members identify education/productivity technologies that can help them up their game during this COVID-19 associated period. [+]
Making Remote Work “Work” for You and Your Organization
A 32-year-old male presents for evaluation of fever and mild dry cough. His vital signs are stable and within normal limits, he is in no respiratory distress, and he looks otherwise comfortable. He is a physician at a nearby emergency department and he notifies you that he just learned that he was just exposed to a Coronavirus positive patient. He had not been wearing personal protective equipment at that time. [+]
I am Dr. Megan Fix, Associate Program Director: How I Stay Healthy in EM
Dr. Megan Fix is an emergency physician at the University of Utah. For her, staying healthy is all about maintaining your balance, keeping activating, fostering healthy relationships, and knowing and loving oneself. Despite [+]
A Starter’s Roadmap to EM Resources: Books, Websites, and Apps
With the start of the year, we welcomed a new group of faces into our respective residency programs. We can all still remember how daunting it was to tackle learning the immense volume of material [+]
Using Slack for Residency Communication – Do’s and Dont’s
One of the most difficult parts of residency and medical education is coordination and communication. Often residents and faculty alike can be found drowning in a never ending onslaught of emails, with chains [+]
