Who Gets Mistriaged? Disparities in Pediatric Behavioral Health ED Triage | A PECARN multicenter analysis
A 14-year-old Hispanic girl presents to the Emergency Department with her mother for suicidal ideation after a conflict at home. The girl is quiet and cooperative. Her mother, who speaks primarily Spanish, is trying to explain the situation. The nurse assigns an ESI level 2, the same score given to nearly every child who walks through the door with a behavioral health complaint. But does that score accurately capture this patient's needs? A new [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Bilateral Leg Swelling with a Uterine Twist
The patient is a 40-year-old female who presents to the Emergency Department with bilateral leg swelling. Her symptoms started six days prior and have [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Curious Case of Abdominal Pain
The patient is a 22-year-old G0P0 female who presents to the Emergency Department with two days of left lower quadrant [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Quirky Quincke’s
The patient is a 38-year-old male with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with chief complaint of “swollen uvula” that [+]
Dump the Myths, Not the Milk: Medication and Imaging Considerations for Lactating Patients in the Emergency Department
The challenges in lactation are often compounded by outdated beliefs held by clinicians. Most of the medications we administer in the emergency department (ED) do not warrant any interruption in expression or feeding of breastmilk. Most imaging we perform in the ED is safe in the lactating patient and likewise does not need interruption. Let us convince you to trash the phrase, “Pump and Dump” in the ED. Most medications commonly given in the [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Quirky Quincke’s
The patient is a 38-year-old male with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with chief complaint of “swollen uvula” that [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Pain, Paralysis, and Rash
The patient is an 81-year-old female with a history of asthma and hypertension who presents to the Emergency Department with right-sided abdominal swelling for [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Hidden Danger
This abdominal radiograph indicates what type of activity? Body packing Body pushing Body stuffing Parachuting [Image from Wikimedia Commons] [+]
EM Match Advice 48: Transitioning from ERAS to ResidencyCAS – Platform Features and Essential Resources
In this episode of EM Match Advice, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford University EM Program Director) speaks with Dr. Liza Smith (Clerkship Director/Associate Program Director at UMass Baystate and past Chair of the CORD Application Process Improvement Committee, and Dr. Tim Fallon (Associate Program Director at Maine Medical Center and the committee's current Chair), about the historic transition from ERAS to ResidencyCAS for EM residency applications. This marks the first year that EM is using [+]
EM Match Advice 40: Program Directors Reflect on the 2023 Match
The 2023 Emergency Medicine Match was an unprecedented year that took many of us in the education community by surprise. There were 132 (46%) EM residency programs with at least one unfilled [+]
How I Educate Series: Jailyn Avila, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Jailyn Avila, core faculty at Southwest Healthcare EM Residency and creator of Core Ultrasound. Dr. Avila spends approximately 70% of her shifts with learners [+]
How I Educate Series: Sara Dimeo, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Sara Dimeo, the Program Director at East Valley Emergency Medicine. Dr. Dimeo spends approximately 70% of her shifts with learners which include emergency medicine [+]
The Leader’s Library: New Rules of Work | Sign up to join the book club
“...picture a map with point A, which is where you are now, and point Z, which is where you retire after a long career. Twenty years ago, there might have been a reasonably finite number of straight lines connecting those two points. Now it’s like a UV light has been turned on, illuminating dozens of previously hidden interconnected pathways that branch and diverge in many directions. And within this maze are any number of paths [+]
How I Work Smarter: Miguel Reyes, MD
One word that best describes how you work? Comfortable Current mobile device iPhone 12 Pro Computer Macbook Air What is something you are working on now? Wound Care article, REBEL EM CME content, [+]
How I Work Smarter: Laryssa Patti, MD
One word that best describes how you work? Organized chaos (that's 2 words) Current mobile device iPhone XS Computer 2020 13" Macbook Air + iPad with keyboard as a second monitort What is [+]
The Leader’s Library: Keep Going | Sign up to join the book club discussion
As we submit our responses to the daily health screen for the thousandth time; realize, after having removed a mountain of PPE and sanitized our hands, that we left our phone in the [+]
