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As I walked into the room and gave a tired smile and introduction, I saw the mother of the small baby girl start to relax. “Yes, I believe you are right. She probably has croup,” I said after listening to the mother’s history while watching, then listening to the child breathe...
Where does emergency medicine fit into this emerging framework? Does it fit at all—does it even have to fit, or can it remain effectively outside and immune from this new world order of health care? How do we add value as the transformation occurs?
A draft of a new clinical policy from the American College of Emergency Physicians takes a much more conservative approach on using intravenous tPA for managing acute ischemic stroke in the emergency department than the current guidelines, which were approved in 2012...
Scrubs —- check. Stethoscope — check. Body camera — check. That’s a list I’d like to see more doctors and nurses check off before they start their shifts...
Each year brings new challenges for our specialty to face and a new President to the lead the charge. Michael J. Gerardi, MD, who took over as ACEP President in October, shares his views on a few of those challenges...
It may sound like medical heresy, but the decades-long use of ACLS drugs does not appear to favorably affect the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Their use, in fact, may be detrimental to long-term survival...
To mold great doctors, we need to broaden the foundations of undergraduate medical training – more Kant, less calc...