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![]() EMT students explore careers in emergency medicine
Franklin News Post
EMT students explore careers in emergency medicine. Dual enrollment class qualifies for college credits. Click to Enlarge Staff Photo by Stacey Hairston: Carilion's Lifeguard 10 helicopter flew into Franklin County to let FCHS's EMT class get a first ...
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![]() Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Emergency Medicine ...
PR Web (press release)
Andrew W. Asimos, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, and Director of Emergency Stroke Care, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, presented When Dizziness Is a Disaster: Vertigo and ...
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![]() Loyola Physician Named to Board of Illinois College of Emergency Medicine ...
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — Dr. Mark Cichon, DO, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Loyola University Medical Center, has been named to the board of directors of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP). ICEP is the state medical specialty ...
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![]() Medicine grad discovered love of science on tour with his band
Temple University News
This May, Kleinberg, 33, will graduate from Temple's School of Medicine bound for a residency in emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital. His path to medicine was sparked by those seven years on the road, specifically by the 1974 Greyhound bus ...
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![]() Emergency Medicine App palmEM is Updated and Expanded
prMac (press release)
[prMac.com] Wilmington, Delaware - PalmER Worldwide today is thrilled to announce a major update to their top-selling Universal iOS emergency medicine app palmEM: Emergency Medicine Essentials Quick Reference Guide. With detailed information on ...
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![]() Top 10 emergency medicine audit defense strategies
Family Practice News Digital Network
SAN DIEGO – If you or your emergency medicine group is audited, one strategy is to use the Marshfield Clinic Tool to help explain medical decision making – specifically how comorbidities, the differential diagnosis, and special studies affected the ...
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![]() Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds with former chief medical officer for ...
IUPUI Newscenter
Jeffrey Runge, M.D., will present grand rounds sponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine and MESH at 8 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, in IU Health Neuroscience Center Auditorium (Goodman Hall, Room 1030). Dr. Runge was the assistant ...
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![]() Emergency medicine specialist: race against death
People's Daily Online
"We take saving lives as the overriding priority, which means that we must race against time," said Chen Xiangyu, an emergency medicine specialist of Southwest Hospital in southwest China's Chongqing. Unlike others jobs, emergency medicine specialist ...
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![]() Learn Tactical Emergency Medicine: One Way To Prepare for Tragedy
Patch.com
The next such class, "Tactical Emergency Medicine," is set for 1-5 p.m. Sunday at the studio, 1414 Reisterstown Road. The cost is $50. BK Blankchtein, owner of Masada Tactical, and a former member of the Israel Defense Forces in counterintelligence and ...
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![]() Analysis: U.S. emergency care cost estimates are too low
Science Daily (press release)
Lee, who had a prior career in economics and finance before training in emergency medicine, co-wrote the analysis with Dr. Brian Zink, professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School, and Dr. Jeremiah Schuur, ...
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![]() Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the ...
News-Medical.net
Annals Of Emergency Medicine: Owning The Cost Of Emergency Medicine: Beyond 2% – Emergency room care is often cited as overused and one of the drivers of the increasing health spending. However, emergency room physicians have countered that ...
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![]() Global Conference on Emergency Medicine set for successful second edition
AME Info (press release)
Noted as the largest gathering of Emergency Medical professionals in the region, the Second Global Conference Network on Emergency Medicine in association with the First Emirates Society for Emergency Medicine Conference, will be held at the Al Bustan ...
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![]() $50 Million Fundraising Campaign for Danbury Hospital and New Milford ...
Stamford Plus Magazine
The new Emergency Department at Danbury Hospital will be named The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Department of Emergency Medicine, while the Emergency Department at New Milford Hospital will be named The Arnhold Department of Emergency ...
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![]() Peer-Referral Programs Can Increase HIV-Testing in Emergency Departments
Infection Control Today
Co-author and assistant professor of emergency medicine Michael Lyons, MD, says public health officials study multiple approaches to increasing early diagnosis of HIV. These approaches include a recent emphasis on expanding testing in healthcare ...
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![]() Bipartisan Bill for School Access to Emergency Epinephrine
Southern Maryland News Net
This legislation has the endorsement of Food Allergy Research & Education; the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... Tags: Emergency ...
Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) Champions Federal Legislation ...PR Web (press release)
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![]() Study finds jump in hospital ER-related admissions
Crain's Detroit Business
In a February interview, Dr. Leon Haley, chief of emergency medicine, noted that the system had just finished a 12-week engagement with a consulting firm on its emergency department. With fewer emergency rooms across the country handling a greater ...
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![]() National EMS Week Honors Those on Medicine's Front Lines
WSAW
It's National Emergency Medical Services week and in addition to honoring those who provide lifesaving services on medicine's front lines, they're asking you to help them out by learning some basic emergency medicine skills. Tony Stange, an EMT for the ...
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![]() Emergency department at Mercy Memorial announces partnership
Urbana Daily Citizen
Mercy Memorial Hospital, which treats more than 18,000 patients in the emergency department each year, has announced a new partnership with Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP) that begins May 21. With the new partnership taking effect, Dr. Joan ...
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![]() Study suggests new role for ECMO in treating patients with cardiac arrest and ...
Medical Xpress
For the study, the research team used a collaborative approach between clinicians in the Department of Emergency Medicine and surgeons within the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Penn to assess the outcomes for select patients undergoing ECMO ...
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![]() Moms Who Inspire Contest Winners — Myiesha Taylor, Anna Brindley, and Micki ...
D Magazine
Myiesha is an Emergency Medicine physician, small business owner, wife and mom. Her story of becoming the physician that she is today goes back to her early childhood. Her mother and grand mother (both nurses) encouraged her to pursue a career as a ...
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![]() Snapshot: Debbie Sullivan
The Newtown Bee
We've been at this location since December, but I've been a PA for 18 years, in women's health for the first ten years and emergency medicine. This is my happy place! Family: My husband is Tim. We have three kids. Lianna is 10 years old and goes to ...
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![]() Med students to graduate Friday
Fairborn Daily Herald
His older sister Laura graduated in 2009 and is starting a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus. His younger sister, Sarah, finished her second year of medical school and will graduate in 2015. Laura's ...
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Ann Emerg Med
Determining Risk for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Location Type in a Canadian Urban Setting to Guide Future Public Access Defibrillator Placement.
(May 2013)
Health Information Exchange Reduces Repeated Diagnostic Imaging for Back Pain.
(Feb 2013)
Acad Emerg Med
Incremental value of objective cardiac testing in addition to physician impression and serial contemporary troponin measurements in women.
(Mar 2013)
Reducing blood culture contamination in the emergency department: an interrupted time series quality improvement study.
(Jan 2013)
Emerg Med Clin North Am
Stroke mimics.
(Aug 2012)
Regional nerve blocks of the face.
(May 2013)
Am J Emerg Med
Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis score as a prognostic indicator in patients with pyogenic liver abscess.
(Apr 2013)
Direct evaluation of the effect of filtering the chest compression artifacts on the uninterrupted cardiopulmonary resuscitation time.
(May 2013)
Pediatr Emerg Care
Sitting or tilt position for infant lumbar puncture does not increase ultrasound measurements of lumbar subarachnoid space width.
(May 2013)
Valproic Acid-induced acute pancreatitis and multiorgan failure in a child.
(May 2013)
Eur J Emerg Med
Undertreatment of pain in the prehospital setting: a comparison between trauma patients and patients with chest pain.
(Dec 2012)
Impact of a working group on gastrointestinal decontamination in Spanish emergency departments.
(Mar 2013)
JAMA
Surgical standby for coronary balloon angioplasty.
(Aug 1992)
Delaying defibrillation to give basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation to patients with out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation: a randomized trial.
(Mar 2003)
N Engl J Med
The usefulness of chest radiographs in first asthma attacks.
(Aug 1983)
Emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in older Americans.
(Nov 2011)
BMJ
Use of computer terminals on wards to access emergency test results: a retrospective audit.
(May 2001)
Evidence of methodological bias in hospital standardised mortality ratios: retrospective database study of English hospitals.
(2009)
Prehosp Emerg Care
A descriptive study of the "lift-assist" call.
(Jan-Mar 2013)
Information on myocardial ischemia and arrhythmias added by prehospital electrocardiograms.
(Apr-Jun 2013)
Air Med J
Heliox in children with croup: a strategy to hasten improvement.
(May-Jun 2012)
Air medical repatriation: compassionate and palliative care consideration during transport.
(Sep-Oct 2012)
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The Casualty Care Research Center prepared this series of real-life-based risk scenarios.
The Centers for Disease Control has established a Bioterrorism Program to ensure the rapid development of federal, state, and local capacity to address potential bioterrorism events.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control notifies clinicians of serious ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats.
The Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for managing and coordinating Federal medical responses to major emergencies, including those resulting from terrorism.
Documents and resources to facilitate response planning for a terrorist incident
eMedicine CBRNE
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Cyanides, Cyanogen Chloride
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Evaluation Of A Biological Warfare Victim
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Evaluation Of A Chemical Warfare Victim
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Glanders and Melioidosis
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Incapacitating Agents, 3-quinuclidinyl Benzilate
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Incapacitating Agents, Agent 15
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Incapacitating Agents, Cannabinoids
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Incapacitating Agents, LSD
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Incendiary Agents, Magnesium and Thermite
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Incendiary Agents, Napalm
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Incendiary Agents, White Phosphorus
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Irritants: Cs, Cn, Cnc, Ca, Cr, Cnb, PS
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Lung-Damaging Agents, Chlorine
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Lung-damaging Agents, Chloropicrin
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Lung-damaging Agents, Diphosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Phosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Toxic Smokes: Nox, Hc, Rp, Fs, Fm, Sgf2, Teflon
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Nerve Agents, G-series: Tabun, Sarin, Soman
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Nerve Agents, V-series: Ve, Vg, Vm, Vx
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Urticants, Phosgene Oxime
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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
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Vesicants, Mustard: Hd, Hn1-3, H
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Vesicants, Organic Arsenicals: L, ED, MD, PD, HL
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
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Vomiting Agents: Dm, Da, Dc
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RECENT BLOG POSTINGS
EMT students explore careers in emergency medicine - EMS1.com
EMS1 Daily News
By Stacey Hairston The Franklin News-Post. FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. � Franklin County High School's Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) class got a first-hand look at the equipment on board Carilion's Lifeguard 10 last ...
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Enhancing emergency medical care for soldiers - Ministry of Defence
cyberpioneer News
The Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, which will be located close to the Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF's) major training areas in western Singapore, will provide hospital emergency medical care to SAF personnel training in ...
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Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: Review: Emergency ...
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
In the book Emergency Medicine: Avoiding the Pitafalls and Improving the Outcomes edited by Dr. Amal Mattu along with Dr. Deepi Goyal, you can find many pitfalls that should be considered when managing patients in the ...
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Leader in emergency medicine delivers McNabney Lectureship | PRN
P.R.N. | UMKC School of Medicine
Peter Rosen, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.E.P., F.A.A.E.M., a senior lecturer on medicine at Harvard School of Medicine and attending emergency physician at Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center took a look back at the evolution of ...
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The Crashing Asthmatic - Emergency Medicine Ireland
Emergency Medicine Ireland
UPDATE: Since making this, StEmlyns have scuppered my take on Mag by reporting the 3MG trial which gave a big great 'hmpph' to mag and suggest very little, if any benefit. Check out their take. In my current dept, there's a ...
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Emergency Medicine residency celebrates 40th anniversary | P.R.N. ...
P.R.N. | UMKC School of Medicine
The UMKC School of Medicine Emergency Medicine Resdiency Program celebrated its 40th anniversary with a weekend of activities that included many of its nearly 350 alumni on May 3-4. The celebration began with the ...
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Emergency Medicine Update May 2013 - Life in the Fast Lane ...
Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog
Yosef Leibman's Emergency Medicine Update May 2013 is here!
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ACEP Showcase: UF EM-CCM Program and Faculty | Department of ...
Department of Emergency Medicine
One of the biggest fears I had prior to accepting the fellowship spot at University of Florida was how the other physicians would welcome emergency medicine residents training in the ICU. From my 2 years here as a fellow and ...
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Emergency Medicine Procedures Refresher for Graduating Class of ...
Department of Emergency Medicine
Jonathan Holloway and Brandon Allen, were both inducted into The Chapman Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Come find out how you can be a medical scribe! (JUNE 3rd & 4th) → ...
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Workshop for EMS Gathering - Emergency Medicine Ireland
Emergency Medicine Ireland
What's the deal? Free, Open-Acces Meducation (FOAM). Ranting and raving on all things Emergency Medicine. Get involved and start ranting and raving back. emergencymedicineireland [at] gmail [dot] com ...
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Management of Pain in the Emergency Department
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ISRN Emergency Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of emergency medicine.
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Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at BIDMC
Medical Education
This three-year program (PGY-1 to PGY-3) is affiliated with Harvard Medical School and is based at BIDMC, a 57000 visit per year Level I trauma center. Residents rotate at Boston Children's Hospital, Brockton Hospital, South Shore Hospital, ...
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Emergency Medicine Literature of Note: More Endovascular Junk ...
Emergency Medicine Literature of Note
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and AHRQ Patient Safety and Quality Keck Fellow. This blog serves primarily as a repository to organize my thoughts ...
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Dr. Brian O'Neil appointed chair of WSU Emergency Medicine
Prognosis
Brian O'Neil, M.D., the Edward S. Thomas Endowed Professor and associate chair of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, has been appointed chair of the ...
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America Spends More on Emergency Medicine Than Previously ...
HealthWorks Collective - The world's best thinkers on healthcare
With 130 million visits, 28% of all acute-care visits, and accounting for nearly half of all admissions, emergency medicine should be expected to represent a large share of health care spending�.More attention should be ...
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Emergency Medicine Literature of Note: Fewer CTs, More ...
Emergency Medicine Literature of Note
This is a retrospective review from the Medical University of South Carolina that describes their implementation of an imaging protocol designed to encourage ultrasound use. They report before-and-after statistics for their ...
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It is National Emergency Medical Services Week! | Mercy Hospital
Mercy Hospital
During National Emergency Medical Services Week, we recognize the tremendous role that EMS practitioners make to improve health in communities across the nation. Emergency care professionals are committed to ...
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Primer for Clinical Research in the Emergency Department
Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog
A Primer for Clinical Researchers in emergency is a FREE a five part series in EMA guest edited by Professor Franz Babl.
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Loyola Physician Named to Board of Illinois College of Emergency ...
Newswise: Latest News
Dr. Mark Cichon, DO, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Loyola University Medical Center, has been named to the board of directors of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP).
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Emergency medicine takes honors at state meeting - The University ...
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
The Department of Emergency Medicine reigned as champions at the Texas College of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting held in Frisco, Texas, April 11-14. The department received two first-place group awards and two individual ...
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What is the treatment for a hordoleum?
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Treatment consists of warm compresses and topical erythromycin. Occasionally, incision and drainage is needed for very painful nodules.
Ghezzi K, Renner GS: Ophthalmologic Emergencies in Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. Edited by Rosen P, 3rd Edition, 1992 p 2435-2437
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Daily Aphorism
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Daily Eponym
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Frontal lobe lesion producing ipsilateral optic atrophy, contralateral papilledema, and anosmia; may be associated with olfactory groove meningioma.
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Historical Terms
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SLIM - Superior colliculi: Lateral geniculate body.
- Inferior colliculi: Medial geniculate body.
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