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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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![]() 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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![]() Emergency Medicine App palmEM is Updated and Expanded - prMac
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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![]() Hospital emergency departments gaining in importance, study finds - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert (press release)
RAND was asked by the Emergency Medicine Action Fund, a consortium of emergency medicine physician organizations, to develop a more-complete picture of how hospital emergency departments contribute to the U.S. health care system. Researchers ...
ER's Account for Half of Hospital Admissions, Study SaysNew York Times
ER Docs are Key to Reducing Health Care CostsHealthCanal.com
Primary care physicians rely more on ER docs to evaluate their patientsFierceHealthcare
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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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![]() 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
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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![]() Giving up cushy gigs to save lives in mid-air
Fortune
Life Flight team members Joshua Sparks and Ed Shoemaker discuss what it's like to provide emergency medicine on a helicopter. 130517133654-umass-memorial-ed-shoemaker-joshua-sparks-614xa. Ed Shoemaker (left) and Josh Sparks (right). FORTUNE ...
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![]() Emergency Medicine Physicians Issues Statement on St. Rose Dominican ...
Becker's Hospital Review
Editors note: On April 19, Becker's Hospital Review received the following statement from Emergency Medicine Physicians in regards to an article regarding St. Rose Dominican Hospitals' decision to end its contact with EMP. The full-length statement ...
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![]() New medicine | Heart attack app might help diagnose patients before they reach ...
The Courier-Journal
To address the issue, Dr. David Burt, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, challenged a class of systems engineering students to develop an app that could shrink images to make them faster to send, but still ...
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![]() Study finds improved CPR quality saves lives - Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
(Medical Xpress)—Life-saving CPR has been a foundation of emergency medicine for more than a half century. But researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix are continuing to refine the procedure, with a new study concluding ...
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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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![]() Increase in ICU Admissions From Emergency Departments
Doctors Lounge
From 2002/2003 to 2008/2009, there was a considerable increase in the number of patients admitted to intensive care units from emergency departments, according to research published in the May issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. MONDAY, May 20 ...
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![]() Punched and Poked by Their Pride and Joy
New York Times (blog)
One reason: “Kids can be very curious about glasses,” said Dr. Ramona Sunderwirth, pediatric emergency medicine attendee at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. (She speaks from experience; as a toddler, she scratched her mother's cornea.) ...
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![]() Penn Medicine Study Suggests New Role for ECMO in Treating Patients With ...
Penn: Office of University Communications
The new findings were presented today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga. ECMO directly oxygenates and removes carbon dioxide from the blood, and is conventionally used for both respiratory and cardiac failure ...
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![]() Teen thanks paramedics who treated him after gruesome bike accident
Buffalo News
She also noted that her son is now considering a career in emergency medicine. Caide received emergency treatment from Rural/Metro field supervisor Jason Rutecki, paramedic Nicholas Akromas and emergency medical technician Carlina Barbero, who ...
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![]() Locum SPR Emergency Medicine East Midlands
Mediplacements
Job Description. We are recruiting for a flexible SpR, specialising in A&E to cover a 3 months job assignment within a Hospital in East Midlands. The successful SpR will be working within a busy Emergency Medicine department and must have good previous ...
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![]() Use of portable ultrasound machines to assist with IV placement growing
MedCity News
The use of small, portable ultrasound machines to assist with IV placement has been growing in recent years, particularly in large teaching hospitals like Jefferson. New emergency medicine residents now learn to use ultrasound as part of their training ...
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Ann Emerg Med
Comparison of the Unstructured Clinician Gestalt, the Wells Score, and the Revised Geneva Score to Estimate Pretest Probability for Suspected Pulmonary Embolism.
(Feb 2013)
Automated Detection Using Natural Language Processing of Radiologists Recommendations for Additional Imaging of Incidental Findings.
(Mar 2013)
Acad Emerg Med
Providers' perceptions of the factors influencing the implementation of the New York State mandatory HIV testing law in two Urban academic emergency departments.
(Mar 2013)
Multicenter observational study of the development of progressive organ dysfunction and therapeutic interventions in normotensive sepsis patients in the emergency department.
(May 2013)
Emerg Med Clin North Am
Precipitous and difficult deliveries.
(Nov 2012)
Ultrasound in pregnancy.
(Nov 2012)
Am J Emerg Med
Prehospital stroke diagnosis and treatment in ambulances and helicopters-a concept paper.
(Apr 2013)
Characteristics and prognosis in patients with false-positive ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the ED.
(May 2013)
Pediatr Emerg Care
Rectum perforation after broomstick impalement in a 17-year-old: case report and review.
(Apr 2013)
Brief emergency department interventions for youth who use alcohol and other drugs: a systematic review.
(May 2013)
Eur J Emerg Med
Diagnosing pulmonary edema: lung ultrasound versus chest radiography.
(Dec 2012)
Characteristics of patients with acute ischemic stroke intubated before imaging.
(Feb 2013)
JAMA
The role of injection sclerotherapy in the emergency and definitive management of bleeding esophageal varices.
(Mar 1983)
Cardiothoracic emergencies associated with subclavian hemodialysis catheters.
(Nov 1983)
N Engl J Med
A comparison of surfactant as immediate prophylaxis and as rescue therapy in newborns of less than 30 weeks' gestation.
(Mar 1991)
Ruling out acute myocardial infarction. A prospective multicenter validation of a 12-hour strategy for patients at low risk.
(May 1991)
BMJ
Multifactorial intervention after a fall in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia presenting to the accident and emergency department: randomised controlled trial.
(Jan 2003)
Influence of general practice opening hours on delay in seeking medical attention after transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and minor stroke: prospective population based study.
(2008)
Prehosp Emerg Care
A comparison of proximal tibia, distal femur, and proximal humerus infusion rates using the EZ-IO intraosseous device on the adult swine (Sus scrofa) model.
(Apr-Jun 2013)
An Assessment of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Nationally Certified EMS Professionals.
(Feb 2013)
Air Med J
Myocardial infarction complicated by ventricular septal rupture.
(Jan-Feb 2012)
A blueprint for critical care transport research.
(Jan-Feb 2013)
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CBCED Features
Links to other web pages related to Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases.
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
An extensive list of CBRNE topics from the world's largest medical textbooks.
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Cyanides, Cyanogen Chloride
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Cyanides, Hydrogen
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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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Irritants: Cs, Cn, Cnc, Ca, Cr, Cnb, PS
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Lung-damaging Agents, Chloropicrin
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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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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
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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Leader in emergency medicine delivers McNabney Lectureship ...
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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Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: Patwari Academy video ...
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
This blog aims to give you a "behind the scenes" peek into this exciting specialty of Emergency Medicine. We aim to bridge the traditional world of academia and the modern world of social media as medical educators ...
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Emergency Medicine Literature of Note: Negative CTs and Pediatric ...
Emergency Medicine Literature of Note
I am biased � I helped set the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network up back as a research assistant peon before medical school � so it always pleases me to report on PECARN's newest outputs. This is a ...
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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
Anatomy for Emergency Medicine · CEM Anatomy · FOAM Resources · Lytics in stroke · The Numbers and the references · NINDS · SITS & ATLANTIS · ECASS Trials · MAST & ASK & a quote · DIAS-2 & EPITHET · What does it ...
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SGEM#37: TNT (To Not Treat) | The Skeptics Guide to Emergency ...
The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine
The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Meet 'em, greet 'em, treat 'em and street 'em. Home · Content · BEEM · Just for Fun · Additional Resources · About Us · Contact Us · Register · Log In · Home � Featured ...
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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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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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Health News - Hospital Emergency Department Use, Importance ...
Health News from HealthCanal.com
Hospital Emergency Department Use, Importance Rises in U.S. Health Care System.
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LMC opens expanded emergency department | The-Dispatch.com
Local News from The Dispatch
Hospital officials say an emergency department that once displayed a "1980s feel" now boasts nothing of the sort.
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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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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 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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Emergency Medical Services Study Awarded Society for Clinical ...
Arizona BioIndustry Association
In all, RAMPART involved more than 4,000 paramedics, 33 emergency medical services (EMS) agencies and 79 hospitals across the United States to test the efficacy of intramuscular auto-injectors filled with the medication ...
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Emergency Medicine Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant job in ...
Opportunity Health Care
Join a dynamic small hospital in southeastern Illinois that is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join their emergency room staff. They are offering full benefits and a great salary.
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Emergency Medicine Nurse Practitioner Job In Washington ...
Opportunity Health Care
Join a brand new hospital in Eastern Washington practicing as an Emergency Medicine Nurse Practitioner. This is a full time position will full benefits and a competitive salary.
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Why they gave up cushy gigs to save lives in mid-air - Fortune ...
Fortune Management & Career Blog
Life Flight team members Joshua Sparks and Ed Shoemaker discuss what it's like to provide emergency medicine on a helicopter.
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Emergency Medicine Literature of Note: Here Comes Copeptin
Emergency Medicine Literature of Note
Upon presentation to the Emergency Department, 40 were STEMI. 281 patients had cTnI greater than 40ng/L, 97 of whom were subsequently diagnosed with nSTEMI. 1646 had cTnI less than 40ng/L, 19 of whom eventually ...
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EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN NEPAL: AN OVERVIEW | ISTIH
ISTIH
Developing Emergency Medicine in Nepal. Australian and international doctors are engaged in aiding the development of the specialty of emergency medicine within Nepal. Associate Professor Chris Curry, a Fremantle ...
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What drug must be given along with succinylcholine in children, but is usually not required in adults?
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In children, atropine should be administered prior to succinylcholine to prevent the bradycardia that can result in this population. Vagotonic adults should also be pre-treated with atropine.
Tintinalli 3rd ed. p 18
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Daily Aphorism
I have learned to use the word `impossible' with the greatest caution.
Daily Eponym
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Pain in the left shoulder associated with splenic rupture.
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Daily Phobia
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Fear of writing in public.
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PVT Left BATTLE - Phrenic nerve
- Vagus nerve
- Thoracic duct
- Left recurrent laryngeal nerve (not the right)
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- Aortic arch (and its 3 branches)
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