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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

However, unlike 80 percent of U.S. However, unlike 80 percent of U.S. While ACEP was doing what EPs do best, identifying and caring for the most emergent member needs, ACEP wasn’t doing what the one quarter of U.S. member associations who saw membership growth during this time were doing … continuing membership recruitment efforts.

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SGEM#327: MAGNUM PA – Nebulized Magnesium for Pediatric Asthma

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

You don the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) wondering if this is COVID. The PRAM was published in 2000 ( Chalut et al ) and validated in 2008 ( Ducharme et al ). Her usual triggers are upper respiratory infections and cats.

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Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID

Sensible Medicine

1 Now, I realize that 2000 words on how COVID affected me, personally and professionally, when I lost only a few patients and no friends or family will seem insensitive, aggravating, and downright infuriating to some. ” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet).