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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

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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Episode 23 - Influenza Diagnosis and Management in the Emergency Department

EB Medicine

Jeff: In fact, a meta-analysis on vaccine effectiveness from 2004-2015 found that the pooled effectiveness against influenza B was 54%, against the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 was 61%, and against the H3N2 virus was 33%. Nachi: It’s also worth noting, that most communities have strategic plans in the event of a major influenza outbreak.