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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

Creation of an accurate database of emergency physicians living and working within a state, as well as a network of each states’ EM groups and ED medical directors would help chapter leaders disseminate relevant information, strengthen advocacy efforts, and plan regional solutions summits to focus on unique challenges.

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

Sensible Medicine

Owing to a collaboration with the Wuhan University Medical School, I had visited Wuhan in 2008 and 2017. ” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet). I made the mistake of feeling that I needed to do something new rather than apply what I do well to a novel situation.

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Episode 23 - Influenza Diagnosis and Management in the Emergency Department

EB Medicine

Jeff: Of note, EMS providers should use face masks themselves and place them on patients as well. Jeff: Alright, so now that the EMS crew, wearing proper PPE of course, has delivered the patient, who is also wearing a mask, to the ED, we can begin our ED H&P. In 2007-2008, an oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 strain emerged globally.