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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

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. However, unlike 80 percent of U.S. member associations who saw membership growth during this time were doing … continuing membership recruitment efforts.

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Preparation for Emergency Infectious Outbreak in your ED – Coronavirus

Emergency Medicine Cases

Although the mortality rate in patients with Coronavirus in this outbreak is less than 1% (which pales in comparison to Ebola or SARS), historically these types of outbreaks have occured every 5-6 years (SARS 2003, HINI 2009, Ebola 2014, Coronavirus 2020), so they are somewhat predictable and we should know how to prepare for them in our EDs.