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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. Pediatric Endotracheal Intubations for Airway Management in the Emergency Department.

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EM Mindset: A Woman in the Emergency Department – by a Feminist

SheMD

Yes, I am a woman, yes I am a feminist, yes I am a physician, yes I am in academic leadership for a well-known emergency department… The yes’s are many, but what do I have to say that is so meaningful or useful that people would want to publish it? Sitting down to write this, I cursed myself for volunteering in the first place.

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Incivility in Critical Care:  adding insult to the injuries

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Transformational Leadership and Incivility: A Multilevel and Longitudinal Test. Bad manners in the Emergency Department: Incivility among doctors. Burnout and Workplace Incivility Among Emergency Medical Services Practitioners: A Preliminary Report , Prehospital Emergency Care [Internet] 2023 Okuyama A, Wagner C, Bijnen B.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

used BNP in the emergency department to differentiate heart failure from respiratory causes in infants and children with heart failure and those with no past medical history. 2012; 33:1040–1045. ACCF 2012 Expert Consensus Document on Practical Clinical Considerations in the Interpretation of Troponin Elevations.

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Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

Like many other countries around the world, emergency medicine has proven to be one of the fastest-growing specialties, including in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The official inauguration of ESEM occurred during the 10th Middle East Emergency Medicine Conference in Abu Dhabi on Oct.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

EMDocs

The use of CTA (computed tomography angiography) in the emergency department (ED) has increased dramatically in the past 20 years. 60 Patient Flow Concerns The extent of the impact a CTA head/neck has on patient flow through the department depends on the characteristics of an individual facility. Forman, H. Yaesoubi, R.

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Emergency Physicians of the Sandwich Generation Face Unique Challenges

ACEP Now

11 Other ways to create a supportive organizational culture would be offering comprehensive and affordable mental health resources such as therapy and support groups, providing financial planning assistance, and training emergency department chairs and directors to understand the unique needs of these physicians. Accessed Dec 2024.