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SGEM#286: Behind the Mask – Does it need to be an N95 mask?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JAMA 2019 The Respiratory Protection Effectiveness Clinical Trial (ResPECT) Guest Skeptics: Dr. Christopher Patey is an Assistant Professor with Memorial University Medical School in St. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Date: March 4th, 2020 Reference: Radonovich et al. A Randomized Clinical Trial.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

How does that apply to the role of the board certified emergency physician? Fundamentally, I believe every patient coming to an emergency department is best served by care delivered by board certified emergency physicians. When those same fundamentals done right achieve great success, they aren’t little at all.

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Troubleshooting Foley Caths and Suprapubic Caths

Taming the SRU

Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing. link] doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-229855. The western journal of emergency medicine. Journal of emergency nursing. Critical urologic skills and procedures in the emergency department. Emergency medicine clinics of North America. 2017;44(4):368-373.

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The Pause- a recognition of a life

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In most Emergency Departments, staff are allotted little of that scarce resource, time, to begin processing what has just occurred. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ 23 (2), pp.

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The Emergency Department Admitting Team: A Crisis Response to an Unprecedented Surge of Critically Ill Patients During COVID-19

EM Updates

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is Brooklyn’s largest hospital, an academic quaternary care center with, in normal times, 711 total beds, 66 intensive care beds, and an Emergency Department that treats approximately 120,000 patients per year. On March 9, the first patient with a novel coronavirus infection was admitted to MMC.

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SGEM#253: Everybody’s Working on the Weekend

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: April 17th, 2019 Reference: Little et al. Injury 2019 Guest Skeptic: Alison Armstrong is a Certified Emergency Nurse, Trauma Program Coordinator and TNCC Course Director. This was a special episode of the SGEM done live at the Talk Trauma 2019 Conference help in London, Ontario.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 Similarly, nurses could lead their own teams with these new roles. Acad Emerg Med.