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Point-of-Care Ultrasonography to Confirm Endotracheal Tube Placement: A Review for the Emergency Nurse Practitioner

AENJ: Current Issue

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a useful tool in the emergency department for quick diagnosis and treatment of many emergency conditions (Gonzalez et al., Although several procedures exist to help assess ETT confirmation, all have limitations, are not always reliable, and vary in their degree of accuracy.

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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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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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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.

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: March 4th, 2020 Reference: Radonovich et al. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Date: March 4th, 2020 Reference: Radonovich et al. Paul Norman is a registered nurse working as a frontline emergency nurse in Eastern Health, Newfoundland, Canada. A Randomized Clinical Trial.