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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

He completed residency in emergency medicine through Emory while training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, Dr. McCormick served as an emergency physician at Northside Hospital. In the Atlanta region, we had AMC, one of the largest hospitals in the region closed. Overburden the other hospital systems.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Four level-1 US trauma centers participated in the study where the inclusion criteria were trauma patients who were within 2 hours of their injury and were transported to the trauma center from either the field or another hospital. The primary outcome was head injury-related death in-hospital within 28 days of injury.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

Hospital crowding and ED boarding have been longstanding and persistent crises for more than two decades, yet have progressively worsened over the COVID-19 pandemic.2 Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings. Here’s what the government can do to impact the hospital crowding and ED boarding crisis.