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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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What are Children’s Lives Worth (to Save)?

EM Literature of Note

Then, they have another set of work looking at the odds ratios for increased poor outcomes at departments whose “readiness” is in the lowest percentiles, and this work is extrapolated to determine the lives saved. Then, they use these data and salary estimates to come up with the institutional costs of readiness.

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10 Tips for New Attending Emergency Physicians

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My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. If you have a difficult outcome, it is helpful to know what risk management support you have at your hospital. The past is the past.

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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. The primary outcome was good neurologic function defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 0-2 at 90 days. References: * Suzuki et al.

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Perspectives – Aortic Laceration in a Rural Mississippi ED: A resident’s response

EMDocs

As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. Did I mention that we only had one unit of blood in the hospital for emergent release? It was an ordinary night, and I was asleep in the on-call room.

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Pigtail Catheter vs Large Bore Chest Tube for Pneumothorax

RebelEM

Heterogeneity was 0% for the primary outcome, and overall heterogeneity was low for secondary outcomes, which increases external validity. While clinically relevant and heavily debated, the primary outcome is disease-oriented and not patient-oriented. Investigators assessed publication bias depicted as a funnel plot. Air is Air?

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

The primary outcome was enrollment in and receiving addiction treatment at 30-days post-randomization. Additional outcomes included self-reported days of illicit opioid use, urine testing for illicit opioids, HIV risk, and use of addiction treatment services. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2021; 78(3): 434-442.[ ROSENBERG ET AL.