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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

The hospital leadership, medical-school leadership, and ED faculty and staff partnered to engage in a radical re-engineering project they aptly named Excellence Driven. While most academic EDs have lost pediatric volume, the UVA ED continues to see almost 20 percent pediatric patients.

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February 2024 News from the College

ACEP Now

Be Prepared for All Pediatric Challenges Whether you want to brush up on your pediatric EM skills or take your dual-boarded training to the next level, the Advanced Pediatric EM Assembly helps you be prepared for any pediatric patient you may treat. Learn more at acep.org/accelerate.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

ACEP Now: Dr. Aisha Terry, has focused on the pipeline of leadership for the College this year. It’s amazing, like being able to be calm and teach a resident while someone’s actively coding in front of you. MCCORMICK: I really love pediatrics, I love working with kids. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Read on to go from bread-and-butter pediatric blood work to answer the question – what’s up with troponin, lactate, d-dimer, and BNP in kids? This is especially true in children – the majority of pediatric ambulatory visits do not require blood work to make a decision about acute care. The punchline is, use a pediatric reference.

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ACEP Board Meeting Tackles Current Issues, Practice Trends

ACEP Now

The inaugural ACEP Accelerate conference – which combined the ED Director’s Academy, the Advanced Pediatrics EM Assembly, Reimbursement & Coding, and Teaching Fellowship—took place in Arlington, TX in March 2023.

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What is Twice-Exceptionality?

Pediatric Education

Discussion “Gifted individuals are those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude (defined as an exceptional ability to reason and learn) or competence (documented performance or achievement in top 10% or rarer) in one or more domains.” D’Alessandro, MD Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa

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

ACEP Now

emergency department deserves access to an emergency physician no matter their zip code. From this experience, I demonstrated the leadership skills to facilitate dialogue and navigate debate when viewpoints diverge. Three take home points for what I believe. There is no substitution for the physician led team. Every patient in a U.S.