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Communic8: Eight Universal Leadership Lessons from the Children’s Emergency Department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The Childrens Emergency Department is a busy, challenging, and dynamic environment. They involve a mixture of clinical, communication, and leadership traits. Here are eight key leadership lessons inspired by real-life interactions and reflections from Paediatric Emergency Care 1.

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SGEM #425: Are You Ready for This? Pediatric Readiness of Emergency Departments

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

National Assessment of Pediatric Readiness of US Emergency Departments during the Covid-19 Pandemic. July 2023 Date: Dec 11, 2023 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rachel Hatcliffe is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Are general emergency departments ready to care for children?

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The Medical Director’s Role in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs

ACEP Now

You work as the medical director at a suburban, community emergency department (ED). At your monthly meeting with the chief medical officer (CMO) and chief nursing officer (CNO), they inform you of the hospitals plan to start a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program. As expected, you have several questions.

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Getting everyone to sing in harmony

Don't Forget the Bubbles

This talk, from Clare Skinner, on music, medicine and leadership , comes from our 2022 DFTB conference in Brisbane. Facilitator-in-chief’ is my role when leading the ED Musos virtual choir and orchestra, and this also applies to my job in the hospital as Director of the Emergency Department. Think about the composer.

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to overdose deaths and taxed constrained Emergency Department (ED) resources, it has also clarified the important role that emergency physicians have in expanding access to life-saving medications to treat opioid use disorder. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Hawk, et al.

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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

In 1901, UVA opened its first hospital with 25 beds and three operating rooms. The emergency department (ED) at UVA was rebuilt in 2019 and the department had not fully optimized its operations when COVID-19 hit. The post Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department appeared first on ACEP Now.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. Pediatric Endotracheal Intubations for Airway Management in the Emergency Department.