ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

By attending networking events, conferences, and regional meetings, prospective members will have the opportunity to connect with other emergency physicians, share best practices, and collaborate on research or quality improvement projects. However, unlike 80 percent of U.S.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In this special edition EM Cases podcast Dr. Megan Landes, a Global Health expert, researcher and EM educator runs us through how to best practically prepare our EDs for an outbreak like Coronavirus. The post Preparation for Emergency Infectious Outbreak in your ED – Coronavirus appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Bordetella pertussis was isolated in 1906 by Belgian researchers, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, I hopefully I pronounced them right, but they’re long gone, so they won’t be mad at me,, leading to the development of a whole cell pertussis vaccine in the 1940s. Pertussis has been recognized since the 16th century.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet). Applying evidence-based medicine (incorporating medical knowledge, clinical experience, and data from systematic research) to people I knew well, made me recognize that what I do, and what makes my job satisfying, had a role.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the emergency department, we were working our way through tonnes of PPE, masks, aprons, and gloves. And so I started doing some research. Amidst tonnes of PPE, hot zones, cold zones, cancelled clinics and social distancing, mental health presentations to the ED were exploding – lockdown was devastatingly affecting our young people.

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FEMinEM

JANUARY 26, 2021

We couldn’t exactly follow the advice of staying home or avoiding sick people, and a vaccine felt like an added layer of protection needed to bolster our PPE. Maybe the researchers did have my best interest in mind. So I did a little research of my own, and found that the history of exclusion went back decades.

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