On September 22 and 23, a team from the Department of Emergency Medicine competed in Runragnar (www.runragnar.com), a running event that started in Cumberland, Maryland, and finished in Washington, DC. Each participant ran a leg of the journey, ranging from 11 to 26 miles, while the other team memb...
Kristin Cioffi, BA, Human Resources Manager in the administrative office of the Department of Emergency Medicine, recently passed the certification examination of the Society for Human Resource Management. The 4-hour exam includes 95 knowledge-based questions, 65 situational judgement items, and 30 ...
T. Andrew Windsor, MD, and Kami M. Hu, MD, both collaborating with Amal Mattu, MD, are the lead authors of two chapters in Observation Medicine: Principles and Protocols, published by Cambridge University Press in September. Dr. Windsor wrote on the topic of syncope and Dr. Hu on stress testing.
Amal Mattu, MD, co-authored the article titled “The Differential Diagnosis of Wide QRS Complex Tachycardia,” published in the October issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (35[10]:1525-9). He collaborated on this work with William Brady, MD, and John Ferguson, MD, from the University o...
Sarah Dubbs, MD, and Amal Mattu, MD, are co-authors of the case report titled “Prinzmetal Angina (Coronary Vasospasm) Associated with 5-Fluorouracil Chemotherapy,” which was published in the July issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (35[7]:1038.e3-5).
A commentary by Amal Mattu, MD, was published in the Emergency Medicine Viewpoints column of Medscape on September 15 (www.medscape.com/viewarticle/885676). Titled “Painless Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department,” it summarizes the article by Kit Ling Fan and Ling Pong Leung, from the Univer...
Michael Witting, MD, MS, Siamak Moayedi, MD, Latoya Brown, BS, and Ammar Ismail, MBBS, RDMS, published the article titled “Predictors and Delays Associated with the Need for Advanced Techniques for Intravenous Access” in the August issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine (53[2]:172-177).
Semhar Tewelde, MD, and Amal Mattu, MD, with William Brady, MD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, published “Pitfalls in Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Low-Risk Chest Pain” in the June issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2017;18[4]:601-...
R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, is a guest editor of this month's issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, on the topic of observation medicine. He co-authored the preface with his colleague Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA, from Harvard Medical School and the article titled “Care of Acute Gastroint...
Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, and Amal Mattu, MD, with Richard Body, MB ChB, PhD, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, published the article titled “Utility of the History and Physical Examination in the Detection of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Emergency Department Patients,” in the June issue of the Western ...