Several emergency medicine faculty members contributed to the article titled “The Impact of a Freestanding ED on a Regional Emergency Medical Services System,” published in the August issue of American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The authors report that the opening of the Shore Emergency Center i...
Two students at the University of Maryland School of Medicine spent several weeks in Rocky Mountain National Park last summer, talking with backcountry hikers about their ability to avoid emergencies and their preparedness in case one occurs. Using a written survey, Michael Yue, BA, MS-2, and David ...
Chrissie Tupe, MD, and Mike McCurdy, MD, published a case report (“A Fatal Case of Eczema Herpeticum with Septic Shock Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus”) in the July issue of the American Journal of Critical Care. In collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Medicine, th...
Zach Dezman, MD, MS, and Sarah Sommerkamp, MD, RDMS, published a case report titled “A Woman with Vaginal Bleeding and an Intrauterine Device” in the July issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Their patient, who was pregnant despite her use of an IUD, was found to have a bicornuate ute...
Geriatric Emergencies: A Discussion-Based Review was published by Wiley Blackwell earlier this month. Amal Mattu, MD, served as its editor-in-chief and Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, as an associate editor. Chapters were contributed by Phil Magidson, MD (on the topic of ethical issues and end-of-li...
Laura Diegelmann, MD, RDMS, is a co-author of “Sonography in Hypotension and Cardiac Arrest (SHoC): Rates of Abnormal Findings in Undifferentiated Hypotension and During Cardiac Arrest as a Basis for Consensus on a Hierarchical Point of Care Ultrasound Protocol,” published in the April issue of Cure...
Larry D. Weiss, MD, JD, with colleagues from the University of California Irvine, analyzed records from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) related to allegations of patient dumping (refusing to provide service to patients for financial reasons). They found documentation of more than 6000 inve...
Two emergency medicine faculty members have been elected to officer positions in the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM). Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, was elected as the Academy’s president-elect, and Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang, MD, was elected as its secretary. The purpose of the AWAEM...
R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Hong Kim, MD, MPH, T. Andrew Windsor, MD, and Darren Mareiniss, MD, JD, published the article titled “The Opioid Epidemic in the United States” in the May issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. It includes a review of current laws designed to curb opioid abuse...
Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Ming Yang, MD, and Veena Bhopale, PhD, along with their colleagues from the University of Split in Croatia and the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, published the article titled “The Impact of Predive Exercise on Repetitive SCUBA Diving” in the May issue of Clinical Physiology...