Michael Witting, MD, MS, and Siamak Moayedi, MD, CDEM, published the article “Advanced Intravenous Access: Technique Choices, Pain Scores, and Failure Rates in a Local Registry” in the March issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Their investigation, supported by a grant from the Maryl...
Douglas Sward, MD, Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, and Robert Rosenthal, MD, published the article “Carbon Monoxide and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Case Reports” in the January/February 2016 issue of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Terry Mulligan DO, MPH, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine at the organization’s 22nd Annual Scientific Assembly, held in Las Vegas in late February. He also chairs the organization’s International Emergency Medicine Committee and Government Affairs C...
Hong Kim, MD, MPH, is the lead author of the article titled “Reversal of Opioid-Induced Ventilatory Depression Using Low-Dose Naloxone (0.04 Mg): A Case Series,” published in the March 2016 issue of The Journal of Medical Toxicology. His co-author is Lewis Nelson, MD, from New York University School...
R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, and Bryan D. Hayes, PharmD, published a letter in this month's issue of Clinical Toxicology. They were reacting to a case description in the October issue of the same journal, in which a patient’s uvular edema was linked to MDMA and treated with icatibant. Drs. Wilkerson and...
Amal Mattu, MD, is a co-author of the article titled “The Electrocardiogram in the ACS Patient: High-Risk Electrocardiographic Presentations Lacking Anatomically Oriented ST-Segment Elevation,” published in the March issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. In this article, Dr. Mattu and...
Mike Abraham, MD, is the lead author of an article on the diagnosis and treatment of influenza, published in the March issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine. The report was approved by the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. One of Mike's co-authors on t...
The February issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine contains an analysis of factors influencing emergency department (ED) performance, based on a national data set compiled by the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance. The authors are Laura Pimentel, MD, CPME, and Jon Mark Hirshon,...
Ben Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, and Kevin Seaman, MD (Executive Director, Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems), were panelists at "EMS Today: The JEMS Conference and Exhibition," which was held in Baltimore in late February. Their topic was the emerging public health threa...
Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Ming Yang, MD, Research Associate, Kevin Yu, MD, Lead Research Specialist, Veena Bhopale, MPhil, PhD, Laboratory Manager, and Svitlana Kovtun, MD, Research Specialist, in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with colleagues from the Perelman School of Medicine, Pen...