Mike Winters, MD, Joe Martinez, MD, and Haney Mallemat, MD, along with Bill Brady, MD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, published a review of recent critical care articles, covering the topics of cardiac arrest, sepsis, pulmonary embolism, ultrasound, and acute ischemic stroke. Th...
Ben Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, was a faculty member for the Maryland Resuscitation Academy, held on May 18 and 19 in Columbia. The goal of the 2-day conference, co-hosted by the Howard County Department of Fire Rescue Services and MIEMSS, was to provide education that will optimize outcomes after sudden...
Michael Witting, MD, MS, and Mak Moayedi, MD, published an article titled “Incidence of Advanced Intravenous Access in 2 Urban EDs” in the May 2015 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Their co-authors include Bryan Stover, MD, and Ashley Miller, BA, who were students at the Universi...
Amal Mattu, MD, received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors in April. The award recognizes Dr. Mattu's success in the development of enduring educational materials, specifically his publication of ECGs for the Emergency Physician (with sales o...
Terry Mulligan, DO, MPH, along with colleagues from the United Kingdom, Australia, and other medical centers in the United States, published an article in the May issue of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, which presents a framework for a continuing professional development curriculum. The...
Barrie Bostick, MD, Melissa Rice, MD, and Ashley Strobel, MD, all EM/Peds residents, participated in the Teddy Bear Clinic at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on Saturday, May 30. Dozens of children and their teddy bears experienced the full emergency department treatment, from registration and triag...
Terry Mulligan, DO, MPH, is this year’s recipient of the International Emergency Medicine Leadership Award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. The award honors Dr. Mulligan’s 15 years of leadership, service, and scholarship in the field of international emergency medicine and global acu...
Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, published a letter in the April issue of JAMA Neurology, in which he discussed the methodology used by a group of German physicians in their study of the dispatch of a stroke emergency mobile unit and use of prehospital thrombolysis. Dr. Fischer's comments can be read at www.n...
You can read summaries of recent publications on the practice of emergency medicine in the current issue of the International Journal of Emergency Medicine. That issue contains a compilation by Drs. Maite Huis in 't Veld, Tu Carol Nguyen, Joe Martinez, and Amal Mattu, in which they summarize 33 arti...
Bryan Hayes, PharmD, is the lead author of the article titled “Social Media in the Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum: Social Media Responses to the Residents’ Perspective Article,” which has been published online by Annals of Emergency Medicine. The article is highlighted as an Editor’s Choice...