Steven J. White, MD, MS, an attending physician in the ED at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton, has published a letter titled "Auscultation Without Contamination: A Solution for Stethoscope Use With Personal Protective Equipment," in Annals of Emergency Medicine. He des...
Amal Mattu, MD, was the keynote speaker at the 8th Annual Risk Management Summit sponsored by Emergent Medicine Associates in Los Angeles. During the conference, held in early February, Dr. Mattu presented lectures titled "Winning at Failure! Modern Management of Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema,&qu...
R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, participated in the evaluation of a simulation training program designed to enhance interprofessional education and collaboration among nursing and pharmacy students. The program and the results of its assessment are described by Dr. Wilkerson and his colleages in the School...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, is a co-author of the article tltled "Hospital Discharge Instructions: Comprehension and Compliance Among Older Adults," which was published in the November 2014 issue of The Journal of General Internal Medicine. By contacting a study group of 650 people age...
Steven Tropello, MD, MS, presented a poster titled "Coaptive Ultrasound: A Novel Procedural Technique Applicable in Acute Care Settings" at the 44th Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, held in Phoenix in mid-January. Haney Mallemat, MD, participated in the study descr...
Drs. Ashley Strobel, Daniel Gingold, and Emilie Calvello published a case report titled “TTP Presenting as Refractory Hypoglycemia in a Patient with Thromboangiitis Obliterans” in the December issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (www.ajemjournal.com).
Drs. Mike Winters, Joe Martinez, and Haney Mallemat, along with Dr. William Brady from the University of Virginia, are the authors of a review of significant critical care articles published during 2013. Topics include cardiac arrest, sepsis, intracerebral hemorrhage, transfusion, pulmonary embolism...
Dr. Kinjal Sethuraman and Dr. Semhar Tewelde presented the results of their studies of gender-specific aspects of trauma resuscitation and ischemic heart disease, respectively, at the consensus conference titled “Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How ...
Our department is once again well represented on the pages of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. The November issue, on the topic of critical care, was co-edited by Haney Mallemat, MD. Articles were contribued by Drs. David Wacker and Mike Winters ("Shock"), Dr. Michael Scott wit...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, is a co-author of the article titled "Using Antibiograms to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Skilled Nursing Facilities," published in the October issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.