Congratulations to Van Pham, Carina Sorenson, and JV Nable on their publication of a case report in the September issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. They describe the management of a 74-year-old woman who came to the ED because of pain and swelling in her legs. She was ultimately f...
Our department was well represented at the 4th International Emergency Medicine Conference, held in Cape Town in early November. The invited faculty for this 3-day event, sponsored by the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, included Drs. Michael Bond, Ken Butler, Emilie Calvello, Jon Mark Hi...
Michael E. Winters, MD, is the lead author of new AAEM clinical practice guidelines regarding the ED management of patients with angioedema associated with ACE inhibitors. The guidelines were formulated after consideration of 562 papers on the use of ACE inhibitors, which led to a subset of 27 that ...
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Browne on his receipt of the 2013 Health Services Leadership Award from the Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. This award is presented in honor of outstanding work in the medical community and as gratitude for support of Special Needs Scouting in Maryla...
Dr. Amal Mattu is the recipient of the 2013 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education from the Amercian College of Emergency Physicians. This prestigious award was presented to Amal during this year's Scientfic Assembly, held in Seattle in October. Recipients of this award are recognized and h...
Faculty members Mike Abraham, Fermin Barrueto, Dan Lemkin, and Jon Mark Hirshon published an article titled "Propofol for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Reduced Dedicated Emergency Nursing Time While Maintaining Safety in a Community Emergency Department," in the September issue of The ...
Emilie Calvello, MD, and Christian Theodosis, MD, guest edited the November issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, on the topic of dangerous fevers in the emergency department. Contributors include Jennifer Reifel Salzberg, MD, MPH, Andrea Tenner, MD, MPH, Bryan Hayes, PharmD, Joe Mar...
Congratulations to Brian J. Browne, MD, and Michael E. Winters, MD, for being named "Top Docs in Emergency Medicine" in the November issue of Baltimore Magazine. Recipients of this honor are chosen through a survey of 10,000 physicians in the Baltimore area, asking where they would send a ...
Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, and Tom Chiccone, MD, were faculty members for the 8th Annual Eastern Shore Emergency and Critical Care Symposium, held in Easton on October 3. Dr. Lawner’s topic was prehospital trauma resuscitation, and Dr. Chiccone, from Memorial Hospital at Easton, spoke on blast injuries....
Amal Mattu, MD, was the keynote speaker (and the only speaker from the United States) at the "Emergency Medicine Update‒Europe" conference, held in Haro, Spain, in late September. He presented three lectures: “Syncope Made Simple,” “Dysrhythmias in the ED,” and “Emergency Care of the Eld...