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2022
January/February
Director’s Corner: How to Quit Your Job
7 Dangerous Physician Employment Contract Terms
Night Shift: Suicidal Ideations
2021
Director’s Corner: Hitting the Mark
Pros and Cons: Giddy Up on Ivermectin?
Vasculitis after COVID-19 Vaccination
Information Gap
Night Shift: Chaos
Rolling With COVID-19 Vaccinations
Crash Cart: Llama antibodies fight COVID
Gut Feeling
Optimizing Your RVUs and Laceration Repair
Navigating a 99-Year-Old Through our Health Care System
EM Coach: Solving a Rash of Problems
EPM Talk Ep. 49 – Khan Siddiqui, MD of Hyperfine
Pros and Cons: Cancel Social Media?
Unlocking the Mystery behind Chronic Pelvic Pain
Train Yourself: Getting a Hand on Chest Tube Thoracostomy
ABEM and COVID-19 Misinformation
Night Shift – Due Process Demands More
Heart treatment taking SCAPE
EM Coach: It’s Cold Outside
Director’s Corner: Time to call it Quits?
Not so BaSICS?
More Than Medicine: Being responsive instead of reactive
Pros and Cons: The Mask Debate
Train Yourself: Incision and Drainage
Asymptomatic Hypertension = all about the follow-up
More Disruption Please: ACEP Digital Health Innovators
D50 or D10 to Treat Hypoglycemia?
Crash Cart: Amazon Alexa sued for HIPAA violations
Opioids in the ED
Night Shift: I Could be Wrong
Director’s Corner: What Should I be Looking for in a Job? Part II
EPM Talk Ep. 48 – Adam Power of REBOA
Senate Bill 610— Lorna’s Legacy
Is Cooling no Longer Cool?
MedForums Crowdsources Knowledge
Nebulized Ketamine for Pain Management in the ED
Director’s Corner: What Should I be Looking for in a Job? Part I
EM Coach: Bad Bite
Ultrasound: Looks can be deceiving
Night Shift: The Second Wave
In Defense of Direct Laryngoscopy
Video Laryngoscopy First and Foremost
More Disruption Please: ACEP20 Medical Device Innovators
Complications of Regional Anesthesia
More Than Medicine: Giving more on Empty
EM Coach: Get Pumped!
Who gets the platelets?
Night Shift: Reality Testing
$26M Judgment Against EmCare in Wrongful Termination Lawsuit
Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Access: Part 2
Ticking Away
CCTA vs. Invasive Coronary Angiography in NSTEMI
Director’s Corner: Succession Planning
Train Yourself: The Inside Scoop on Removing Foreign Bodies
Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Access: Part 1
You gotta help us doc!
Oh, MYositis!
EM Coach: Getting on my nerves
Projecting the Future of Emergency Physician Workforce
Crash Cart: Drinking Cow Urine Prevents COVID?
Director’s Corner: Summer Reading
The Different Stages of an ER Doc’s Career: Part I
Train Yourself: Simple Strategy for Suturing Setup
Best Short-Term Cycle for Children Facing Pneumonia?
EM Coach: Full-body Jerking
Crash Cart: Another COVID-19 Myth Dies the Death
GCS Less Than 8? Then Intubate!
Director’s Corner: Navigating Staffing Shortage
Night Shift: Hope I don’t see you anymore
Pott’s Puffy Tumor in an elderly woman
Stuck at the top of his Mouth
Puff Puff Passing Asthma Regimen
EPM Talk Ep. 46 – Dom Bagnoli of USACS
EPM Talk Ep. 47 – Andreas Frank of Hillrom
Diminishing the Pain
It’s OK to be not OK
Director’s Corner: 12 Months of COVID
Ensuring You’re Insured
Radiation and Risk
Crash Cart: Censorship coming for medical professionals
More Than Medicine: Changing Culture Doesn’t have to be Chaotic
Night Shift: Saturated
EPM Talk Ep. 44 – What’s Your Institutional Protocol to Get the Clot Out for VTE?
EPM Talk: Ep. 45 – Jeannette Wolfe on COVID gender impact
Conventional Troponin Testing in the Evaluation of Chest Pain
George Has My Heart Racing
To the ambucycle!
Pop Goes the Shoulder
EPM Talk Ep. 43 – Joe Anderson of Reflex Protect
So TXA Doesn’t Stop Everything that Bleeds?
Night Shift: A Really Unusual Year
It’s Not Just About Wearing Masks
Big Head, Big Problems!
EM Coach: The Pathology of DVT
Finding the BEST Solution
Death From a Stuffy Nose
EPM Talk Ep. 40 – CLEAN3 Trial with Prof. Mimoz
EPM Talk Ep. 41 – Dr. Lisa Moreno of AAEM
EPM Talk Ep. 42 – Mick Connors of Anytime Pediatrics
Breaking through the blockage
Diagnosing without formal imagery
‘Poppers’ while at a nightclub
Director’s Corner: VIP Patients in the ER
COVID allowed us to see the future quicker
Humanism in Death
Universal Imaging for All?
Night Shift: Breaking Guidelines
Taking the Pain Out of Clinician Licensing
Train Yourself: Lateral Canthotomy
Diagnosing Necrotizing Fasciitis
COVID-19 can offer some silver linings
Night Shift: How do I get you out of here?
RX Pad: Allergy Sabotage
More Than Medicine: Just a dose of aggression is too much
‘The Future of Emergency Medicine is Bright’
EM Coach: Stuck through the hand
Director’s Corner: Coping with cut hours
Challenges with the DIFOCCULT Trial
Sometimes it isn’t the Heart
Crash Cart: Earwax used to check hormone stress levels
What does 2021 hold for EM?
EPM Talk Ep. 37 – CT Chat with Dr. Jarvis of Abbott Labs
Remote CIED Interrogator Usage in the Emergency Department
Director’s Corner: Reducing the Length of Stay
Deciphering MCP Joint Deformity
The CODA Trial — Antibiotics vs. Appendectomy
Another Option?
Making a Stronger Hero (Act)
High-Yield RVU Generation in Emergency Medicine
A Tool For Risk Stratifying Admitted COVID-19 Patients
Night Shift: Y2K turns 21
Invincible no more!
Risk Management: Focusing on Fingers
Probing for cellulitis
Telemedicine in the Age of COVID-19
2020
EPM Talk Ep. 39 – A Safer Solution
Re-Analysis, Reversal and Reflection
Your Critical Care Reimbursement and COVID-19
EM Coach: Fever, malaise, rash and more
Director’s Corner: Filling the Call Out
Pandemic protection
Night Shift: A Rush to Judgment
Answering the call for stoicism
STEMI Management in COVID-19 Times
Splenic Infarction After Recovery From COVID-19
EPM Talk Ep. 38 – COVID-19: Frontline physicians produce frontline solution
Crash Cart: Nursing Homes Oust Unwanted Patients
Not So Soft
Taking the bite out of epulis
A Brief History of the Endotracheal Tube
Baloxavir for Household Influenza Prophylaxis?
Mitigating adverse job actions due to COVID-19 part 2
Director’s Corner: Connect for Your Team’s Satisfaction
The Oseltamivir Debacle
EM Quiz: Ill-appearing, minimally responsive patient
Like Drinking from a Firehose
EPM Talk Ep. 36 – When Minutes Matter: Dr. Este O’Daniell on Syndromic Infectious Disease Testing for Meningitis
The HALT-IT Trial – TXA in Acute GI Bleeds
EM Coach: CT angiogram indications
Where have all of our emergency room patients gone?
Crash Cart: Occult Ingested Foreign Body
Director’s Corner: COVID-era Leadership Part 2
The 65 Trial: Less is More?
Saving a Life by a Nose: Intranasal Naloxone
Night Shift: Fast Track
Fundamental Attribution Error
EPM Talk Ep. 35 – Weathering the ED Volume Storm with DuvaSawko
EPM Talk Ep. 34 – Putting it Together with Pulsara
EPM Talk Podcast Ep. 33 – Combating Viral Transmission with the Aerosolve Helmet
Crash Cart: Scent Dogs Detecting COVID-19
An Elegantly Simple Solution to Protection
EM Coach: Sicker than Sick
Can they do That?
Night Shift: Lone Ranger
Winter is Coming
Why I opted to work for a humanitarian organization in a war-torn country
Burnout from Flame to Ashes
In the Emergency Department after the Beirut Blast
So you’ve been sprayed and gassed…
RX Pad: Mad as a hatter or right on?
Director’s Corner: Leadership in the Age of COVID Part 1 of 2
EPM Talk Ep. 32 – Healing with Hemigard
COVID-19 Related Respiratory Failure: A Non-Invasive Approach
Syndromic Testing for Meningitis/Encephalitis: A Game Changer
Crash Cart: How Accurate is Dr. Google?
Saving Vena Amoris
Patient Volume amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic
Searching for Therapeutic Options to Fight SARS-CoV-2
Director’s Corner: I Just Want my Weekend!
A Signal of Hope?
Night Shift: The Right Kind of Distance
EM Coach: Sudden onset chest pain
No, it’s not a Migraine
Three Traits of Inclusion
EPM Talk Ep. 31 – Finding the range with Wilson Electronics’ Fleet Signal Boosters
EPM Talk Ep. 30 – ED Pregnancy Perspective with Elizabeth Clayborne
EPM Talk Ep. 29 – Getting Relief with Ring Rescue
She’s too old for that Diagnosis!
COVID-19, Remdesivir and the new Tamiflu
Crash Cart: Providers Rally in Support of Black Lives Matter Movement
Director’s Corner – Who works the COVID Unit?
EM Coach: Treating Testicular Pain and Swelling
Addressing ED Workplace Violence
Trauma Transfer Pearls
Thank You for Your Service
Night Shift: Game Face
EPM Talk. Ep 28 – He Said, She Said with Jeannette Wolfe
EPM Talk Ep. 27 – Honed in with Hardy Diagnostics
Looking into intraocular eye pressure
A Deadly Shower
Coping with COVID-19 in Iran
Communication Matters Even More With COVID-19
Pregnant on the Frontlines
When to Choose the Infant Approach
Director’s Corner: Is it advisable to teach my replacement? Part 2
In Custody with COVID-19
He Stuck a Piece of String Where???
EPM Talk. Ep 26 – Getting Beyond Lucid with Jonathon Feit
EPM Talk Ep. 25 – Syndromic Testing a Game Changer for Meningitis/Encephalitis
EPM Talk Ep. 24 – Tuned in with Sound Physicians
Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine: Past, Present…Future?
Spanish Influenza – Looking at a Pandemic From 100 Years ago
More Disruption Please: ACEP19 Medical Device Innovators
Take a Deep Breath and Scan
Time to get hyped about the Hyperion Trial?
Hepatic Encephalopathy: More Than Just a Change in Mental Status
Night Shift: Shared Decision Making
EM Coach Team: The COVID-19 Bounce Back
COVID and Immunity From Liability Under the Federal PREP Act
Is the Use of Peripheral Vasopressors Safe?
Director’s Corner: Staffing Parameters in the time of COVID
April
EPM Talk Ep. 23 – Candid COVID-19 Convo with Salim Rezaie
EPM Talk Ep. 22 – Night Shift: Shared Decision Making
EPM Talk Ep. 21 – COVID-19 PPE need with Amer Aldeen of USACS
EPM Talk Ep. 20 – Back to School with EM Coach’s Andrew Phillips
EPM Talk – Ep. 19 – He Said, She Said with Jeannette Wolfe
Bring ’em All video spotlights frontline medical workers
Tackling and Treating COVID-19
VIDEO: Take COVID-19 Seriously
Places We Go: El Paso, Texas
Hoffman La Roche Sued for $1.5 Billion Over Tamiflu Claims
It Just Takes a Spark…
Treating WPW Syndrome
Night Shift: Reassurance
Telemed’s Legacy as Connected Care
Director’s Corner: Should I be teaching my replacement?
Pressors for Hemorrhagic Shock
EPM Talk – Ep. 16 – He Said, She Said with Jeannette Wolfe
Night Shift: The Dark Ages
Balance Billing: The Surprise Insurance Gap
Debunking Coronavirus Myths vs. Truth
EPM Talk Ep. 14 – Putting a T-RING on it With Bill Green
EPM Talk Ep. 18 – John Martin on the Butterfly Ultrasound’s Impact on COVID-19
Sample ED Coronavirus Discharge Instructions
EPM Talk Ep. 17 – The Plasters Explore the Tech Side of Coronavirus
Places We Go: Borderland—El Paso, Las Cruces and Ciudad Juarez
Omadacycline, NEJM and Non-Inferiority Studies
EM Monthly Quiz: Severe Testicular Pain
CorePendium: An Emergency Medicine Origin Story
RX Pad: When push comes to shove
Work-Life, Health & Happiness: Is the Perfect Mix Possible?
Modified Valsalva Maneuver for SVT
Director’s Corner: Time to join the committee?
Is Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport the Future of EMS?
It’s a Wonderful Home Dad Life
EPM Talk Ep. 15 – Getting on Call With Tim Peck
Peeling away the challenge of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
EPM Monthly Quiz: Living with altered mental status
More Disruption Please: ACEP19 Digital Health Innovators
Customer Service or Caring for the Patient? They are the same thing!
Leading innovation
Back Pain in the Elderly
Director’s Corner: Discharging PE Patients
Handling Pediatric Mass Casualty
Just One Pill Can Kill
EPM looks to the future of EM in 2020
Places we go: Rwanda & Burundi
My Hometowns: A Medical Student’s Experience Working at the US-Mexico Border
Useful Keys to Avoid Litigation
Night Shift: Tattletale
Meaningful Use, 10 years Later Part II
EM Monthly Quiz – Procedural sedation medications
The Horse is Out of the Barn
An ounce of PreVent-ion
Second Best: The EcLiPSE and ConSEPT trials
2019
2018
2017
2016
All in the Wrist
Diagnosing Spinal Epidural Abscesses
It’s Time to Embrace TXA for Traumatic Bleeds
Lasix: The Basics of Furosemide
Anger and the Undoing of Great Physicians
Pelvic and Low Back Pain Post Abortion
As Temperatures Rise, Zika Looms
EPs Stand Poised at the Center of the Telemedicine Revolution
Get A Headstart On Critical Medico-Legal Lessons
The Fault in Our (Three) Stars: Understanding The New Hospital Quality Star Rating
Sepsis Gets an Upgrade With SOFA/qSOFA
Was This Care Reasonable? You’re the Judge
Women, Take the Stage!
Five 11th-Hour Tax Questions Answered
The CDC Weighs In With Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Norovirus: That Bug Gets Around
The Nine Hand-Offs And What They Say About You
EM’s Elder Salesman
Why You Should Stop Overusing Foley Catheters
More Needles: Femoral Nerve Anesthesia
Unlock the Value of Free-Standing Emergency Centers
Losing Our Way On Route 66
What’s Your ‘One Thing’?
When Burnout Strikes, Light Your Own Fire
How to Develop a Successful Observation Unit
Get Your Ducks In A Row
Pediatric Skull Fractures: When to Admit
Octreotide in the ED
Europe’s Winter of Discontent
When the Curtain is Drawn: How to Handle Accusations of Professional Misconduct
Speaking Out About the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan
PA Training and Oversight: A Model Worth Copying?
Interactive Ultrasound: Beneath The Surface
Astute Diagnosis of Phalangeal Injuries Can Prevent Lasting Damage
Hydroxocobalamin: Turning Cyanide into Vitamin B12
Interactive ECG: A Study in ST Elevation
When Can Emergency Physicians Call In Sick?
In 2016, Start by Taking Stock
Tintinalli: What I’m reading now
Goodbye Standard of Care, Hello Reasonable Practice
In UK, Emergency Physicians Strike Back
EMP Makes Expansion Bid by Creating USACS
AAEM Creates a ‘Physician Group’ to Bolster Small Practices
Assessing Fever in Returning Travelers: A Guide For Malaria, Dengue and Zika
Optimizing Emergency Department Scheduling
Pardon the Interference [Interactive Ultrasound Case Study]
Poster Boy
Play Nice: The Impact of Rude Behavior On Quality of Care
Predicting the Flu: The New Vaccines
How Accurate Are Rapid Flu Tests?
What’s New With The Flu
1978: Snowed in, But Not Knocked Out
Need to Know: Nitrofurantoin
How to Handle Metacarpal Fractures
God, Money & Medicine: Making Meaning in 2016
Three Reasons To Not Front Load Your Investments In 2016
Making the Most of 2016
It’s a New Year: Make it Count
CT Overuse: The Problem Beneath the Problem
Recent CPR Findings Raise New Questions
The Reluctant Party Planner
Early Cardiac Cath Lab Access For Shockable ROSC Patients Improves Outcomes
Briefing: Resolutions from the AMA House of Delegates
French Connection: Vive le SAMU!
2015
A Wrinkle in Time
Pulmonary Hypertension: No Ordinary Case of Dyspnea
The Year in Review
Have You Called Your Nurse Manager Lately?
Kanavel is Still Kicking
Limiting Variation in ED Admission Rates
Beware the Patient Bearing Gifts
How Many People Actually Die in the Emergency Department?
Looking for Glass?
Using TXA for Traumatic Bleeds
Pain Control Alternatives for Older Patients
Quick Answers to Sticky Problems
Kids with Asthma? Reach for Dexamethasone
Treating the Chainsaw Laceration. Did This EP Do Enough?
Miracle on Figueroa Street
TeamHealth Bought for $6.1 Billion
5 Smart Ways to Give this Holiday Season
From the Man in the Red Socks: “We Can Be a Specialty!”
Psych Units in the ED: Trend, Solution, or Neither?
Drop the Dogma: Is it Time to Use Epinephrine for Digital Nerve Blocks?
5 Simple Rules for Managing Decision Overload
All About Levetiracetam (Keppra)
When a Doc Pulls a No Show
Are you Liable: The Truth About APPs
Probe Before You Poke
Finding That Magic Nursing Ratio
Six Things I Wish I’d Known When I Finished Residency
EM in Myanmar Takes Strides
Stanford Uses ‘Time Banking’ to Boost EP Morale
For Maintenance Fluids, Reach for Isotonic Saline
Step Away from the Vending Machine!
EPs on the Front Lines of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
ACEP’s New CEDR Metrics Present Significant Challenges
6 Things Every EP Needs to Know About K2/Spice & the Synthetic Cannabinoid Epidemic
Don’t Let Market Swings Spook You
In Defense Of Useless Columns
IV APAP Works, So Why Don’t More EPs Use It?
CT of Small Bowel Obstruction
The Uberification of Emergency Response
Handling the ‘Clen’ Overdose
Who Pays the Tab For Unfunded Care?
Dyspnea in a Cancer Patient
Taking Control of Quality Measurements
When it Comes to Accreditation, We Need to Get Beyond ‘Publish or Perish’
Beyond HEART: Building a Better Chest Pain Protocol
Manhunt Medicine
The Right Moves: Making Sense of ICD-10
EPs Not To Blame for the Opiate Crisis
Mass Gathering Medicine: Lessons from the Hajj
Adapt & Adopt: When You Improvise, Use All the Tools in Your Toolbox
My MacGyver Moment
How ED Alternatives Are Killing More Than Wait Times
Severe Hyponatremic Encephalopathy Following Bowel Prep For Colonoscopy
The Clindamycin Fact Sheet
A Novel Approach to the Shocky Child
Why Doctors Quit
The Job Hunt: How to Make a Match That Will Last
This Common ED Medication Can Set Off TSA Alarms
ECG Quiz: Very Wide and Very Fast
10 Times HIPAA May Not Apply
The One Area of Your Finances You Shouldn’t Diversify
D10 May Be Better Than D50 For Acute Hypoglycemia
Another Krome Sets the Bar
Remembering Dr. Krome
Tintinalli Reviews ACEP’s Revised tPA Policy
The Soul of the Matter: Can Believing in God Make You a Better Doctor?
Nursing’s New Champion: An Interview with Katie Duke
Transgender Patients In the ED
So You Want To Send Your Kid to the Ivy League…
Myth v. Fact: The Truth Behind Common PA Misconceptions
PA Training and Supervision: A Conversation with SEMPA Leadership
ACEP Needs a Latin Motto
Multi-purpose Nitroglycerin
People Don’t Heal Overnight, So Stop The Needless Next-Day Referrals
When a Tumble Causes Trouble
That Moment Between Life and Death
The Proper Use of Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis
1968: EM Advances in a Troubled Nation
Understanding the New SEP-1 Sepsis Rollout
West Virginia Supreme Court Ruling Allows Physician Liability for Patient Addiction
The Top Ways Palcohol Abuse Could Present to the Emergency Department
aSAH or Traumatic Tap?
Can I Afford to Quit My Day Job?
ACS? Start My Statins!
Don’t Touch My Telos
All About Topical NSAIDs
Nothing Humorous About This Fracture
FECs: New Face, Better ‘Bond’
Keeping Up With EMTALA – It’s the Law, and it’s Good for Your Patients
Blurry Vision
Sins of Admission: Whistleblower Cases See Massive Payouts
Throwing Stones
Pro/Con: ‘Unnecessary’ Testing
Hail to the Chief
2014
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Pigtail Insertion
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Three Days Pain/Swelling Below Right Jaw
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