Don’t Let Market Swings Spook You
More scared of your portfolio than of the latest Halloween horror flick? Try a dose…
Step Away from the Vending Machine!
From day-old pizza to burnt, cold coffee, EPs are known for eating anything left in…
EPs on the Front Lines of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
An American emergency physician practicing in Vienna provides ground-level observations about the medical – and…
ACEP’s New CEDR Metrics Present Significant Challenges
Developing evidence-based guidelines? Difficult. Launching a sophisticated software platform? Challenging. Teaching 35,000 EPs to comply…
6 Things Every EP Needs to Know About K2/Spice & the Synthetic Cannabinoid Epidemic
Unholy Smokes Synthetic cannabinoid use and related emergency department (ED) visits are skyrocketing in the…
In Defense Of Useless Columns
In Tamara Green’s most excellent text, The Greek And Latin Roots Of English, she opens…
IV APAP Works, So Why Don’t More EPs Use It?
When intravenous acetaminophen hit the market, I was skeptical. But four recent studies proved me…
CT of Small Bowel Obstruction
CT is commonly performed for clinically suspected small bowel obstruction (SBO), and sometimes for bowel…
The Uberification of Emergency Response
Trek Medics International has developed an uber-style mobile-based dispatching platform that alerts taxi drivers trained…
Handling the ‘Clen’ Overdose
From its use as a heroin adulterant to its abuse as a performance-enhancing drug, clenbuterol…