1954: EDs Called the ‘Weakest Link’
Brian Zink’s Concise History of Emergency Medicine: 1954: EDs Called the ‘Weakest Link’ Sixty years ago, emergency…
Have Some HEART
Is it time to start using the HEART pathway in the emergency department? There are…
Aortic Dissection in the ED: A Review of ACEP’s New Guidelines
Despite this new tool, AAD remains a difficult diagnosis in the emergency department Acute Thoracic…
A Grateful Nation
This past Memorial Day weekend I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. I got…
Pilot Project Trains EMS to Bypass the ED with Mental Health Patients
North Carolina program has reduced the number of ED transports, but EMS reimbursement has yet…
Doxycycline
The drug of Summer in the Southeast Summer in the eastern United States means the…
Enough with the ED Rituals
Why are we still engaging in unnecessary treatments that have no evidence to back them…
Protecting the Intubated Patient
While much focus is put on intubation in the ED, post-intubation ventilator management is arguably…
Venomous Complications
How to recognize and appropriately manage a dangerous snakebite Earlier this year, during a subzero…
Beware of the Dog
Sometimes it takes an old dog to teach you new tricks I am not certain…