Expect the Unexpected
When it rains, it pours. You and your overnight team of residents have just finished…
Drunk and Dangerous
It was a hot Saturday night and the ED was packed, as usual. All the…
EPM Survey: ACLS Training is of Minimal Value
From a total of 769 respondents, 80% of whom were board certified in emergency medicine…
Merit Badge Courses: Who Benefits?
This month’s issue of EP Monthly reveals the results of an interesting survey about the…
Risky Business: Understanding Financial Risk, Part I
As physicians we face many different types of risk every day, from the risk that…
Fall Out of Tree, Right Elbow Pain
You are asked to see a stable multiple-trauma patient, 26 years old, who has fallen…
Tales from the Crib
A great emergency physician is an expert in the atypical, the unstable, and the unexpected.…
Take Your Practice from Good to Great
Dear Director, I just finished my first year as an attending and while I feel…
A-Fib and Cardioversion: A Brief History
The advent of cardioversion was not a human drama. In 1775 the French physician Abilgard…
A-fib & Cardioversion: Just Shock ‘Em
Applying the medical literature to the clinical practice of medicine, via education, can often be…