Clinical Decision Rules: Are They Valid?
Chest pain is a diagnostic dilemma for the emergency physician. Data from the United States…
News Upload with Howard Kim: Mind the Gender Gap
Mind the Gender Gap Women comprise nearly 50% of medical students, yet the percentage of…
Facing Retirement During Recession
“The number one issue for physicians who continue to practice as we grow older is…
Policy News
Could Medicare’s new “Preventable Complications” policy bring your emergency department to its knees?
Soundings: Chronic back pain? Check the ultrasound
You are working the Sunday overnight shift when you pick up a chart that sends…
Wet Reads Facial trauma: A look beyond the bones
Elderly female with head and facial injuries with diminished mentation & poor respiratory effort…
Male Child Survived Rollover MVC
You hear the report from the medics at a scene of a male child, “between…
Health Care Reform Reality Check, Part II
Real reform demands that we question our most basic health care assumptions
Hearts, Minds & Body Armor
CDR Mark Plaster, MC, USNR writes from Iraq
Digest of Dr. Herbert’s Monthly Audio CME Series: Septic Patients & Urethral Injuries
Dr. Al Sacchetti weighs in on the issue of etomidate in sepsis and reviews his…