Opinion: Independent Emergency Group Practice Model Boosts Physician Satisfaction
There are many issues facing emergency medicine, but the biggest issue for me is physician satisfaction. Happy…
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Critical Care in the Emergency Department: An Interview with Dr. Rade Vukmir
Rade B. Vukmir, MD, JD, FCCP, FACEP, FACHE, is an emergency and critical care physician and one…
5 Important Considerations for EMS Naloxone Administration
1) Endpoints of Therapy: More is Not Always Better EMS providers may encounter patients with complete or…
Adjusting D-Dimer Test Thresholds Could Reduce Unnecessary Imaging
Nearly every strategy addressing the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) revolves around the D-dimer test. These crosslink…
How to Manage Emergency Department Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
In previous decades, the therapies for congestive heart failure (CHF) were limited both with respect to options…
Emergency Physicians Should Know Risks Entailed in Discharging Patients with Pending Blood Cultures
I feel that your article [“Admit or Not?”, May 2017] in ACEP Now was a bit too…
Emergency Physician Sidesteps Poor U.S. Maternity Leave Practices by Negotiating Her Own
While I was pregnant, my husband and I decided to move closer to family. My due date…
Low-Dose Ketamine Emerges as Effective Opioid Alternative
Amid a national opioid epidemic, there is a search for other effective analgesics in the emergency department,…
Does Cellulitis Treatment Need to Cover MRSA Infection?
The questions I get asked most are, “How do you treat cellulitis? Do I need to cover…