D2B time: Are we measuring the right thing?
Door-to-balloon (D2B) time is a measurement that starts with patient arrival to the emergency department (door) and…
Blog Archives
ACEP Clinical Policy Review: Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients in the ED with Asymptomatic Elevated BP
In the July issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, ACEP published a clinical policy focusing on…
Job Market for Emergency Physicians
[This is the second of a two-part series on the state of the emergency medicine job market….
Critical Decisions: Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease – Part One
From the EM Model 8.0 Hematologic Disorders 8.5 Red Blood Cell Disorders Sickle cell disease (SCD) is…
Award Winners to Be Honored at ACEP13 in Seattle
Each year, ACEP recognizes outstanding contributions to emergency medicine. Here are this year’s recipients of these awards:…
Asset Protection for the EM Physician: Consider These 10 Steps Before You Are Sued
If you practice emergency medicine long enough, odds are that you will become a defendant in a…
Dust at Our Feet
[Young men (and sometimes women) always have had and will have a sense of invincibility. Prior to…
Faith in the Emergency Department
‘This guy doesn’t look good.’ There are phrases in emergency medicine that mean pure, smoldering badness. The…
Religious Experiences in the ED
The patient did not look happy to see me. “Great, another doctor,” she said. “Where’d you come…
Biomedical Ethics & the Law
Earlier this year the Supreme Court of the State of New York issued an opinion that reminded…