Tips for Collaborating with Advanced Practice Providers
The relationship between a physician and a physician assistant (PA) is unquestionably valuable to the patients they…
Posts by Joseph Harrington
Opinion: Tips for Surviving Your First Year on the Board of Directors
In the beginning, through perseverance, dedication, and plain luck, you find yourself nominated to run for the…
How to Use End-tidal Capnography to Monitor Asthmatic Patients
The clinical exam is inherently subjective from one provider to another, but it has even been shown…
Mass Casualty Incident Provides Pearls for Toxin-Related Illness
On a busy Monday evening in April at Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, a 50ish-year-old male…
Tourniquet Use Recommendations from the American College of Surgeons
The ACEP Clinical Policies Committee regularly reviews guidelines published by other organizations and professional societies. Periodically, new…
How to Implement Palliative Care Principles in the Emergency Department
Patients who live with complex serious illness are a large proportion of the patients we see in…
5 Tips to Boost Your Efficiency at Work
Scenario 1 It’s 3 a.m. You have a monster day tomorrow working clinically in the emergency department,…
How to Perform Ultrasound-Guided Knee Arthrocentesis
The warm, swollen knee is a common complaint in the emergency department, with joint aspiration being the…
Emergency Medicine’s Role in Prescription Opioid Abuse
As a member of the board of the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians, I get the opportunity…
ACEP, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Forge Collaborative Relationship
For the first time in several years, a meeting occurred between ACEP Board leadership and the American…