More Hospitals are Closing
The wave of increasing hospital closures and service line cutbacks continues to sweep the U.S. A recent...
ACEP Now: Vol 42 – No 12 – December 2023
Tackling Emergency Department Crowding
Emergency departments (EDs) are currently dealing with big problems of overcrowding and boarding. The number of patients...
ACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights and Updates from 2023
As we close out 2023, ACEP’s chapters were invited to share news from the past year and...
From the Editor: Burnout Champions & the Boarder Crisis
Recently several administrators, wealthy donors, and prominent politicians gathered to cut the red velvet ribbon on a...
ACEP Leads National Summit on the Boarding Crisis
Boarding in the emergency department is a systemic crisis with emergency physicians at the center. While the...
Emergency Physician Provides HIV and Hepatitis C Testing, Counseling to Underserved Communities
Yvette Calderon, MD, FACEP, understood health disparities from an early age. Born to Puerto Rican parents who...
Maryland Implements Value-Based Alternative Payment Model
In January 2023, the state of Maryland launched the first-ever government-based emergency medicine alternative payment model. An...
Suicide Attempt in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient with Advance Directive
A middle-aged male with squamous cell carcinoma and extensive metastases is brought to the emergency department (ED)...
Toxicology Question: Which Plant’s Sap Causes Severe Contact Dermatitis?
QUESTION: Which plant‘s sap causes severe contact dermatitis and must be washed off skin immediately after contact?...
Case Report: Pancreatitis Mimics STEMI
Many conditions outside of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) mimic ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), but only a handful...
Data-Driven Approach Yields New Approach for Emergency Department Triage
Emergency medicine involves a density of decision-making that exceeds that of any other medical specialty. Emergency physicians...
An Actionable, Visual Dashboard Approach to Boarding
Boarding has reached crisis levels across the United States, recently culminating in a letter from ACEP and...
Stanford’s Innovation Exchange
The third annual Stanford Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (STEMI X) was held on June 22nd, 2023. The...
A Sobering Year for Emergency Departments and Their Patients
The Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) is a membership organization composed of high-performance emergency departments (EDs) that...
What Happened to Phenylephrine?
In September, a surprising publication by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the efficacy of oral...
Which Sedatives Are Best for Managing Severe Agitation in the Emergency Department?
Patients with severe agitation are frequently encountered in the emergency department (ED) setting. The first steps in...
Toxicology Answer: Milkweed (Asclepias)
Milkweed, genus Asclepias, (named by Linnaeus as Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός) in 1753) is a plant widely distributed across...
December 2023 News from the College
ACEP Blunts Medicare Cuts in 2024 Physician Fee Schedule CMS recently released the Physician Fee Schedule PFS...
