ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 03 – March 2024 Archives

Using Transillumination to Diagnose a Foreign Body

Mar 05, 2024 - By Amanda Anderson, DO; Jaden Miller

A 4-year-old female, who is otherwise healthy, presented to the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of left...

Emergency Medicine Shows Rebound in 2024 Residency Match

Mar 11, 2024 - By Mike Kiemeny, MD, FACEP, Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH, FACEP, Nancy Calaway, CAE, and Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

After a surprisingly low number of applicants and a shockingly high unfilled rate last year, emergency medicine...

Survival Tactics for Emergency Department Boarding

Mar 05, 2024 - By Shari Welch, MD

A few statistics that help to frame our hospital capacity crisis today: Immediately following World War II,...

Readers Respond: Lead Poisoning, AI Ethics, and Racial Division

Mar 05, 2024 - By Steven M. Marcus, MD, Greg Neyman, MD, FACEP, and Aida Cerundolo, MD

Re: 'A Case Report: A Child with a Rash and Lead Poisoning History ' (January 2024) I...

ACEP Advances Boarding Solutions

Mar 12, 2024 - By Steve Arnoff

Emergency physician-supported solutions to some of the biggest challenges in health care are gaining steam in Washington,...

Creative Careers: Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP

Mar 12, 2024 - By ACEP Now

Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP, vividly recalls watching his first car race as a child. The sounds, the...

By the Numbers: The Emergency Medicine Oral Certifying Examination

Mar 13, 2024 - By ACEP Now

A Conversation with ABEM President Dr. Ramon W. Johnson

Mar 13, 2024 - By Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

I recently spoke with Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA, who is currently the president of the American...

10 Pitfalls of Salicylate Poisoning

Mar 06, 2024 - By Carleigh F. Hebbard, PHD, MD; Michael E. Mullins, MD, FACEP, FAACT

Salicylates, principally acetylsalicylic acid (ASA or aspirin), remain a common cause of poisoning morbidity and mortality. In...

Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of Emergency Department Patients

Mar 13, 2024 - By Eileen F. Baker, MD, PHD, FACEP; Nicholas H. Kluesner, MD, FACEP; Kenneth Marshall, MD, MA, FACEP; Laura E. Vearrier, MD, DBE, FACEP; Kelly Bookman, MD, FACEP

Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions....