Event Medicine: Where Fun and Safety Sing in Perfect Harmony
Emergency physicians are taking their skills out of the ED to provide medical care at music festivals, marathons, and other large-scale events.
Disaster Medicine
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Event Medicine: Where Fun and Safety Sing in Perfect Harmony
Emergency physicians are taking their skills out of the ED to provide medical care at music festivals, marathons, and other large-scale events. -
Trauma First Aid at the 2025 Boston Marathon
A BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship project at the Boston Marathon is creating a new model for trauma preparedness and response at mass gatherings worldwide. -
LA County Fires Illustrate Strength of Emergency Medicine Community
When California wildfires threatened their homes, emergency physicians faced personal disaster. Read their stories of loss and how the EM community stepped in to help.
Trauma First Aid at the 2025 Boston Marathon
A BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship project at the Boston Marathon is creating a new model for trauma preparedness and response at mass gatherings worldwide.
LA County Fires Illustrate Strength of Emergency Medicine Community
When California wildfires threatened their homes, emergency physicians faced personal disaster. Read their stories of loss and how the EM community stepped in to help.
ACEP Member Uses ED, Military Training To Set Standards at FEMA
FEMA CMO Dr. Andre Pennardt explains how his military and emergency medicine career prepared him for a leadership role in disaster medicine.
Management of ED Crowding versus Mass Casualty Incidents: Is There an Ethical Difference?
It is a busy Saturday evening in your emergency department (ED). Every bed is filled, including those…
Cancer Patients Often Excluded in U.S. State Crisis-standards-of-care Guidelines
U.S. state crisis-standards-of-care (CSC) guidelines, which allocate scarce health resources among patients, often deprioritize or exclude cancer…
Hurricane Florence and the Use of Telemedicine
Hurricane Florence struck North Carolina as a Category 1 storm on Sept. 14, 2018, bringing with it…
Notes From Emergency Physician Working When the Camp Fire Threatened Hospital
The town of Paradise, California, burned to the ground on Nov. 8, 2018, in the Camp Fire….
Laying the Groundwork for Effective Disaster Response: An Interview with Dr. Robert Kadlec
The nation’s health care system is facing a growing number of actual and potential public health disasters,…
Proactive Approach Urged to Chemical-Weapons Attacks
Physicians and health care systems need to establish strategies for recognizing and responding to the unlikely occurrence…