Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species…
Pain
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Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species... -
Evaluating pain
Pain is supposed to be the fifth vital sign. How we evaluate it now is just a... -
ACGME Pain Medicine Fellowship training for EPs
As an emergency physician 8 years post residency, I resigned my position as emergency medicine attending to...
Evaluating pain
Pain is supposed to be the fifth vital sign. How we evaluate it now is just a…
ACGME Pain Medicine Fellowship training for EPs
As an emergency physician 8 years post residency, I resigned my position as emergency medicine attending to…
Is “Severe Pain” considered an emergency medical condition under EMTALA?
There exists a common misconception that both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the…
Headache and Neck Pain – When to Suspect Cervical Artery Dissection
Introduction Headache and neck pain are extremely common chief complaints in the emergency department. One study found…
EMPRN: Research network amplifies physician voices
EMPRN, the Emergency Medicine Practice Research Network, recently completed its first survey and presented some of the…
The Sixth Vital Sign
Pain control is very important. Over the past decade or so, you’d have to have been in…
Get the Latest Research in the December Annals
Here is a quick look at three articles published in the December issue of Annals of Emergency…
Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Block
In the emergency department, ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks can provide rapid and definitive control of acute pain…
Rolling in Agony Like a Chinchilla
All people are gifted. In the ED, I see a wide variety of gifts, such as yodeling,…