Nail Bed Injuries: What to Do—or Not to Do
A 12-year-old boy presented after a fall from his bicycle with an injury to his right long…
Procedures and Skills
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Nail Bed Injuries: What to Do—or Not to Do
A 12-year-old boy presented after a fall from his bicycle with an injury to his right long... -
10 Essentials for Your Emergency Department Fanny Pack
There is significance in the things we carry.1 The objects we choose to fill a limited space... -
Learn About Accreditation at ACEP18
ACEP offers two emergency department accreditation programs that will enhance your ED, improve patient care, and help...
10 Essentials for Your Emergency Department Fanny Pack
There is significance in the things we carry.1 The objects we choose to fill a limited space…
Learn About Accreditation at ACEP18
ACEP offers two emergency department accreditation programs that will enhance your ED, improve patient care, and help…
Use End-Tidal Capnography for Placing Orogastric, Nasogastric Tubes, and CPR
In the last “Tricks of the Trade” column (November 2016), we reviewed how to use end-tidal capnography…
The Internet of Medical Things, Useful Devices for Emergency Physicians
The era of the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) can be best summarized into five broad categories…
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the ED: Exciting Medicine, Ethical Challenges
A previously healthy 45-year-old man is brought into the emergency department with chest pain and arrests immediately…
Ultrasound-Guided Glenohumeral Joint Evaluation and Aspiration
Evaluation of the patient with the painful shoulder can be difficult in the emergency department. The septic…
Four Techniques for Handling the Omega-Shaped Epiglottis
Curved blade laryngoscopy, whether with a conventional direct blade or video laryngoscope (with a Macintosh design or…
Emergency Medicine Techniques, Equipment List for Removing Fishhooks Lodged in Patients
“Foreign body–fishhook.” We commonly see these injuries in our emergency departments and think, “This could be a…
Tips on Decompressing a Tension Pneumothorax, Deciphering Pacemaker Codes
Your patient has a tension pneumothorax after being stabbed. Or maybe it’s a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…