Working Our Vaccine Clinic Was a Shot in the Arm
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected physician mental health and has become an important focus in our response…
Posts by Dawn Antoline-Wang
NEMPAC Reviews Giving Criteria, Continues Legacy of Activism
As our National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee (NEMPAC) Board examined our accomplishments in the 2020 election…
Emergen-Sea Medicine Part 2: Overview of Marine Envenomations
In Part 1 of our two-part series on marine envenomations, we reviewed some general information on wound…
Emergen-Sea Medicine: Overview of Marine Envenomations
Part 1 of 2. Read part 2 here. Surf and turf, anyone? And when I say “surf,”…
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…
Early Tracheostomy May Be Beneficial in Ventilated COVID-19 Patients
Early percutaneous tracheostomy in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients is associated with improved outcomes compared to management with…
First-in-human Study Has Good News for Universal Flu Vaccine
Researchers may be one step closer to creating a universal influenza vaccine after successfully testing a new…
Glycemia in Early COVID-19 Hospitalization Linked to Mortality
Improved glycemia within the first two or three days of hospitalization is a better predictor of outcomes…
Pediatric Emergency-Medicine Workers Can Discuss Child Trafficking with Patients
Health care workers in emergency departments should discuss child-trafficking concerns with their patients, emphasizing privacy and confidentiality,…