How to Manage Acute Agitation in Children
Acute agitation in children in the emergency department (ED) can be hazardous and distressing to patients, families…
Posts by Jed Henson
Stories from the Ukrainian War: How Doctors and Refugees are Surviving
Svetlana Zakharchenko, DO, an emergency physician in New Jersey, left Ukraine for the United States 30 years…
Tips for Dealing with Difficult Patients
We wrote such beautiful essays and personal statements on our medical school and residency applications. But, over…
Emergency Department Trephination (Burr Hole) for Epidural Hematoma
Emergency physicians must be skillful at performing certain high-risk, low-volume procedures. One of these procedures is emergent…
STEMI X Symposium Holds Health Care Innovation Ideas Competition
The second annual Stanford Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (STEMI X) was held in May 2022. Almost 400…
Residency Spotlight: Orange Park Emergency Medicine Residency at HCA Florida Healthcare
What does your program offer that residents can’t get anywhere else? We offer a training experience in…
Veterans Affairs Emergency Departments Are Geared Toward Veterans
Each year, over 2 million veterans visit our emergency departments (EDs) and urgent care centers. Emergency physicians…
Practical Considerations When Sharing Clinical Images for Treatment Purposes
Case A 69-year-old man presents from the assisted living facility with hip pain following a fall. He…
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Emergency Department
In 2012, the retail store Target inadvertently informed a father that his young daughter was pregnant.1 The…
How Military Medicine Has Influenced Emergency Medicine
An Amtrak train struck a dump truck on June 27, 2022, derailing and scattering its aluminum-colored cars…