Case Report: An Endocrine Enigma
A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) after a witnessed seizure. On examination, the patient…
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Case Report: An Endocrine Enigma
A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) after a witnessed seizure. On examination, the patient... -
ACEP Council Debates Scope of Practice, Access to Care, Safe Injection Sites, and More
More than 60 resolutions were put forth during the ACEP22 Council Meeting in San Francisco, with many... -
ACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights, Updates, and More From 2022
As we kick off 2023, ACEP chapters were invited to share their news from the past year...
ACEP Council Debates Scope of Practice, Access to Care, Safe Injection Sites, and More
More than 60 resolutions were put forth during the ACEP22 Council Meeting in San Francisco, with many…
ACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights, Updates, and More From 2022
As we kick off 2023, ACEP chapters were invited to share their news from the past year…
The AHRQ Diagnostic Errors Study: A Peer Reviewer’s Reaction
In December 2022, Newman-Toker et al., published a systematic review on emergency department (ED) diagnostic errors with funding…
Report on ED Diagnostic Errors Sparks Controversy
When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its systematic review of diagnostic errors in…
Patients’ Best Friends: Therapy Dogs in the Emergency Department
Since time immemorial—or at least the 1956 publication of “Old Yeller”—stories about remarkable dogs who save humans…
Is Your Medical Chart Feeling Bloated?
That well-known but medically complex patient is back in your emergency department (ED). He was seen by…
How To Prepare for In-Flight Emergencies
You are 40,000 feet in the air, flying across the Atlantic Ocean when the intercom crackles to…
Telehealth Pros and Pitfalls
The Case for Expanding Emergency Telehealth Services by Aditi U. Joshi, MD, MSC, FACEP Telehealth and tel-emergency…
The Future of Antibiotics and Appendicitis in the Emergency Department
In 2020, following publication of the Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial, the…