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The mission of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is to invest in innovative clinical and health policy...
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Cataldo Corrado Jr., MD, FACEP, was the youngest of eight children. Named after his father, a family...
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For many years physicians and hospital administrators erroneously thought that everyone was responsible for his or her...
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) was the nation’s first teaching hospital at the nation’s...
There is huge value to timely data collection and sharing within an individual emergency department and between...
Question 1: What does recent literature say about antipyretics and febrile seizure recurrence? How often have you...
Question 2: During pediatric intubations, how much does a shoulder roll (or equivalent) help intubation success? We...
When assessing a patient with a suspected radiographically occult fracture, there are two options for the emergency...
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The ACEP Board of Directors met Feb. 5–6, 2020, and approved several policy statements and initiatives. To...
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ACEP’s new open-access journal, JACEP Open, published its first full issue in late February. As of mid-February,...
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Know an outstanding educator? Nominations are open for the National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, Junior Faculty...
ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 08 – August 2024
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