ACEP Now: Vol 41 – No 12 – December 2022
Catching Up with ACEP President Dr. Chris Kang
Every year, ACEP Now interviews ACEP’s President. This year, Dr. Chris Kang, the first Asian American to...
The Power of Your Boarding Crisis Stories
For emergency physicians, boarding and crowding isn’t a new problem. But in the past several months, you’ve...
Residency Spotlight: Emergency Medicine Residency at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
What does your program offer that residents can’t get anywhere else? Our residents are proud to be...
Case Report: Fitz-Hugh Curtis Syndrome in a Male with HIV
Portions of this study have been presented as a poster abstract at the Case Western Reserve University...
Creative Careers: Dara Kass, MD
Dara Kass, MD, has always been a change agent. Early in her career, she became a passionate...
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...
Telehealth Pros and Pitfalls
The Case for Expanding Emergency Telehealth Services by Aditi U. Joshi, MD, MSC, FACEP Telehealth and tel-emergency...
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...
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...
Toxicology Question: The Pinwheel of Poison
Question: Nicknamed sorcerer’s violet, fairy’s paintbrush, and fiore di morte (flower of death in Italian), and often...
Toxicology Answer: The Periwinkle
Answer: Periwinkle, or Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus rosea), is a tropical perennial that was brought to Europe in...
There Are Only Four Effective Interventions in Emergency Medicine
Every generation of emergency physicians can tell a whiplash-inducing story of a medical reversal from their training,...
The Reperfusion Guidelines Finally Catch Up
“Time is myocardium.” Emergency, prehospital, and regional systems have been built around this slogan and are designed...
Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Multiple ACEP members were among the newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). According ...
ACEP’s Pediatric EM Section Shares New Resources
ACEP’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) section has updated its website at acep.org/pediatrics to include its recent edu-cational...
ACEP’s New Clinical Policy Addresses Acute Heart Failure Syndromes
ACEP’s Clinical Policy Committee revised its 2007 clinical policy “Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of...
Watch Webinar on Role of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the Emergency Department
ACEP’s Democratic Group Practice Section hosted a distinguished panel to present a webinar covering the best practices...
AAWEP Recognizes Annual Award Winners
The American Association for Women Emergency Physicians (AAWEP) named its annual award winners. These honorees are recognized...
Young Physicians Discuss Childcare Challenges and Solutions
ACEP’s Young Physicians Section hosted a panel discussion about finding childcare options that work with the unique...
ACEP Member Benefit Spotlight: TripPlanet
TripPlanet is an invite-only platform that gives ACEP members access to deeply discounted airfare and hotel rates....
