Using Transillumination to Diagnose a Foreign Body
A 4-year-old female, who is otherwise healthy, presented to the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of left...
ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 03 – March 2024
Emergency Medicine Shows Rebound in 2024 Residency Match
After a surprisingly low number of applicants and a shockingly high unfilled rate last year, emergency medicine...
Survival Tactics for Emergency Department Boarding
A few statistics that help to frame our hospital capacity crisis today: Immediately following World War II,...
Readers Respond: Lead Poisoning, AI Ethics, and Racial Division
Re: 'A Case Report: A Child with a Rash and Lead Poisoning History ' (January 2024) I...
ACEP Advances Boarding Solutions
Emergency physician-supported solutions to some of the biggest challenges in health care are gaining steam in Washington,...
Creative Careers: Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP
Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP, vividly recalls watching his first car race as a child. The sounds, the...
A Conversation with ABEM President Dr. Ramon W. Johnson
I recently spoke with Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA, who is currently the president of the American...
10 Pitfalls of Salicylate Poisoning
Salicylates, principally acetylsalicylic acid (ASA or aspirin), remain a common cause of poisoning morbidity and mortality. In...
Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of Emergency Department Patients
Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions....
Case Report: a High-Voltage Victim
A 44 year-old male with unknown past medical history came by emergency medical services (EMS) to the...
Young ACEP Member Is Passionate About Breaking Down Barriers to Care
Owais Durrani, DO, a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Pakistan, has experienced barriers to health care...
How To Manage Tracheo-Innominate Fistula
A 24-year-old male with history of quadriplegia and traumatic brain injury presents to the emergency department with...
Scan for These Potential Signs of Non-Accidental Trauma
A 14-month-old male presents with fussiness. Per his mother, he seems to have some discomfort in his...
Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023
Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. “Gotta catch ‘em all!”...
Revisiting Nitroglycerin in MI with Right-Side Ventricular Involvement
A 64-year-old male collapses after shovelling snow. Paramedics find a patient with eight out of 10 chest...
Occult and Subtle Wrist and Hand Injuries You Don’t Want To Miss
A 20-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) directly from the scene of a fall from...
March 2024 News from the College
Take a Deep Dive into Physician Unionization ACEP wants to protect and empower you. We invite you...
