ACEP Now: Vol 44 – No 01 – January 2025 Archives

Emergency Physicians Volunteer to Deliver Care

Dec 04, 2024 - By Darrin Scheid, CAE

After a long Thursday shift at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, emergency physician Theresa Nguyen, MD,...

ACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights and Updates from 2024

Dec 05, 2024 - By ACEP Now

As we close out 2024, ACEP’s chapters were invited to share news from the past year and...

ACEP Now Shifts to Hybrid Format in 2025

Dec 05, 2024 - By Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

Egon Spengler, PhD, famously quipped, “Print is dead!” in the 1984 film Ghostbusters. As a man who...

Point/Counterpoint: Abortion in the Emergency Department

Dec 05, 2024 - By Cortney S. Draper, MD; Karen Hou Chung, MD; Neha Gupta, MD; Breanne Jacobs, MD; Dara Kass, MD; and Kimi Chernoby, MD, JD

Point: Medical Emergencies in Pregnant Women Should Not Be Falsely Equated With Expanding Access to Elective or...

NEMPAC Creates Opportunities, Results for Emergency Medicine

Dec 06, 2024 - By Darrin Scheid, CAE

As voters across the country braced for uncertainty heading into Election Day 2024, emergency physicians could rest...

Retired Maryland Emergency Physician Is Still in the Fight

Dec 06, 2024 - By Darrin Scheid, CAE

By some definitions, you could call former Maryland state legislator Dan Morhaim, MD, FACEP, a retired emergency...

A Conversation with ACEP President Dr. Alison Haddock

Dec 03, 2024 - By Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

Twice a year, the Medical Editor-in-Chief of ACEP Now sits down with the ACEP President to discuss...

Residency Spotlight: ChristianaCare Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Dec 06, 2024 - By ACEP Now

What does your program offer that residents can’t get anywhere else? We see a high volume of...

Case Report: Coronary Vasospasm-Induced Cardiac Arrest

Dec 06, 2024 - By Thomas C. Godwin, MD; Dany Accilien, MD; and Jahan Rad, MD

A 45-year-old male with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, amphetamine and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...

Case Report: Biatrial Myxoma in a 46-Year-Old Female

Dec 06, 2024 - By Nanakwame A. Darkwa, MD, Avinash Ram, DO, and Kazi Sumon, MD

A 46-year-old female with a prior medical history of asthma presented to the emergency department with shortness...

GW Residency Union: A Resident’s Perspective

Dec 17, 2024 - By Karen Hou Chung, MD

Medical training is a difficult task. As residents and fellows, we move wherever the Match sends us,...

Thrombolytics in Stroke: Moving Beyond Controversy to Comprehensive Care

Dec 07, 2024 - By Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC, FACEP; Bruce Lo, MD, MBA, RDMS, FACEP; Ed Jauch, MD, MS; and Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS, FACEP

The use of thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke may be one of the most controversial topics in...

Strategies to Reduce Ambulance Patient Offload Delays

Dec 07, 2024 - By Marc Gautreau, MD, MBA, and Clayton Kazan, MD

As emergency departments (EDs) have become the focus of bottlenecks in the entire health care system—from insufficient...

Treating Acute Pulmonary Embolism with EKOS and the Inari FlowTriever

Dec 07, 2024 - By Ghida Ghanim, MD; and Robert McArthur, MD

Approximately 60,000 to 100,000 patients die from pulmonary embolism (PE) each year in the United States, and...

Employ a Trauma-Informed Approach to Care

Dec 07, 2024 - By Ralph Riviello, MD, FACEP; and Heather Rozzi, MD, FACEP

A 28-year-old female is brought to the emergency department (ED) by police after a sexual assault. She...

ED Volumes Keep Climbing as Patients Demand Acute, Unscheduled Care

Dec 08, 2024 - By James Augustine, MD, FACEP

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates of emergency department (ED) visits for 2022 were...

December 2024 News from the College

Dec 03, 2024 - By ACEP Now

Annals Study Details Cost of Boarding A study in the October issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine...

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