ACEP Now Wins APEX Award for Writing Excellence
ACEP Now has received an APEX Award of Excellence for writing for “Space Medicine: Emergency Physicians Voyage...
ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 07 – July 2024
Child Abuse Cases in the Emergency Department
Case 1: A 5-year-old male is brought to the emergency department (ED) by his father and stepmother...
A Train-the-Trainer Model Implements Traumatic Brain Injury Protocol in Vietnam
In the bustling streets of Vietnam, motorcycles remain the predominant mode of transportation. Navigating through Hanoi’s vibrant...
Readers Respond: How Not to Miss Posterior Circulation Stroke
We disagree with the recommendation to use the HINTS Exam as the gold standard for detecting posterior...
ACEP President Is Showing Up for Emergency Medicine
ACEP President Aisha Terry, MD, FACEP, kicked off the month of June with a series of appearances...
Residency Spotlight: Carolinas Medical Center
What does your program offer that residents can’t get anywhere else? Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) is a...
Problem Drinking Remains a Big Problem
It’s 7 a.m. and before you’ve even taken the first sips of your morning coffee, you’ve already...
Emergency Medicine Foundation Elevates EM Research
Jin Ho Han, MD, MS, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is considered a...
This Emergency Physician Leads Next Generation Through Service
Physician leadership is a priority for ACEP President Aisha T. Terry, MD, MPH, FACEP. She’s approaching the...
Financial Headwinds Cause Hospital Subsidies to Rise
Emergency medicine faces economic headwinds that threaten the financial viability of independent practices, the budgets of hospital...
The Current Status of Continuous-Seizure Management
35-year-old man presents by EMS with seizures. According to family at the scene, he has a history...
Case Report: Imaging Follows Dangerous ATV Accident
A 40-year-old woman with a history of untreated hypertension presented by ambulance after she was thrown from...
10 Tips for New Attending Emergency Physicians
I have learned more from my failures than my successes. My current practice is a hybrid of...
Emergency Physician Suffers a Different Kind of Moral Injury
One night I found myself on the other side of the stretcher, as a patient waiting for...
Tips for Button-Battery Ingestion to Avoid Life-Threatening Tissue Damage
Why do emergency physicians need to know about the recognition and management of button battery ingestion? Button...
Visual Dx Question: What Is Causing This Elbow Pain?
Question: A 68-year-old man presents with a one-month history of left elbow pain. What is the diagnosis?...
Tread Cautiously with Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Scenarios
Virtually everyone has experimented with large language models (LLMs) in some fashion. Whether a person is conducting...
Tips for Tachycardia in Children
In its simplest form, the solution for tachycardia in children has been the same since the inception...
Visual Dx Answer: a) Olecranon Bursitis
Answer: The correct answer is a) Olecranon bursitis. The most pathognomonic symptom is swelling in the posterior...
July 2024 News from the College
New Unionization Resources Now Available In a growing curation of content about physician unionization, the ACEP Medical-Legal...
