ACEP Leadership & Advocacy Conference 2024 Recap
Leadership is defined as “the action of leading a group of people or an organization.” Advocacy is...
ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 06 – June 2024
Updates in the Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction secondary to a dysregulated host response to an infection; an estimated...
Residency Spotlight: Nuvance Health at Vassar Brothers Medical Center
What Does Your Program Offer That Residents Can’t Get Anywhere Else? Vassar Brothers Medical Center stands out...
Members in the News: Ken Milne, MD
ACEP Member Ken Milne, MD, was named the 2024 Emergency Physician of the Year for the Ontario...
Readers Respond: Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of ED Patients
A national physician on-call data center where hospital on-call lists are published and categorized by location would...
ACEP4U: Defending YOU by Demanding an End to the Boarding Crisis
This fall, ACEP will participate in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Director’s summit on...
ACEP Board Meeting Tackles Current Issues, Practice Trends
Aware of growing discourse among emergency physicians about physician unionization, the ACEP Board of directors spent some...
Toxicology Question: What Spiky Creepy Crawler Embeds Its Spines in Your Skin?
And, how do you treat its victims? Click here to see the answers.
Emergency Physician Empowers Children to Read
Nick Vasquez, MD, FACEP, gets to see the impact of social determinants of health every day in...
Is It Time to Unionize?
Editor's Note: This is an update to a previous version of this article which appeared online before...
Evaluating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic disease of the lungs caused by inflammatory and structural...
Why Sex and Gender Matter in Medicine
For centuries, we’ve tended to view specific groups through simplified lenses. We see children as miniature adults,...
Updated Urology Guidelines for Priapism
Ischemic priapism is not uncommonly encountered in the emergency department (ED) and essentially results in a compartment...
Toxicology Answer: the White-Marked Tussock Moth Caterpillar
There are three species of white-marked tussock moths, Orgyia detrita, Orgyia leucostigma, and Orgyia definita, found across...
Why Performance Chasing Is an Investing Error
Question I’m now eligible for my 401(k), and I need to pick which mutual funds to invest...
Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues
Transferring patients from one ED to another hospital is an established part of emergency medicine practice. Patients...
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June 2024 News from the College
ACEP-Developed Due Process Legislation Introduced by Congress Last month, Congress introduced the “Physician and Patient Safety Act”...
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ACEP Now is looking for its next resident to join our editorial team. The position is open...
