Jay Kaplan MD, FACEP, recently argued in ACEP Now (April 2014) that emergency physicians should embrace patient…
The design of emergency departments (EDs) is evolving with the changes in patients served, diagnostic testing utilized,…
Last month, I attended the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute (@aspenideas) in Colorado for its…
For emergency departments seeing medium to high volumes of patients, the concept of patient segmentation is becoming…
Eighty-seven percent of intubations were performed by emergency physicians. In more than two-thirds of cases, rapid sequence…
Geriatric emergency medicine (GEM) is an area of growing importance within emergency medicine. The population of adults…
One of the specific goals of the geriatric emergency medicine (GEM) fellowship at the University of California,…
If you enter #EMTOT (Emergency Medicine Tricks of the Trade) into a Twitter search you’ll certainly find…
Continual improvement of safe, effective care delivery is a goal of every clinician. Involving our patients in…
Last September, emergency physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston began testing a new technology…