Learn About Accreditation at ACEP18
ACEP offers two emergency department accreditation programs that will enhance your ED, improve patient care, and help…
Procedures and Skills
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Learn About Accreditation at ACEP18
ACEP offers two emergency department accreditation programs that will enhance your ED, improve patient care, and help... -
Use End-Tidal Capnography for Placing Orogastric, Nasogastric Tubes, and CPR
In the last “Tricks of the Trade” column (November 2016), we reviewed how to use end-tidal capnography... -
The Internet of Medical Things, Useful Devices for Emergency Physicians
The era of the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) can be best summarized into five broad categories...
Use End-Tidal Capnography for Placing Orogastric, Nasogastric Tubes, and CPR
In the last “Tricks of the Trade” column (November 2016), we reviewed how to use end-tidal capnography…
The Internet of Medical Things, Useful Devices for Emergency Physicians
The era of the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) can be best summarized into five broad categories…
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the ED: Exciting Medicine, Ethical Challenges
A previously healthy 45-year-old man is brought into the emergency department with chest pain and arrests immediately…
Ultrasound-Guided Glenohumeral Joint Evaluation and Aspiration
Evaluation of the patient with the painful shoulder can be difficult in the emergency department. The septic…
Four Techniques for Handling the Omega-Shaped Epiglottis
Curved blade laryngoscopy, whether with a conventional direct blade or video laryngoscope (with a Macintosh design or…
Emergency Medicine Techniques, Equipment List for Removing Fishhooks Lodged in Patients
“Foreign body–fishhook.” We commonly see these injuries in our emergency departments and think, “This could be a…
Tips on Decompressing a Tension Pneumothorax, Deciphering Pacemaker Codes
Your patient has a tension pneumothorax after being stabbed. Or maybe it’s a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
Modified Valsalva Maneuver Better Way to Manage Supraventricular Tachycardia
Case: A 19-year-old male arrives at the ED complaining of palpitations. He is known to have supraventricular…
Tips for Using a Hyperangulated Video Laryngoscope
Hyperangulated video laryngoscopes have blade shapes with a curvature more acute than a standard Macintosh blade. Commercial…