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408, 2020

A Thing Not Looked for Is Seldom Found

August 4th, 2020|Comments Off on A Thing Not Looked for Is Seldom Found

Alyka Glor Fernandez, OMS-IV Mitchell Dean Maulfair, DO A previously healthy 16-year-old male presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. He woke up with abdominal pain that steadily worsened and was unrelieved by a dose of over the counter simethicone.  This pro [...]

1307, 2020

Applying Emergency Medicine During a Pandemic – Advice for Orphan Program Medical Students

July 13th, 2020|Comments Off on Applying Emergency Medicine During a Pandemic – Advice for Orphan Program Medical Students

Authors: Andrew Langille DO1, Christina Hornack DO2, Dhimitri Nikolla DO3 Positions/Affiliations: 1ACOEP-RSO Secretary, EM Resident, UT Nashville, Nashville, TN 2ACOEP-RSO President, EM Resident, Adena Regional Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH 3ACOEP RSAC Chair, EM Attending, AHN Saint Vincent, Erie, [...]

2906, 2020

Welcome Emergency Medicine Interns!

June 29th, 2020|Comments Off on Welcome Emergency Medicine Interns!

Greetings and welcome to our new class of Emergency Medicine Interns! You have joined our specialty during an exciting and uncertain time. But excitement and uncertainty are not new to our specialty, nor do I believe they are unique to it. We are often called to react to situations without enough in [...]

2906, 2020

Volunteering as a Medical Student During COVID-19: A Personal Account

June 29th, 2020|Comments Off on Volunteering as a Medical Student During COVID-19: A Personal Account

Kaley Canova-Gaitros, OMS-IV, Kansas City University I am sure that years from now, my classmates and I will all remember what rotation we were pulled from on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; I was in my final week of an ENT Surgery rotation.  The next couple of weeks were full of specul [...]

2906, 2020

Interview With Stephanie Davis, DO

June 29th, 2020|Comments Off on Interview With Stephanie Davis, DO

In May 2020, Sean Creegan, OMS III, sat down (virtually) with Dr. Stephanie Davis, DO, and asked about her work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a transcript of some of the interview. Be sure to listen to the audio version for the complete interview, including our discussion on w [...]

806, 2020

What Can I Do?

June 8th, 2020|Comments Off on What Can I Do?

Taylor Klein, NRAEMT, MSc, OMS-III On Sunday, March 15th, 2020, I was on my OB-GYN rotation and was present for three deliveries.  The residents and attendings were pimping me on various OB emergency facts as I had just come off of my ED elective and had shared with them my plans to apply to EM.  By [...]

1305, 2020

Awake Proning for COVID-19 Pneumonia

May 13th, 2020|Comments Off on Awake Proning for COVID-19 Pneumonia

Dhimitri A Nikolla, DO Emergency Physician AHN Saint Vincent, Erie PA Introduction Proning is a method of positioning hypoxemic patients to improve oxygenation. It reduces mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS),1 and has been recommended [...]

3004, 2020

Making a Cost-effective Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy Assisted Decontamination (SALAD) Simulation System

April 30th, 2020|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Making a Cost-effective Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy Assisted Decontamination (SALAD) Simulation System

Authors: Paige Reinfeld, MS, OMS-II Shriman Balasubramanian, MS, OMS-II Michael Polito, OMS-II Nicole Kiess, OMS-II Adithya Nagaraja, OMS-II School: TouroCOM – Middletown,NY Social Media: @simclubtouro Introduction Airway management remains an essential skill for various healthcare disciplines, with [...]

3004, 2020

Apply To Be WestJEM’s ACOEP Resident Section Editor!

April 30th, 2020|Comments Off on Apply To Be WestJEM’s ACOEP Resident Section Editor!

The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WestJEM) continues to flourish globally. We are expanding our team and recruiting a Resident Section Editor from ACOEP. This is a wonderful opportunity to critique manuscripts in emergency medicine, as well as learn from and connect with the editorial leade [...]

2003, 2020

The Medical Student’s Brief Guide to the 3-Minute Emergency Medicine Presentation

March 20th, 2020|Comments Off on The Medical Student’s Brief Guide to the 3-Minute Emergency Medicine Presentation

Alyka Glor Fernandez The Emergency Department (ED) is busy. Resident and attending physicians are occupied every minute of their shifts with patient care, procedures, orders, and charting. In addition, they are responsible for teaching and supervising medical students who rotate in the ED. While our [...]

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