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REBEL EM/EEM 2020 Fellowship Competition Winner

The REBEL EM/EEM 2020 Fellowship  Competition involved creating an infographic about a myth in Emergency Medicine. An important element of the design was the ease of sharing through social media to increase the reach and exposure of the educational content. ...

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Rebellion in EM 2019: Suboxone for Opioid Addiction via Salil Bhandari, MD

Background: The role of the ED physician in helping stop the opioid epidemic is three-fold: safe prescribing practices, beginning suboxone administration in the ED as part of an ED/Community Suboxone program, and providing Narcan prescriptions to at risk patients. Most ...

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Toxicology

Post Contrast Acute Kidney Injury (PC-AKI): We Don’t Need Another Retrospective Observational Study

Background: Computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is the current gold standard for diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism in the ED.  It has a high sensitivity, and specificity, is readily available, and can establish analternative diagnoses.  One issue with CTPA is that ...

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Renal and Genitourinary

Should Bed Up Head Elevated (BUHE) be the New Standard Position for RSI in the ED?

Background: Although the standard positioning for intubation is supine in the sniffing position, there has been recent literature in the past decade that elevating the head of the bed to 25 to 30 degrees may be a preferable setup for ...

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Procedures and Skills

The Q Word Superstition

Background: One of my favorite ED superstitions is that if someone says the word “quiet,” all hell is going to break loose. Many believe this superstition and as the ED inevitably gets busier as the day goes on, the person ...

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