INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Can emergency departments really be completely prepared for the crush of trauma patients from catastrophic events such as the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 or even the Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia a few months ago?
ANN ARBOR, MI – Is your emergency department using tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) as often as it should for stroke patients? The answer might depend on its location.
HOUSTON – Training programs for pediatric emergency physicians are facing a difficult challenge: How to give fellowship participants exposure to ED procedures with fewer critical care events, more duty hour limitations, increasing attending presence and little tolerance for medical errors.
WASHINGTON, DC – The conventional wisdom has been that, when prescription opioids became harder to abuse, users turned to street drugs to control pain and maintain a high. That, according to the theory, is why more patients are showing up in your ED overdosed on heroin.
