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SGEM#370: Listen to your Heart (Score)…MACE Incidence in Non-Low Risk Patients with known Coronary Artery Disease

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Case: You are working a shift in your local community emergency department (ED) when a 47-year-old male presents with chest pain.

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Traumatizing Patients with Trauma Activations

ACEP Now

Consent to a trauma evaluation is presumed when a patient presents as a trauma activation; implied consent applies to all life-threatening emergencies and is not unique to trauma activations. Wearing a cut-up trauma sheet as a hijab, she walked out of our emergency department several hours later, intact and not traumatized.

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Episode 107: Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Chest Pain with Dr. Mike Berkenbush

The Overrun Podcast

The conversation highlights the need for a broader approach to chest pain, beyond just focusing on heart attacks. Takeaways EMS education should focus on a broader approach to chest pain, beyond just heart attacks. Mike Berkenbush joins the podcast to discuss the challenges in EMS education on differentiating chest pain.

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Young ACEP Member Is Passionate About Breaking Down Barriers to Care

ACEP Now

His family had insurance for just two years when his father had a heart attack and needed open heart surgery. For example, he knows follow-up care is critical for many ED patients, but it can be challenging to find transportation to in-person care. Inspired, he carried that problem-solver energy into medical school.

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Workplace Violence and Mental Health in Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

1 The questions raised by this tragedy are many: How did a gun make its way into the emergency department in the first place? Data from the National Institutes of Health suggests that up to three percent of ED visits result in a weapon being confiscated, and there has been an increase of 20 percent of firearm deaths since 2019.

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The Art of the Oral Presentation: An Intern’s Guide

EMDocs

Author: Joshua Lowe, MD (EM Attending Physician, San Antonio, TX) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Manpreet Singh, MD (@MPrizzleER); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) The fluorescent lights above cast a clinical pallor over the bustling ED. The symphony of sounds in the Emergency Department can be overwhelming.