COVID-19

Image credit: Pexels Author: Matthew Carvey Originally published: Common Sense July/August 2020 Medic-1 is responding to an assault in a rural location. Dispatch notifies EMS that the patient has a fever and was put on mandatory self-isolation for 14 days. On arrival, EMS dons a sterile cap, goggles, an N95 mask, face shield, gown, and […]

In this episode, Joshua Sawyer, a medical student at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine and the AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council Southern Regional Representative, interviews Christine Babcock, MD MSc FAAEM, Program Director at the University of Chicago, David Snow, MD MSc FACEP, Program Director for the Loyola Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Charles A. Khoury MD MSHA FAAEM FACEP, Residency Program Director at the […]

This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. Image Credit: Needpix Author: David Fine, MD AAEM/RSA Board Members, Liaison to the AAEM/RSA Education Committee, and AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council Medical school is undoubtedly a stressful time, but studying medicine in the context of a pandemic is a challenge that brings about additional stressors, anxiety, […]

Image credit: Flickr This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Jaclyn H. Jansen, MD MSEmergency Medicine Resident Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine  Indianapolis, Indiana ABSTRACT BACKGROUND:  While patients with COVID-19 infection most frequently present with fever, dry cough, and dyspnea, other symptoms have been associated with viral infection. This […]

Image Credit: Pexels Author: Andy Mayer, MD FAAEMEditor-in-Chief Common SenseOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2020 Certainly, there is only one issue which is dominating all thoughts, prayers, and efforts on our planet right now and it is COVID-19. Hopefully where you are, your life and practice will only be incredibly inconvenienced and that your family, your […]