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• Meditation in Medicine

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Puja Gopal, MDUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. Recently when watching the evening news, I came across an interesting segment focusing on how teaching meditation in middle and high schools in San Francisco has led to many positive measurable changes. School officials […]
• Blog Staff, Reviewers, & Mentors

  Thank you to our 2019-2020 peer review & editorial team! AAEM/RSA Leadership: Haig Aintablian, MDAAEM/RSA President UCLA Medical Center Crystal Bae, MD MScAAEM/RSA Vice President Temple University Joshua Elliott Novy, MD MBA MSAAEM/RSA Secretary-Treasurer Northwell Health MohammedMoiz Qureshi, MDAAEM/RSA Immediate Past PresidentPenn State AAEM/RSA Blog Leadership: Alex Gregory, MDBlog Editor-in-Chief Social Media Committee Chair University […]
• Guidelines for Reviewers

  Thank you for your contribution to the AAEM/RSA blog as a reviewer. The goal of the blog is not only to hone writers’ skills, but also reviewers’ skills so you are prepared to be a valuable asset to the scientific community. Your role as a reviewer is more like a coach than anything else, and […]
• Top 10 Most Read Posts of 2016

  Image Credit We would like to take a moment to recognize our Top 10 articles of 2016 and congratulate the authors (see below). Additionally, I would like to thank each of the AAEM/RSA Blog authors, reviewers, mentors, and editorial staff members for a wonderful and successful 2016. We are accepting articles for 2017 and we […]
• The Case of the Buffalo Chest

  Image Credit: Flickr This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Jeffrey Chen, MSIII UCSF School of Medicine Case: A 73-year-old man with a history of severe multi-vessel CAD status post CABG surgery 9 weeks ago presents after a high-speed motor vehicle collision with worsening SOB and chest pain. On exam, he is in […]
• Blakemore, Bleed Less: Massive Upper GI Bleeding and the GEBT Tube

  Image Credit: Gregory Wanner, DO PA-C This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Gregory Wanner, DO PA-CEmergency Medicine Resident, PGY-3 AAEM/RSA Publications Committee Chair ’16-’17 Author: Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c) Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine A version of this article was previously published on the Jefferson Emergency Medicine Residency Blog (www.jeffem.org), March 2016. […]
• Tips for Tackling the Pediatric Trauma

  Image: Bigstock Author: Shyam Sivasankar, MD Emergency Medicine Resident Stanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine AAEM/RSA Publications Committee Member This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. I am very fortunate to train at a facility with a child life specialist present in the emergency department. Their presence has helped me learn a lot about running pediatric trauma […]
• Electrical Storm: Don’t Just “Push Another Milligram of Epi”

  Bigstock This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Khalid M Miri, OMSIVWestern University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific “Are you ready to call it?” “Not yet, let’s push one more of epi.” Sound familiar? Despite doing proper CPR, defibrillating, and pushing all the ACLS meds, you know deep […]
• Digoxin Toxicity: Myths, Truths and Management

  Bigstock This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Andrew V. Bokarius, MD Emergency Medicine Resident University of Chicago AAEM/RSA Publication Committee Member The Case: A 68-year-old male with a history of heart failure presents with weakness, confusion, and visual disturbances including yellow/green halos and scotomas. Digoxin is on the list of current medications. […]
• When SCUBA diving goes wrong – Decompression Illness

  Bigstock Jonathan Morgan, MSIV This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Medical Student Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton A 54 year-old male presents to your emergency department complaining of dizziness that started shortly after completing a dive. He is a biologist who was studying the nearby river. He reports that about 10 minutes […]

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