What does leadership look like in emergency medicine? Based on the inspirational best-seller by Susan Cain, this presentation will take a close look at introverted and extroverted leadership in emergency medicine. The presenters will discuss an

Anwar D. Osborne, MD: Super Strategies to Help Your Super-Utilizers

Jul 5th, 2017 48m 53s

What really happens to the patient who presents to the ED night after night? How can emergency medicine help the system coordinate care so as to prevent further ED visits and hospital admissions? The speaker will share innovative and proven str

Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP: Do Your Patients Know You Care? Effective Tactics to Convey Empathy

Mar 1st, 2017 18m 3s

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the feelings and perspective of another person. There are numerous studies that have examined the science and art of empathy. Empathy has been proven to increase patient satisfaction and provider

Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP: FAST FACTS: Let’s Chat about Pediatric Trauma

Mar 1st, 2017 51m 11s

Join a panel of speakers in a “20 by 20” tour through the hottest topics in pediatric trauma. Clinical pearls and how to avoid pitfalls will be discussed during this non-stop course.

Annalise Sorrentino, MD, FAAP, FACEP: Pediatric Orthopedics: Avoid the Pitfalls

Jan 3rd, 2017 53m 18s

The identification and treatment of pediatric orthopedic injuries is an extremely difficult aspect of working in an ED due to the often paucity of radiological findings and relatively rarity of the conditions encountered. Yet we can’t miss thes

Catherine A. Marco, MD, FACEP: Against Medical Advice – When Should You Take “No” For An Answer?

Dec 2nd, 2016 40m 27s

How much information should be presented to a patient prior to allowing them to leave the ED against medical advice? How should we assess the competence of a patient to make such a decision? When can the EP forcibly treat a patient? These quest

Scott D. Weingart, MD, FACEP: Cruising the Literature: Trauma 2015

Dec 2nd, 2016 53m 59s

Trauma in 2015! Trauma management has been considered cook-book medicine, but there is still ongoing research to support changes in the management of patients. A review of this year’s top articles will be presented, with insight as to how to mo

Vikyhat S. Beberta, MD, FACEP, FACMT: REBOA: Is it Ready for Prime Time?

Nov 3rd, 2016 24m 55s

Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA). This is not a new concept but has been re-visited with advances in technology from the field of endovascular surgery. REBOA has the potential to positively influence outcome in

Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP: High-Risk Cases in EM: Select Topics

Nov 3rd, 2016 52m 23s

Emergency medicine is a high risk specialty. Certain clinical entities, however, are predictable sources of bad outcomes and associated medical malpractice claims and lawsuits. The speaker will review common areas associated with risk in EM, re

Jeanette M. Wolfe, MD: “But, I Didn’t Say Anything!” – Tips for Effective Nonverbal Communication in the ED

Oct 7th, 2016 46m 1s

Whether dealing with your teenager or the patient you see on your next shift, you have recognized that so much of communication is based in not what we say but how we say it. Whether it is simple thing like the way we dress to the more nuanced

Matthew C. DeLaney, MD: Lost in the FOAM: Free Open Access Medical Education for the Technologically Challenged

Sep 20th, 2016 49m 16s

Over the past several years, there has been an explosion in the use of various social media platforms, podcasts, and various websites devoted to Emergency Medicine. The term FOAM, or free open access medical education, is used to broadly catego

Andrew D. Perron, MD, FACEP: Concussion Update 2015 What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Don't Know

Sep 20th, 2016 44m 47s

The literature on concussion has grown exponentially over the past decade. CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), brain remodeling, return to play guidelines, and the connection of concussion to other diseases (e.g. ALS) are only beginning to

William Brady, MD; Sean Kivlehan, MD: Code Talkers: A Point-Counterpoint Dialogue of Cardiac Arrest Management and What They Don't Teach in ACLS

Sep 2nd, 2016 52m 36s

Confusion about cardiac arrest management and recent recommendations? Are there different interpretations of the guidelines and approaches to cardiac arrest care? This course is a friendly (and possibly not so friendly), high-level, dialogue of

Tiffany S. Hackett, MD, MBA, FACEP: Rapid Fire: The How and Why of Patient Callbacks: Doing it Right

Aug 17th, 2016 25m 35s

Calling back patients has improves patient care, satisfaction, and safety. The speaker will discuss the use of post-discharge callbacks as a method to improve the patient experience and quality of care. Challenging questions will be addressed s

Diana Nordlund, DO, JD: GOTCHA! The Medical Chart: Anticipating the Lawyer’s Review

Aug 2nd, 2016 53m 41s

During this interactive course, the speaker will review emergency medicine charts and discuss how wording factors into lawsuits. You will learn how specific charting can help avoid getting sued and/or win the case if there is litigation.

Teresa Bowen-Spinelli, MD: Rapid Fire: The Difficult Abdomen: Approaches to Patients with Chronic Abdominal Disorders

Jul 21st, 2016 17m 31s

Patients with chronic abdominal disorders such as cyclic vomiting syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, and gastroparesis can be challenging for emergency providers. When are symptom exacerbations indicative of more sinister pathology? What are t

George C. Willis, MD, FACEP: Rapid Fire: Surviving the Thyroid Emergency – the Highs and Lows

Jul 21st, 2016 17m 31s

This is a can’t miss life-threatening emergency for any emergency provider. Review the causes, pathophysiology, and treatment for thyroid storm and myxedema coma.

Michael A. Silverman MD, FACEP: How to NOT Screw Up Your First Job as an Attending

Jul 1st, 2016 46m 57s

Starting a new job is exciting and full of opportunities. Whether you’re an experienced emergency physician or starting your first job out of residency, opportunities present themselves both in and out of the ED that could land you in hot water

Kinjal A. Sethuraman, MD: Rapid Fire: MUDPILES and Beyond - Closing the Gap

Jun 28th, 2016 15m 31s

MUDPILES – a familiar pneumonic for the evaluation of the ED patient with a high anion-gap metabolic acidosis. The speaker will review how to apply this pneumonic to the ED patient and when to expand the differential diagnosis beyond MUDPILES.

Vicki E. Noble, MD, RDMS, FACEP: Rapid Fire: Rethinking the Radiation in Renal Colic!

Jun 28th, 2016 21m 25s

Over the last two decades, the utilization of CT scan for nephrolithiasis has increased nearly 10 fold without an increase in diagnosis, stone complications or hospitalization rates. Recently clinical decision rule to determine which patients

Lillian L. Emlet, MD, FACEP: Rapid Fire: Hyperoxia – Too Much of a Good Thing?

Jun 15th, 2016 20m 11s

Hyperoxia has been quoted as being independently associated with in-hospital mortality. Can the care we provide in the ED impact the patient’s outcome? Is there a “sweet spot” for oxygen titration? Should our therapy differ for patients statu

Fredrick M. Abrahamian, DO, FACEP, FIDSA: Rapid Fire: Lung Bugs and Drugs 2015

Jun 15th, 2016 24m 20s

"Pneumonia Alert! Did you order antibiotics?” the charge nurse asks you. It seems there is always some new process by which we identify patients with pneumonia, but what really is the current evidence behind the treatment of this common disea

Tiffany S. Hackett, MD, MBA, FACEP: Difficult Conversations in the ED

Jun 3rd, 2016 56m 4s

Emergency physicians deal with difficult conversations every shift. Whether it is resolving misunderstandings between provider and the patient/family regarding testing and treatment or discussing highly charged topics like “code status,” the ED

George C. Willis, MD, FACEP: Aortic Dissection: Are You Missing This Diagnosis?

Jun 2nd, 2016 25m 39s

Thoracic aortic dissection is an uncommon but extremely lethal condition that emergency physicians should be keenly aware of. Aortic dissection has a high mortality rate, and is commonly missed for a number of reasons. This presentation will hi

Haney Mallemat, MD: Rapid Fire: Dyspnea Differential Diagnosis

May 31st, 2016 24m 58s

It’s unusual to go through a shift without seeing a patient with shortness of breath. Many times the diagnosis is obvious – asthma, COPD, or CHF. But not always. Some patients will present with dyspnea from anemia, or a PE, cardiac tamponade,