When I graduated residency, I'm not sure I'd immediately recognize this. Now I do! ECGs are hard but we can get better!

NEW from Bridge Michigan: A great profile of our Nat’l Clinician Scholars Program at U-M IHPI alum Katie Wagner, MD MSc, who studies gender disparities in #cardiacsurgery and is part of U-M Health Frankel CVC: bridgemi.com/michigan-healt…

New EM PGY-1s: get GOOD at obtaining IV access. Not just planned & prepared US IVs— 16s during trauma, 22s in the hand, in the foot, 18 in the EJ…..you do not EVER want to be in a situation in which you need IV access immediately but can’t get it

I didn't get to know Dr. Kaji too well myself, but I have witnessed the evidence of her good work throughout my career, and across the entire emergency medicine community.

What does this ECG show? hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2024/08/what-d… Pendell Meyers

Join us on the health care for Kamala Harris call!

As a physician-legislator, I completely disagree. Our patients’ health is directly related to policies stemming from our elections. Rudolf Virchow said, “Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale.” Advocacy is fundamental to healthcare.

Let's leave Trump in the 2010s where he belongs. On to the next thing.

Thank you Bria Jones FOX6 and the team at FOX6 News for focusing on the fatal consequences of positional asphyxia, and the death of D'Vontaye Mitchell. fox6now.com/news/dvontaye-…

Characterizing Acute Pulmonary Embolism Cases Diagnosed at an Emergency Department Revisit Using a Statewide Clinical Registry annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… Alex Janke

Folks... it's time for project management. Simple is better. What are people doing?

The reality is that we've got a lot of medically complex, sick folks who need inpatient care, and we lack the literal space, staff, and stuff they need. We need a hospital care abundance agenda (Derek Thompson). We need to address barriers to capacity building, like CON.

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) is now accepting applications to fill Task Force member vacancies! Deadline to apply is 5pm Central 30 August 2024.  Click here to apply! tinyurl.com/2p9n7uxz

1/9 A 26 y/o woman presents with migratory arthritis. Started with a red and hot foot/ankle. Then went to the knee. Overuse, she was told. When ice/rest did not help, she went to a hospital. An arthrocentesis procedure was performed.

Correct. I guess it's fine to get fancy with the care and tech, but that's not low-hanging fruit. If we are really serious about mitigating on trauma-related morbidity and mortality, the answers are in smaller (lighter) vehicles and safer streets.

In our study in Circulation, we found that Black stroke patients had longer times to ED arrival and lower odds of EMS pre-notification. Regina Royan, MD MPH et al (Brian Stamm, MD, T. Lin, J. Baird, C. Becker, Rebecca Karb, T. Burton, Dawn Kleindorfer, MD, S. Prabhakaran, Tracy Madsen MD PhD) ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Great list.

Discussing PE risk stratification at EM/IM joint conference. Disease processes key points: be very mindful, very demure (because it's complex and evolving). The submassive/massive/everything else is not helpful and we can improve on the ESC guidance 🧵

I understand why Harris isn't doing this but it's important to repeat: - Immigrants commit crime at lower rates than native born Americans - Immigrants do not reduce native-born wages - Immigrants help the economy grow - America is great as assimilating immigrants

New collaboration with Adrian Haimovich, MD PhD et al in AEM Journal assessing older adult ED discharge instruction comprehension. 💡Medication and return precaution instructions were less likely understood than diagnosis, self-care, or follow-up instructions. doi.org/10.1111/acem.1…