One of the best feelings as an EM doc: dispo’ing the entire ED on a night shift 😎

"What brings you to the ER today?" -Me "My wife's been bothering me to come in for days, she thinks I have a blood clot in my lungs." -Pt (A few blood tests and scans later) "You have a blood clot in your lungs" -Me Wife in the chair next to the patient:

🚁 Tactical EMS, concerts, and a raccoon named Beepers?! Meet Dr. Jacob Trammel, our newest EMS Fellow at WashU. 📸 Check out his #MeetTheFellows spotlight on Instagram! 👇 #EMS #EMSFellowship #WashUEMS instagram.com/p/DMlj0PsS91R/…

I’m a fan of nebulized TXA! Anecdote from residency: 40s F w/ massive hemoptysis iso DAH. Used nebulized TXA prior to intubation to help optimize and it worked extremely well such that we held off on ED intubation and she was safely monitored direct to OR for Bronch!

Many clinicians mistakenly believe ACS is essentially a solved problem. A significant minority of patients with one of medicine’s most common and deadliest diseases are failed by our current standard of care. CC: John Mandrola, MD

🚨 Huge congrats to our own Dr. Bridgette Svancarek, named 2025 Physician of the Year by MEMSA! 🏆 Her leadership, advocacy, and commitment to EMS excellence are second to none. We’re so proud! 💙🚑 #EMS #MEMSA #FeminEM #WashUEMS

Groundbreaking research from Zack Shinar and his team advancing Emergency Medicine and front-of-house cutting edge critical care 🧵

The average age of the aircraft in the US passenger fleet is approx 14 years - it would be incredibly rare to use aircraft older than 25 yrs. There are a variety of good reasons to support this. Why then does the US air ambulance fleet ( helicopters and fixed wing) routinely

Manual pulse checks in cardiac arrest? 54% accurate. POCUS pulse checks? 95% accurate. What are you doing in the field? Check out our new NAEMSP blog post! naemsp.org/pocus_pulseche… #FOAMed #EMS #POCUS #CardiacArrest

💊ECMO, Prehospital Critical Care, all while dropping some nasty beats?! Meet Dr. Nishil Patel (aka DJ YungXarelto), our newest EMS Fellow at WashU. 📸 Check out his #MeetTheFellows spotlight on Instagram! 👇 #EMS #EMSFellowship #WashUEMS instagram.com/p/DNMIa-KSiOj/…

EMOttawa Pub Time Motion Analysis of EP Workload in Urgent Care Settings Authors: Scott Odorizzi, Jeff Perry dx.doi.org/10.5811/westje… via WestJEM Avg time to see an ambulatory ED pt was 21.7 min. Low-acuity ambulatory patients take longer to assess now than twenty years ago.

Got my first abstract accepted to American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium! #ReSS25 #CardiacArrest