ACEP Frontline - Emergency Medicine

This is a special episode of The Frontline breaking down the recent report from the AHRQ entitled "Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systemic Review". We discuss 10+ critical flaws in the report and how good intention may result in more harm than good. We chat with Dr. Gabe Kelen, Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins who takes us through the report, uncovering a number of critical errors the produce an incredibly flawed and likely grossly inaccurate publication.

As we transition from the years that were almost exclusively COVID to a potpourri of many things viral and others, we drop in with "Big Jim", Dr. James Neuenschwander for an update on high flow nasal cannula. We look at the supporting evidence and the role this bucket of technology plays in our airway management tool box. You also get to hear the broken nose bowling story! This episode is supported by Fisher & Paykel.

The EM documentation guidelines are changing significantly on January 1st of 2023. We have talked with Dr. Jason Adler earlier in 2022(check out the podcast) and now we get a more detailed update as recorded at the Kentucky ACEP Annual Meeting on November 15th, 2022. I will drop the ACEP documentation cheat sheet on the ACEP Frontline Facebook page.

Join the conversation with Dr. Kathryn Hawk and Dr. Scott Weiner as they discuss where are we now. The opioid epidemic is now old enough to rent a car and during that time has evolved. Unfortunately, COVID caused a spike in overdoses and deaths. In this episode, we talk about the status, education, and management options. Supported by an Unrestricted Grant from NIDA Resources... https://www.acep.org/opioidadvisorynetwork https://www.acep.org/administration/quality/equal/emergency-quality-network-e-qual/

Immune related therapies are growing in cancer care as modern treatments utilize our own systems to attack the disease. This also means we will see growing numbers of these patients in the emergency department with complications from these interventions. We chat with Dr. Chris Coyne who is "geeking out" about the technology and our role in EM. This episode was supported by an unrestricted grant from Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical for the Recognition and Management of Immune Related Adverse Events.

When we practice medicine, legal exposure is a reality of the business. In this episode, we take a deeper dive with regard to legal risk, exposure, and prevention with return Frontline guest, Dr. Nathan Schlicher.

Everyone needs a good physician, even the leader of the free world. In this episode, we interview Dr. Sean Conley who was the Physician to the President for Donald Trump. This episode also features Dr. Yev Maksimenko and Sriram Venkatesan. They both helped make the interview happen. This is a cool look behind the life at the White House and around the world.

The assessment of head injuries in the emergency department and front line settings is evolving quickly and now plasma tests and other technologies are a promising step forward regarding risk assessment and imaging stewardship. Please join Dr. Robert Welch in the conversation. This episode supported by Abbott Point of Care.

In this episode we review the approach and management of the difficult pediatric airway with Dr. Al Sacchetti. This was recorded at ACEP22 in San Francisco.

We have talked MAB in the past when we were hot and heavy with COVID-19. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Donald Yealy regarding the state of the union with COVID, MAB, and research. This episode is supported by unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithKline.