ACEP Frontline - Emergency Medicine

In this episode of The Frontline, we talk with Dr. Paula Tanabe about sickle cell disease and the current landscape in emergency medicine with some of the challenges and opportunities to take care of these patients.

Emergency Medicine as a profession is only a bit over 50 years old and past decisions and guidelines have been based on evidence and research outside EM. The emergency department is a unique environment and management should be guided by emergency medicine based researched. That is the goal of the Emergency Medicine Foundation(EMF) and this year, it turns 50. We are joined at ACEP22 by Drs. Jeff Goodloe, Mo Canellas, and Adrian Haimovich about EMF and EM centered research.

In this episode of The Frontline, we talk with Dr. Matthew Wilkinson discussing the evolution of abscess management and the role their invention plays in that management. https://emdevicelab.com/

This special episode of the podcast is from our 1st annual podcast summit at ACEP22 in San Francisco featuring ACEP Frontline and The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Join Dr. Ryan Stanton and Dr. Ken Milne for the first in hopefully many gatherings.

In the newest addition to our "author series", we talk with Dr. Calvin Sun with his new book, Monsoon Diaries. This book is about Dr. Sun's travels to 190 countries, his experiences, and weaving it in with emergency medicine. https://monsoondiaries.com/

In this special ACEP22 edition of the podcast, we talk about opportunities within the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service. https://www.usphs.gov/professions/physician/ https://www.usphs.gov/ready-reserve

In this episode of The Frontline we talk with Dr. Janet Lin about the current landscape and management of hypoglycemia in the prehospital and EM settings as well as tips on prevention. This episode supported by Xeris Pharmaceuticals.

We talk with Ann McAdams, investigative reporter with WECT News 6 from Wilmington NC about Novant Health NHRMC with a recent investigation into wait times, staffing, and a waiting room code. This is regarding a single facility, but represents challenges across the country with volumes, wait times, and staffing. Update story from WECT 6 from 9/22/22 -https://www.wect.com/2022/09/22/state-treasurer-nurses-hospital-putting-profit-over-patients/

Head injuries are a common presentation in the ER. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Jacob Stelter about evaluation of TBI/head injury in the ER. This podcast is supported by Brainscope Company Inc.

In this replay of our author series edition of ACEP Frontline, we talk with Sam Quinones about is most recent book, "The Least of Us" which is a follow-up to "Dreamland". This is an eye opening look at the opioid epidemic in the US.