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INTEGRATING EMERGENCY CARE WITH POPULATION HEALTH. An open-access, peer-reviewed emergency medicine journal, providing a forum for world emergency care systems
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If you think mechanical compression devices such as LUCAS improve rates of ROSC, you may be surprised at what
@MackSheraton
found. Read more here .
#medtwitter
#emergencymedicine
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WestJEM will no longer use the term “provider” in reference to physicians. Read why here: .
#medtwitter
#physicians
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WestJEM is very happy to welcome Dr. Gavin Budhram and Dr. Susan Wilcox to our team of Decision Editors! Dr. Budhram has a background in
#ultrasound
. Dr. Wilcox is the first female physician to accept this post and has a background in
#Cardiaccare
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Who Are the Most Influential Emergency Physicians on Twitter?
#FOAMed
#FOAMus
#openaccess
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Hiatal
#Hernia
Mimicking Aortic Aneurysm on Point-of-care
#Echocardiography
#POCUS
#ThursdayThoughts
#ThursdayMotivation
#FOAMus
#hearthealth
#cardiaccare
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Right Atrial Thrombus or Chiari Network?
#WednesdayWisdom
#cardiac
#FOAMed
#POCUS
#emergencymedicine
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#FOAMed
Inferior Vena Cava Measurement With
#Ultrasound
: What is The Best View and Best Mode?
#FOAMUs
#MedEd
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How does food insecurity play into a patient’s frequency visiting the emergency department?
@alexjestrella
aimed to answer this question.
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"Point-of-care Ultrasound in Morbidity and Mortality Cases in Emergency Medicine: Who Benefits the Most?"
Read More Here:
#ultrasound
#EmergencyMedicine
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WestJEM is very happy to welcome Dr. Donna Mendez to our team of Section Editors in
#PediatricEmergencyMedicine
!
#TuesdayMotivation
#openaccess
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Pre-Retinal Hemorrhage on Point-of-care
#ultrasound
#ThursdayThought
#EmergingTech
#EyeHealth
#health
#EmergingTechnologies
#POCUS
#FOAMed
#diagnosis
#MedEd
#Emergency
#openaccess
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Hematometrocolpos in a Pubescent Girl with Abdominal Pain
#WednesdayWisdom
#POCUS
#ultrasound
#MedEd
#FOAMed
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Antivenom Treatment Is Associated with Fewer Patients using Opioids after Copperhead Envenomation
#TuesdayThoughts
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#openaccess
#research
#opioids
#patientsafety
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Point of care echo is a useful tool during cardiac arrest, but how often is it utilized by emergency physicians?
@ywolfe
et al. address this question. Read more here:
#MedTwitter
#emergencymedicine
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Comparison of Static versus Dynamic
#ultrasound
for the Detection of Endotracheal
#Intubation
#TuesdayThoughts
#TuesdayMotivation
#healthcare
#FOAMus
#POCUS
#traumainformed
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#ultrasound
- Guided Peripheral Intravenous Line Placement: A Narritive Review of Evidence-based Best Practice
#WednesdayWisdom
#education
#Nursing
#MedEd
#PatientCare
#forbeshealth
#POCUS
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Rapid Diagnosis of Rhabdomyolysis with
#POCUS
#Ultrasound
#FOAMed
#FOAMus
#emergencymedicine
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Ultrasound Guided Radial Artery Compression to Assess Blood Pressure
#FOAMed
#Ultrasound
#FOAMus
#POCUS
Read here:
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Sex as a Biological Variable in
#Emergency
Medicine Research and
#Clinical
Practice: A Brief Narrative Review
#Healthcare
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#acep17
#TuesdayThoughts
#Emergency
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Evidence-Based Interventions that Promote Resident Wellness from the Council of Emergency Residency Directors
#ThursdayMotivation
#ThursdayThoughts
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#openaccess
#education
#research
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Transportation Preferences of
#patients
Discharged from the
#emergency
Department in the Era of
#ridesharing
Apps
#MondayMorning
#mondaythoughts
#MedEd
#patientsafety
#FOAMed
#openaccess
#PatientExperience
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FascIOtomy:
#ultrasound
Evaluation of an Intraosseous Needle Causing Compartment Syndrome
#POCUS
#WednesdayWisdom
#wednesdaythoughts
#diagnostics
#health
#EmergencyMedicine
#EmergingTechnologies
#FOAMus
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#openaccess
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#FOAMed
Serum Lactate Predicts Adverse Outcomes in
#Emergency
Department Patients With and Without Infection
#MedED
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Evidence-Informed Practice:
#Diagnostic
Questions in Urinary Tract Infections in the Elderly
#MedEd
#FOAMed
#PatientEngagement
#PatientExperience
#NurseTwitter
#openaccess
#TuesdayThoughts
#TuesdayMotivation
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An Unexpected Cause of Persistent Coughing
#TuesdayThoughts
#TuesdayMotivation
#POCUS
#cardiacrehabilitation
#ultrasound
#emergency
#EmergingTech
#patient
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Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Physicians in the United States
#mondaythoughts
#research
#education
#medtwitter
#MedEd
#FOAMed
#openaccess
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#Ultrasound
vs. CT for Severity of Hydronephrosis and Its Importance in Renal Colic
#FOAMUs
#FOAMed
#POCUS
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Can
#ER
Docs perform Common Carotid Doppler Flow to Assess Volume Responsiveness?
http://t.co/rdRp0WJi2K
#FOAMed
http://t.co/FqQETv9ZVJ
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Yogaman: An Inexpensive, Anatomically-detailed Chest Tube Placement Trainer
#WednesdayWisdom
#WednesdayMotivation
#EmergingTechnologies
#medicine
#Training
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#openaccess
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Read about how the Social Media Index was developed here:
http://t.co/DDQljIkG1Y
@Brent_Thoma
http://t.co/gOInzGmpi4
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Recent federal COVID-19 laws impact emergency docs -- as frontline workers and advocates.
Learn more about the laws and what’s next here:
By
@marisadowling
,
@AishaTerryMD
,
@NKirilichinMD
,
@DrJenLee
, and
@JBlanchardMD
of
@GW_MFA
#COVID19
#Congress
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WestJEM ranks 12/84 worldwide, per the
@ScimagoJR
index for 2018 - a jump from a rank of 16/78 titles in 2017!
The 2018
@Scopus
CiteScore ranks WestJEM at 11/77 EM journals worldwide, up from 16/78 in 2017!
Thank you to our entire WestJEM community for its continued support!
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Point-of-care Ultrasonography of a Rare Cause of Hemoperitoneum
#MondayMorning
#MondayMotivation
#ultrasound
#EmergencyMedicine
#MedEd
#FOAMed
#diagnostics
#openaccess
#POCUS
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The Impact of Due Process and Disruptions on Emergency Medicine Education in the United States
#mondaythoughts
#educational
#MondayMotivaton
#research
#MedEd
#medstudenttwitter
#openaccess
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#Ultrasound
in the Identification of Long. Axis in Soft-Tissue Foreign Body Extraction
#CaseReport
#FOAMed
#FOAMus
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Effective communication with patients having suicidal thoughts is critical, but how do we best perform lethal means counseling for suicidal adults in the ED?
@EmmyBetz
explored this question.
Find out more here:
#firearms
#suicideprevention
#gunviolence
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Development of a Novel
#ultrasound
guided Peritonsillar Abscess Model for
#Simulation
#POCUS
#TuesdayThoughts
#TuesdayMotivation
#FOAMus
Training Read Here:
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Injuries Associated with
#Hoverboard
Use: A Case Series of
#emergency
Department Patients
#GivingTuesday
#MedEd
#education
#TuesdayThoughts
#health
#AndTheMoralOfTheStoryIs
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Team Size and
#stretching
#exercise
Effects on Simulated Chest Compression Performance and Exertion
#CPR
#WednesdayWisdom
#Wednesdaymotivation
#PatientCare
#cprsaveslives
#education
#MedEd
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AAEM/RSA & Western Journal of Emergency
#Medicine
#research
Competition
at the 24th Annual Scientific Assembly in
#SanDiego
, CA! Abstract Deadline Nov 27th
#ThursdayMotivation
#ACEP17
#FOAMed
#MedEd
#education
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Evaluation of an Intervention to Improve Quality of Single-best Answer Multiple-choice Questions
#MondayMotivation
#MondayMood
#Exams
#Training
#medschool
#FOAMed
#education
#openaccess
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Orbital Compartment Syndrome Following Mechanical Fall
#MondayMorning
#MondayMotivation
#eyes
#traumainformed
#trauma
#Diagnostics
#FOAMed
#Medical
#PatientExperience
#emergencyprep
#openaccess
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Discriminating Between Legitimate & Predatory Open Access Journals: Report from the Intl. Federation for EM Research
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Not all Sore Throats are Pharyngitis.
#diagnosis
#SoreThroat
#emergency
#radiology
#PatientCare
#MedEd
#imaging
#ThursdayThoughts
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Modification of Daly’s Do-it-yourself,
#ultrasound
guided
#Pericardiocentesis
Model for Added External Realism
#POCUS
#EmergencyMedicine
#EmergingTech
#doitbetter
#ThursdayThoughts
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The criteria for diagnosing excited delirium rely on racial stereotypes and may encourage biased treatment of Black patients.
Read more here:
#emergencymedicine
#MedTwitter
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Utility of the History and Physical Examination in the Detection of Acute Coronary Syndromes in ED
#heartattack
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Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection After Sepsis Protocol Antibiotics
#TuesdayMotivation
#TuesdayThoughts
#FOAMed
#openaccess
#research
#PatientCare
#medicine
#medtwitter
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"Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound Is More Sensitive than Chest Radiograph for Evaluation of COVID-19"
#emergencymedicine
#COVID
#ultrasound
#screening
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WestJEM would like to thank the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors Board of Directors for helping to make this collaborative special issue possible! Click to discover novel research questions and designs!
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Today's featured WestJEM article is "Ultrasound Guided Placement of Single-Lumen Peripheral Intravenous Catheters in the Internal Jugular Vein"
Full-text article available at:
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Evaluation of prehospital
#ultrasound
by
#EMS
providers.
http://t.co/6V1CcjviKq
#meded
#FOAMed
@SonoSpot
http://t.co/USwTu6f2zL
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In an interesting editorial,
@anitachary
explores ways we can address interpersonal racism directed at emergency physicians from patients. Read more here: .
#MedTwitter
#emergencymedicine
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#Asteroids
® and Electrocardiograms: Proof of Concept of a Simulation for Task-Switching
#Training
#mondaythoughts
#MondayMood
#MondayMotivation
#EmergingTechnologies
#Careeradvice
#doctors
#medicine
#openaccess
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Occult Iliac Deep Vein Thrombosis in Second Trimester
#pregnancy
: Clues on Bedside
#ultrasound
#POCUS
#health
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Workplace violence in healthcare remains a serious issue especially in the ED, and it isn’t limited to just doctors and nurses; it impacts all staff members. As
@SMcGuireMD
demonstrated, no one is immune.
#violenceinhealthcare
Read more here:
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Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum on Bedside US - Zachariah,
@SonoSpot
@njoshi8
via
http://t.co/HtOD4dY3iA
#FOAMus
#FOAMed
http://t.co/tArPti2OCA
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Accidental Hydrogen Peroxide Ingestion
#ThursdayThoughts
#diagnostics
#diagnosis
#FOAMed
#ThursdayMotivation
#openaccess
#education
#MedEd
#Emergency
#health
#Pharmaceutical
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WestJEM Associate Editor Dr. Gary Gaddis received two awards from AAEM! See which awards he was given here: .
#emergencymedicine
#MedTwitter
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WestJEM Associate Editor Dr. Gary Gaddis received two awards from AAEM! See which awards he was given here: .
#emergencymedicine
#MedTwitter
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Ultrasound-guided Placement of a Foley Catheter Using a Hydrophilic Guide Wire
#ultrasound
#TuesdayThoughts
#TuesdayMotivation
#FOAMus
#Nursing
#NursesWeek
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Why Patients Return to the
#ED
after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury within 72 hours?
http://t.co/T8KrR4KiJF
#FOAMed
http://t.co/BPcepfgHQW
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A Needs Assessment for a Longitudinal Emergency Medicine Intern Curriculum
#FOAMed
#EmergencyMedicine
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In
@EPMonthly
's podcast, Dr. Langdorf and Dr. Phillips of WestJEM speak on differences of EM resident graduates' training, and the journal’s stance on interchangeably referring to both as providers.
Listen here:
WestJEM’s article:
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@LucasCCarlson
and colleagues sought to better understand how demographic and socioeconomic factors are associated with ED utilization for potentially preventable conditions.
Read more here:
#medtwitter
#emergencymedicine
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