INTEGRATING EMERGENCY CARE WITH POPULATION HEALTH. An open-access, peer-reviewed emergency medicine journal, providing a forum for world emergency care systems
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
How does food insecurity play into a patient’s frequency visiting the emergency department?
@alexjestrella
aimed to answer this question.
Read more here:
"Point-of-care Ultrasound in Morbidity and Mortality Cases in Emergency Medicine: Who Benefits the Most?"
Read More Here:
#ultrasound
#EmergencyMedicine
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
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!
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
The criteria for diagnosing excited delirium rely on racial stereotypes and may encourage biased treatment of Black patients.
Read more here:
#emergencymedicine
#MedTwitter
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!
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:
In an interesting editorial,
@anitachary
explores ways we can address interpersonal racism directed at emergency physicians from patients. Read more here: .
#MedTwitter
#emergencymedicine
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:
We were pleased to award AAEM founding member, Dr. Gary Gaddis, with the MAAEM designation at
#AAEM22
. Dr. Gaddis cares deeply about AAEM’s values and puts in the work to execute them through his institution, AAEM, and internationally.
Congrats to Dr. Gary M. Gaddis on receiving the Amin Kazzi International Emergency Medicine Leadership award for his expertise in international education. Dr. Gaddis has served as the Scientific Chair or Co-Chair of numerous international EM congresses!
#AAEM22
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:
@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