A Middle-aged Female with Dyspnea
A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with worsening dyspnea on exertion. She had a history of deep venous thrombosis and within the past month had been traveling extensively….
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Meeting Our Patients Where They Are
SEE RELATED ARTICLE , P. 383 . Change is not only hard but also sometimes it is just plain ugly. When emergency medical services (EMS) first started to grow and…
Where Do Freestanding Emergency Departments Choose to Locate? A National Inventory and Geographic Analysis in Three States
Study objective We determine the number and location of freestanding emergency departments (EDs) across the United States and determine the population characteristics of areas where freestanding EDs are located. Methods…
Association Between the Opening of Retail Clinics and Low-Acuity Emergency Department Visits
Study objective We assess whether the opening of retail clinics near emergency departments (ED) is associated with decreased ED utilization for low-acuity conditions. Methods We used data from the Healthcare…
Adolescent Male With Right Shoulder Pain After Football Injury
A 16-year-old male adolescent with no significant medical history presented with right shoulder pain and dysphagia after a football injury. He was tackled and landed on his right shoulder. On…
Global Research Highlights
Editor’s note: Annals has partnered with a small group of selected journals of international emergency medicine societies to share from each a highlighted research study, as selected monthly by their…
A Contract Expires, an Emergency Medicine Residency Stands on the Brink
It was the day after Christmas, 2016, when the president and chief executive officer of the Summa Health System finally met with his emergency physicians, the Summa Emergency Associates (SEA)….
Nothing to Lose but Our Chains
A walk through practically any US business district in recent decades shows independent pharmacists replaced by CVS or Walgreen’s and mom-and-pop cafés supplanted by Starbucks or Peet’s. In some industries, the…
