AAEM: American Academy of Emergency Medicine on Medscape

Selections From The Journal of Emergency Medicine

The Use of Cephalosporins in Penicillin-allergic Patients Is the use of cephalosporin beneficial in penicillin-allergic patients -- or should it be avoided altogether?
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, May 2012
Management of the Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome
May 2012
Bedside Sonograph to Measure Central Venous Pressure
April 2012

Felon: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing What's the best way to manage this often deceptive fungal infection?
Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 2012
Alternative Methods of Analgesic Delivery in the ED
March 2012
Pearls: Managing Chronic Pain in the ED
January 2012

Editorial Board

Christopher Doty, MD, FAAEM, Program Director, Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine Combined Residency, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center & Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Glatter, MD, FAAEM, Chair, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
Joseph Lex, MD, FAAEM, Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Mark Reiter, MD, MBA, FAAEM, Attending Physician, Core Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
Joanne ("Dr. J") Williams, MD, FAAEM, Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine/Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine/Keck School of Medicine of USC, Physician Specialist/Emergency Medicine, LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Michael E. Winters, MD FAAEM FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, Co-Director, Combined EM/IM/Critical Care Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD