Common Sense

• The Role of Ridesharing in Emergency Medicine

  Image credit: Pexels Authors: Jennifer Rosenbaum, MD; Nicole V. Lucas, MD; and Kraftin E. Schreyer, MD CMQ FAAE Originally published: Common SenseJanuary/February 2021 The advent and broad availability of ridesharing services, such as Lyft and Uber, are changing the way patients access medical services, and emergency departments (EDs) are taking notice. Health care providers are […]
• Chronic Pain and Addiction Patients Need Us Now More Than Ever

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Shane A. Sobrio, MDOriginally published: Common SenseMarch/April 2021 Flashback to 2019. Hong Kong protests were raging on, the U.S. Women’s National Team won the world cup, Donald Trump was being impeached, and the health care battle continued to revolve around the opioid epidemic. It wasn’t necessarily easy, but it was familiar. […]
• The Brink of Burnout

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Ryan P. Gibney, MD Originally published: Common SenseMarch/April 2021 It definitely felt different this new year. The normal buzz around town, packed stores, twinkling lights, and family gatherings uncharacteristically muted as compared to years past. I noticed a profound change in the hospital starting in mid-November: the winter chill was ever […]
• Resident Journal Review: Massive Transfusion Protocols (MTPs) in Traumatic Hemorrhage

  Authors: Taylor M. Douglas, MD; Taylor Conrad, MD MS; Wesley Chan, MD; and Christianna Sim, MD MPHEditor: Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEM and Kami Hu, MD FAAEM Most, if not all, emergency medicine clinicians are familiar with massive transfusion protocols (MTP), which were developed to create a systematic method for the administration of large volume resuscitation […]
• EM Away Rotations in a Pandemic

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Lauren Lamparter – President, AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council Originally published: Common SenseMarch/April 2021 For the third-year medical student, the emergency medicine residency application process starts with applying to away rotations. This year, uncertainty remains around the possibility of aways, but hopefully, as COVID-19 vaccines are distributed more widely, travel and away […]
• Who Will Be Their Advocate? A Commentary on Facing Illness Alone.

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Jennifer Gemmill, MD FAAEMOriginally published: Common SenseJanuary/February 2021 I am a terrible patient. I will refuse medicines prescribed to me. I will pick up my heavy 2-year-old just hours after delivering my newborn while the L&D nurses give me the evil eye. I will remove my own loop recorder in my […]
• SBO: Seize Back Onus – Focus on POCUS.

  Image credit: Pexels Authors: Ahmed Mamdouh Taha Mostafa, MD; Kevin C. Welch, DO; and Max Cooper, MD RDMS Originally published: Common SenseJanuary/February 2021 CaseA 76-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, diverticulitis, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, depression, and renal cell carcinoma status post remote nephrectomy who presented to our ED with four […]
• The Gender Gap in Medical Leadership: Glass Ceiling, Domestic Tethers, or Both?

  Image credit: Pexels Authors: Eveline Hitti, MD MBA FAAEM Lisa A. Moreno, MD MS MSCR FAAEM FIFEM Originally published: Common SenseMay/June 2017 The number of women enrolled in medical schools has risen from less than 25% in the 1970s to over 47% today.1,2 In spite of this, we continue to see striking under-representation of women […]
• From Chaos to Clarity: Leadership in the Resuscitation Bay

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Mary Haas, MDOriginally published: Common SenseNovember/December 2016 You are managing a busy emergency department, when you hear via the overhead paging system that a new patient has arrived in your resuscitation bay. You scurry from the farthest corner of your department, where you were evaluating a patient with multiple chronic medical […]
• The Open Door

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Lauren Lamparter – Medical Student Council President Originally published: Common SenseSeptember/October 2020 One of the reasons I am drawn to and pursuing a career in emergency medicine is its open-door policy — all are welcome, regardless of their ability to pay, the color of their skin, their legal status, or their […]

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