Common Sense

• Resident Journal Review: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  Authors: Erica Bates, MD and Adeolu Ogunbodede, MD Editors: Michael Bond, MD FAAEM and Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense March/April 2018 Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes both Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a potentially debilitating chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract that affects over one million Americans.[1] […]
• Chief Complaint: I Feel Like I’m About to Have a Seizure

  Image Source: Pixabay Author: Elaine Holtzman Brown, MDUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center Board Liaison to the RSA Social Media CommitteeOriginally Published: Common Sense March/April 2018 Your patient is a 69-year-old female with a past medical history significant for seizure disorder, hypothyroidism, anxiety, and frequent urinary tract infections. She presents with a four-day history of generalized […]
• Evaluation of Syncope in the Emergency Department

  Authors: Theodore Segarra, MD; Lee Grodin, MD; Taylor Conrad, MD; Raymond Beyda, MD Editors: Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM and Kelly Maurelus, MDOriginally Published: Common Sense January/February 2018 As syncope is a common yet nebulous complaint, evaluation of the patient with syncope presents a unique challenge. Syncope is defined as a brief loss of consciousness […]
• The Opioid Epidemic: Where Are We Now?

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Aaron C. Tyagi, MDChair, RSA Social Media CommitteeOriginally Published: Common Sense January/February 2018 We have seen the rate of overdose mortality in general and mortality of overdoses related to opioids continue to rise.[1,2] As a society, we were slow to recognize this problem, for a number of reasons. Now it is […]
• Vetting FOAM

  Author: Jason Hine, MD FAAEM Originally Published: Common Sense May/June 2017 Emergency medicine is a relatively young specialty. Compared to internal medicine and surgery, the two pillars of medicine, it is essentially a toddler. But with this youthfulness comes an advantage. It has allowed us to be on the forefront of medical education’s evolution. We […]
• Hypertension Management in Stroke Patients: A Quick Update

  Image Credit: Wikimedia Author: Myles Jen Kin, DO FAAEMYoung Physicians Section Board of DirectorsOriginally Published: Common Sense January/February 2017 Stroke is a common disease seen by emergency physicians with over 800,000 new cases in the U.S. each year (Mozaffarian, 2016). Both ischemic (embolic or thrombotic) and hemorrhagic stroke patients frequently have derangement of their blood […]
• Wellness and Resiliency Summit

  2017 Wellness and Resiliency Summit Authors: Ashely Alker, MD, AAEM/RSA President 2017-18 and Robert Lam, MD FAAEM, AAEM Wellness Committee ChairOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2017 Emergency medicine has historically had the highest rate of reported burnout among all specialties. In the 2017 Medscape Lifestyle Survey, 59% of emergency physicians self-identified as “burned out.” A […]
• Update on Mechanical Ventilation in the ED

  Authors: Robert Brown, MD; Adeolu Ogunbodede, MD; Megan Donohue, MD; Hannah Goldberg, MD; Erica Bates, MDEditors: Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM; Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense November/December 2017 An increasing number of ED patients require critical care time and ICU admission.1 The ED length of stay for these patients has increased by 60 […]
• Young, Black & A Doctor: The Job Search

  Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Joshua A. Sherman, MD Clinical Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical CenterOriginally published: Common Sense November/December 2017 My story isn’t unique, but that in and of itself makes it worth writing. My name is Joshua Sherman; a New Orleans native, Chicago transplant and newly-minted Attending Emergency Physician in […]
• Dying to Save Lives

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Ashely Alker, MD MSc, PGY-3 2017-18 AAEM/RSA PresidentOriginally Published: Common Sense November/December 2017 I remember the day I was accepted to medical school. It was one of the happiest days of my life. The first six months of medical school I fought against the imposter syndrome that plagued my incredible reality: […]

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