Common Sense

• Updates in Geriatric Emergency Medicine

  Authors: Phillip Magidson, MD MPH; David Bostick, MD MPH; Erica Bates, MD; Robert Brown, MD Edited by: Jay Khapde, MD FAAEM and Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM Between the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census, the population over age 65 increased at a higher rate that the overall U.S. population. For the purposes of this article, […]
• Anaphylaxis in a Nutshell

  Authors: Eli Brown, MD; Kaycie Corburn, MD; Jacqueline Shibata, MD; Lee Grodin, MD Edited by: Jay Khadpe, MD FAAEM; Michael Bond, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense January/February 2015 The emergency department (ED) is the most common place for treatment of anaphylaxis. While epinephrine is clearly indicated, the Emergency Medicine Practice Update Guidelines of 2011 state, […]
• The Adult Learner Part 2: Where the Mark is Moving

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Andrew Phillips, MD Originally Published: Common Sense September/October 2017 Last month we explored the arguments for and against adult learning theory. We began with medical educators’ attraction to the subject, evaluated the philosophical and psychological concepts behind it, and concluded that it is unlikely that there is a difference in how […]
• International Emergency Medicine

  Image Source: Pixabay Author: Ryan Shanahan, MD2010-2011 AAEM/RSA PresidentOriginally Published: Common Sense Spring 2011 I recently returned from a trip to Haiti with a group of pediatric residents from Johns Hopkins. The person who runs the trip is a pediatric emergency medicine attending, and she invites the emergency medicine residents along. It was, in short, […]
• Dollars & Sense – Financial Planning for EM Residents

  Author: Joel M. Schofer, MD MBA RDMS FAAEM2014 Secretary-Treasurer, AAEM2013-2014 President, Virginia AAEMCommander, U.S. Navy Medical CorpsOriginally Published: Common Sense July/August 2014Dr. Schofer offers some excellent advice below, and his ongoing series on basic personal finance for emergency physicians is shaping up to be one of the best things Common Sense has published under my […]
• Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress in the Emergency Department

  Authors: Theodore J Segarra, Lee Grodin, Taylor Conrad, Ray Beyda, Kelly Maurelus, Michael C. BondOriginally Published: Common Sense September/October 2017 Over the last decade, non-invasive ventilation (NIV), including both bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) modes, has become an important tool in the management of ED patients with respiratory distress […]
• Advancing the Need to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Treatment by Using the Biomarker Procalcitonin

  Authors: Raymond Beyda, MD; Jackie Shibata, MD; Lee Grodin, MD; and Theodore Segarra, MD Editors: Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEM and Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense January/February 2017 ED physicians frequently treat and admit patients for infectious diseases. Judicious use of antimicrobial therapy is important in order to avoiding the development of antimicrobial […]
• The Challenge of Identifying a Septic Joint

  Authors: Raymond Beyda, MD; Lee Grodin, MD; Jackie Shibata, MD; Ted Segarra MD Editors: Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEM and Michael Bond, MD FAAEM Originally Published: Common Sense May/June 2017 The ED evaluation of patients with acute monoarthritis is often challenging given the broad differential diagnosis and significant morbidity which can result from missed septic arthritis (SA). […]
• Updates in the Emergency Department Management of Acute Liver Failure

  Authors: David Bostick, MD MPH; Megan Donohue, MD; Robert Brown, MD; and Nicholas Santavicca, MDEdited by: Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM and Kelly Maurelus, MD Originally Published: Common Sense July/August 2017 Introduction Patients with chronic liver disease and acute liver failure have disease specific needs for which Eps must be cognizant. Below we review topics […]
• Preparing for the Worst

  Image Source: Common Sense Author: Aaron C. Tyagi, MDSparrow/Michigan State UniversityChair, RSA Social Media CommitteeOriginally Published: Common Sense July/August 2017 We in the world of emergency medicine like to think of ourselves as ready for anything. I have often heard the mantra that we are ready for anything that “walks, rolls, or crawls through the […]

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