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How Memphis Fire Department Cracked the Code on Recruitment and Retention

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Lightning rounds 53: GI Q&A with Elliot Tapper

Critical Care Scenarios

From constipation to hepatorenal syndrome. Fan favorite Elliot Tapper (@ebtapper, @ebtapper), gastroenterologist, transplant hepatologist, academic chief of hepatology, and director of the cirrhosis program at the University of Michigan, returns to answer a grab-bag of GI questions. Learn more at the Intensive Care Academy! Takeaway lessons From constipation to hepatorenal syndrome.

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ACEP4U: Reinventing Research Education

ACEP Now

ACEP leaders and emergency medicine researchers knew in the late 1990s that the specialty lacked the respect and recognition afforded to other specialties in peer-reviewed medical education and research. Emergency physician, researcher, and instructor Edward Panacek, MD, FACEP, decided to do something about it with help from the College and his research colleagues.

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Jess Delaney Named 2025 James O. Page Legacy Scholarship Recipient

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Case Report: Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Aortic Dissection with POCUS

ACEP Now

A 55-year-old woman with medical history of well-controlled hypertension and renal cell carcinoma, status post-partial nephrectomy, presented to the emergency department (ED) with sudden-onset, 10-out-of-10 chest pain and pressure. She arrived via emergency medical services and was noted to be hypotensive with several blood pressure readings in the 60s/40s mm Hg range en route.

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Introducing the OneDose and ESO EHR integration

ESO

Great news for EMS agencies: ESO EHR and Hinckley Medical’s OneDose are now fully integrated, streamlining the dosing and documentation process for pre-hospital providers across the country. Through streamlined data transfer between the two apps that eliminates tedious reentry, this easier workflow will reduce risk of error while improving overall efficiency and patient outcomes.

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Pros and Cons: A Mandated Four-Year Residency

ACEP Now

PRO: Move to Mandated Four-Year Residency a Crucial Step by Andrew Garrett Little, DO, FACEP The recent proposal by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to extend all emergency medicine residency training from three to four years has ignited a fervent debate within the emergency medicine community. Having attended the ACGME update webinar in early February 2025 alongside fellow emergency medicine educators, the proposition initially sparked a sense of relief within me

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Dr. Joe Sachs and “The Pitt” Are Redefining Public Health Education Through Storytelling

ACEP Now

When a viewer sent a message saying they sought help for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after watching an episode of “The Pitt,” Joe Sachs, MD, FACEP, knew he was accomplishing something far beyond entertainment. For Dr. Sachs—a practicing emergency physician and executive producer of the Max original series—the comment underscored what he’s been working toward for decades: using scripted television to tell deeply human stories that double as public health education.

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TGC-Fast: Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU

The Bottom Line

Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU Gunst et al. N Engl J Med 2023;389:1180-1190 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2304855 Clinical Question In ICU patients not receiving early parenteral nutrition, does liberal glucose control (initiating insulin when blood glucose level [BGL] >11.9 mmol per liter [>215 mg per deciliter]) or tight glucose control (commencing insulin at BGL 4.4 to 6.

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The Role of Temperature Control in Emergency Medicine

Paramedics World

More than 150 million visits are made to emergency rooms (ERs) across the U.S. annually. Barring paramedics, ERs are the first point of contact for a wide range of cases,… The post The Role of Temperature Control in Emergency Medicine appeared first on Paramedics World.

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Two Injured in PA Dump Truck/Train Collision

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Bullet(s) With Butterfly Wings

EMS 20/20

A team of responders enter a scene made safe(ish) by PD to find a very unhappy gunshot victim. Are they able to calm his rage and treat appropriately? Listen and find out! A team of responders enter a scene made safe(ish) by PD to find a very unhappy gunshot victim. Are they able to calm his rage and treat appropriately? Listen and find out!

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AZ Officials Confirm Measles Cases as Outbreak Spreads

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Health officials in Arizona say there are four linked measles cases in Navajo County, marking the state's first outbreak this year.

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New Hampshire Public Safety Agencies Make the Case for Improved Broadband

FirstNet Authority

New Hampshire Public Safety Agencies Make the Case for Improved Broadband Blog joseph.rey@fir… Wed, 06/11/2025 - 14:06 By Bruce Fitzgerald, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Learn more about how FirstNet is transforming public safety communications — contact your local FirstNet Authority Public Safety Advisor and sign up for our discipline newsletters.

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Fire Apparatus Purchasing in 2025

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FAMA's data point to all apparatus manufacturers experiencing similar conditions, making the current purchasing atmosphere an industry-wide condition.

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ECG Pointers: Well, it seems as though your colon is trying to kill your coronaries

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Author: Lloyd Tannenbaum, MD ( EM Attending Physician, APD, Geisinger Wyoming Valley, PA) // Reviewer: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Hello and welcome back to ECG Pointers, a series designed to make you more confident in your ECG interpretations. This week, we feature a post from Dr. Tannenbaum’s ECG Teaching Cases , a free ECG resource. Please check it out.

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Police: Drunk Driver Rams FL Taco Stand, Nine Injured

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Four children were among nine people hurt when an underage drunk driving suspect crashed into tables surrounding a popular taco stand, according to investigators in Florida.

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Episode 110 – Salt in the Wound

The Curious Clinicians

Why does rubbing salt in a wound hurt so much? As a metaphor, “rubbing salt in a wound” means to make an already-bad situation worse for someone, especially in an unnecessary or gratuitous way. One hears the phrase constantly, about everything from taxes to sports. Perhaps one reason it’s so common is that, even if most of us have never literally had a handful of Diamond Crystal rubbed into an open blister, we intuitively understand it to be painful, even unusually painful (aft

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The Widely Varying Role of the Advanced EMT in Modern EMS

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Mobile Integrated Health Significantly Reduces Opioid-Related Deaths

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Former Student Opens Fire at Austrian School, Killing 10 and Taking His Own Life

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Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season

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President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but not until after a hurricane season.

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Police Enforce Downtown Curfew as Los Angeles Immigration Protests Continue

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