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Quick Poll: Procedures on the recently deceased?

January 26, 2015 By David Marcus Leave a Comment

Read the full post at: http://wp.me/p3YGc2-oak

Filed Under: Critical care, Emergency medicine, Ethics Tagged With: Annals of Emergency Medicine, bioskills, ethics, GME, Makowski, medical ethics, post mortem, procedural skills, storify

Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part B – Ethics and Such)

March 11, 2013 By David Marcus Leave a Comment

For the case intro, See “Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)” In an earlier post I introduced a case that got me thinking about intubating in a training environment.  Specifically, I wondered, how do we decide whether the junior-most or senior-most person in the room should intubate the patient with impending respiratory failure? O […]

Filed Under: Critical care, Emergency medicine, Ethics, FOAM, Medical education Tagged With: Critical Care, emergency medicine, FOAMed, GME, Intubation, meded, medical education, medical ethics, professionalism, residency, RSI

Coalition to Transform Advanced Care Summit – Impressions

February 4, 2013 By David Marcus Leave a Comment

CTAC held its National Summit on Advanced Illness Care on Jan. 29-30 at the National Academy of Sciences.  The summit name in and of itself doesn’t say much, but the twitterfeed piqued my interest.  CTAC2013 focused primarily on ways to improve the quality of care we provide towards the end of life.  To visit their […]

Filed Under: Ethics, FOAM, Narrative, Palliative Tagged With: CTAC, End of Life, IOM, links, medical ethics, NAS, Palliative, storify

Symposium on Palliative Care in the ED

January 18, 2013 By David Marcus Leave a Comment

Now, back to business after a prolonged absence due to personal circumstances.  Hopefully someone is still visiting… 😉 Since they don’t have a website yet, just wanted to post a flyer here about the upcoming 1st Annual Symposium on Palliative care in the Emergency Department to be held February 6th at the North Shore University Hospital in […]

Filed Under: Critical care, Emergency medicine, Ethics, Palliative Tagged With: Critical Care, emergency medicine, End of Life, humanism in medicine, medical ethics, NSLIJ, Palliative, professionalism, Symposium

Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)

November 3, 2012 By David Marcus Leave a Comment

We got the call during the early morning hours of a recent overnight shift: “EMS is 5 minutes out with an APE”. “Ape?” the intern asked. Acute Pulmonary Edema Several minutes later an entourage burst through the big double doors.  As she rolled down the hall flanked by EMT’s this morbidly obese seventy-eight year old […]

Filed Under: Critical care, Emergency medicine, Medical education, Professionalism Tagged With: Critical Care, emergency medicine, FOAMed, meded, medical ethics, professionalism, RSI, Ultrasound

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