ED Toolkit

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RESOURCES

 

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT LINKS

Applications

IMedical Apps

http://www.imedicalapps.com/specialty/emergency-medicine/

A publication devoted to medical app news and reviews with a strong EM section.

Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine iPhone App Reference

https://sites.google.com/site/stanfordemapps/free-apps

AgileMD

https://www.agilemd.com/home

Web, mobile, HER integrated. Provides access to guidelines, protocols, and reference information.

Emergency Central

http://www.unboundmedicine.com/products/emergency_central

Collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug Guide, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals.

EMRA Apps

https://www.emra.org/publications/mobile-applications/

Mobile applications by the Emergency Medicine Residents Association, including Antibiotic Guide, PressorDex, Pediatric Airway, EM rashes, Basics of EM and a pediatric dosage calculator

ERres

http://www.expeditiondocs.com/apps/erres/

Contains various calculators, medication lists, algorithms, decision rules, clinical policies and other core content.

Pepid for EDs

http://www.pepid.com/solutions/emergencydepartments/

Differential diagnosis generator, toxicology reference, drug database, drug interactions checker, dosing calculators, emergency protocols, algorithms, assessments, illustrations.

Sono Support

http://www.sonosupport.com/

Provides information to perform clinical ultrasound examinations at bedside..

Palm EM

http://www.palm-er.com/

Emergency Conditions, Ultrasound, Clinical Decision Rules, Medication and Pediatric weight-based equipment and dosing references.

Eye Emergency Manual

http://www.aci.health.nsw.gov.au/networks/ophthalmology/about/eem

Guide to management of common eye emergencies.

Heart Pathway

http://www.decisionpointinformatics.com/HEART/

Uses an evidence-based algorithm to risk-stratify patients with acute chest pain.

WikiEM

https://www.wikem.org/wiki/WikEM:Mobile_Apps

The mobile app for this EM open-access reference resource.

Associations

American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

www.aaem.org

American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident & Student Association (AAEM/RSA) (AAEM

www.aaemrsa.org

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)

www.aast.org

American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)

www.abem.org

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

www.acep.org

American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP)

www.acoep.org

American Trauma Society (ATS)

www.amtrauma.org

Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD)

www.cordem.org

Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA)

www.emra.org

European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM)

www.eusem.org

International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM)

www.ifem.cc

National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP)

www.naemsp.org

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)

www.saem.org

Blogs

Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

www.aliem.com

Aimed at academic ED professionals, with case studies, book reviews, and interviews.

Broad Complex

http://broadcomplex.com.au/blog/

Blog for the EDs of Australia’s Footscray and Sunshine hospitals, with a focus on continuing education.

Charlie’s ED

http://scghed.com/

Blog for the ED of Australia’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Mostly continuing education.

EMCrit Blog

http://emcrit.org/

EMCrit is about optimal critical care and resuscitation.

Dr Smith’s ECG Blog

http://emcrit.org/

ECGs interpreted by a faculty physician at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

ECG of the week

http://jhcedecg.blogspot.com

ECGs interpreted by a team of cardiologists and ER doctors.

EM Docs

http://emdocs.net/

Clinical content from a team of seven ER physicians

EM Education

http://emeddoc.org/

With a focus on EBM

EM Lit of Note

http://www.emlitofnote.com/

Musings on publications and studies relevant to EM.

EM Tutorials

http://emtutorials.com

Case studies and podcast from a New Zealand ER physician.

Emergency Medicine Journal

http://blogs.bmj.com/emj

Highlights of the EMJ, along with some UK emergency medicine news

Emergency Medicine PharmD

http://empharmd.blogspot.com.au/

Emergency medicine from the perspective of a pharmacist.

Emergence Phenomena

http://singem.blogspot.sg

Lectures, literature, and web resources curated by a pair of Singaporean ER physicians

Emergency Medicine Ireland

http://emergencymedicineireland.com/

Mostly case studies with a little emergency medicine news.

Emergucate

http://www.emergucate.com

Case studies–Lab, imaging, ECG–from a group of Fellows of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine

Fickle Finger

http://www.ficklefinger.net/blog/

An EM physician-consultant assesses the present and future of health and emergency care.

FOAM EM RSS

http://www.foamem.com/

An RSS feed for FOAM blogs in emergency medicine.

Kangaroo Island Doc

http://kidocs.org/

Thoughts on rural medicine from an ER doctor in Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Life in the Fast Lane

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/

A FOAM blog with a number of searchable databases.

M2E Too! Blog

http://journals.lww.com/em-news/blog/M2E/Pages/default.aspx

News curated by a professor of emergency medicine at Augusta University, Georgia

PulmCCM

http://pulmccm.org/main/

“..all the best in pulmonary and critical care..”

Resus.Me

http://resus.me/

Resuscitation Medicine Education

The Skeptics’ Guide to EM

http://thesgem.com/

“using social media to provide you with high quality, clinically relevant, critically appraised, evidence based information.”

St. Emlyn’s

http://stemlynsblog.org/

“..a collection of people and projects aimed at improving Emergency Medicine…”

The Trauma Professional’s Blog

http://regionstraumapro.com/

Calculators (Online)

Mdcalc

http://www.mdcalc.com/specialty/emergency/

Emergency Medicine Journal Club Calculators

http://www.emjournalclub.com/calculators/

Also with links to prediction rules and clinical guidelines.

Access Emergency Medicine

http://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/calculator.aspx

Cornell University Medical Calculators

http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~spon/picu/calc/medcalc.htm

Clinical Guidelines

American Academy of Emergency Medicine

http://www.aaem.org/em-resources/clinical-practice-statements

American College of Emergency Physicians

https://www.acep.org/clinicalpolicies/

Annals of Emergency Medicine

http://www.annemergmed.com/content/clinicalpolicies

Guideline Central

https://www.guidelinecentral.com/summaries/specialties/emergency-medicine/

National Guideline Clearinghouse

https://www.guideline.gov/search?f_Clinical_Specialty=Emergency+Medicine&fLockTerm=Emergency+Medicine

Geriatric ED Guideline, (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine)

http://www.saem.org/education/geriatric-ed-guidelines

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

http://www.caep.ca/position-statements-and-guidelines

EB Medicine

https://www.ebmedicine.net/topics.php?paction=setFilterOpts&publication_id=4

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine

http://www.rcem.ac.uk/Shop-Floor/Clinical%20Guidelines/College%20Guidelines/

Continuing Education

HIPPO Ed

http://www.hippoed.com/em/

Online LLSA, Board Review, Pediatrucs and other CME

American Heart Association

http://cpr.heart.org/AHAECC/CPRAndECC/FindACourse/Courses/UCM_473164_Courses.jsp

CPR, First Aid and Emergency Cardiovascular Care courses.

American College of Surgeons

https://www.facs.org/quality%20programs/trauma/atls

Find an Advanced Trauma Life Support course near you.

Advance Pediatric Life Support

http://www.aplsonline.com/

Courses and online resources

Comprehensive Advanced Life Support

http://www.calsprogram.org/

Designed for the emergency medical training needs of rural healthcare teams.

Emedhome

http://www.emedhome.com/

Online videos and audio lectures.

The Center for Medical Education

https://courses.ccme.org/course/ema/about

Live course listing and online and home study resources.

CMEList.com

http://www.cmelist.com/emergency-medicine-cme.htm

Extensive list of EM courses.

Harvard Medical School

http://cmecatalog.hms.harvard.edu/topics/emergency-medicine

Live course and online course listings.

Wilderness-Medicine.com

http://www.wilderness-medicine.com/

Wilderness and travel medicine education in international wilderness settings.

BoardVitals.com

https://www.boardvitals.com/emergency-medicine-cme

Emergency Medicine online self-assessment program.

Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development

https://ce.mayo.edu/emergency-medicine/group/emergency-medicine

Live course schedule.

Challenger CME

https://challengercme.com/Products/PersonalMedicalEducation/EmergencyMedicine.aspx

Online Board Review, LLSA and specialized CME

ECG Wave Maven

https://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/maven/mavenmain.asp

Self-assessment program for students and clinicians.

Databases and Search Engines

WikEM

https://www.wikem.org/wiki/Main_Page

Emergency Medicine Wiki

Wikemerg

http://wikemerg.ca/

A curated repository of EM resources.

OzEDMedicine

http://www.ozemedicine.com/wiki/

An Austrailian EM wiki

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Citations for biomedical literature, journals and online books, some with links to full-text content.

DynaMed (subscription)

http://www.dynamed.com/

Evidence-based clinical reference.

STAT!Ref

http://www.statref.com/

Resources Collection for Emergency/Critical Care offered as a set or al a carte.

UpToDate (subscription)

http://www.uptodate.com/

Eidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource.

EMBASE (subscription)

http://store.elsevier.com/embase

Resource for discovering biomedical evidence within published, peer-reviewed literature, in-press publications and conference abstracts.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/

Search for articles, theses, books, abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Toxnet

https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

Resource for searching databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

National Library of Medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Collection of free online medical databases.

Trip

https://www.tripdatabase.com/

Free clinical search engine

Clinical Images

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/stuff-we-use/clinical-images-online/

A comprehensive list, with links, of image-based web resources for EM doctors, complements of lifeinthefastlane.com.

Access Emergency Medicine (subscription)

http://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/index.aspx

A searchable collection of 20+ leading emergency medicine textbooks, emergency medicine videos, image library, self-assessment questions and drug database.

Clinical Key (subscription)

https://www.clinicalkey.com

A clinical search engine.

Trauma.org

http://www.trauma.org/

Search for clinical and educational content and images.

University of San Diego: Catalog of Clinical Images

https://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalimg/index.htm

A web-based collection of physical examination findings.

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Database

http://www.pemdatabase.org/

Pediatric Education

https://pediatriceducation.org/

A Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory

Evidence Based Medicine

Cochrane

http://www.cochrane.org/

Systemic reviews of primary research in healthcare.

BestBETS

http://bestbets.org/

Best Evidence Topics (BETS) are designed specifically for Emergency Medicine.

Evidence Based Emergency Medicine

http://ebem.org/index.php

Formulate a question and follow the prompts.

LinkedIn Groups

Emergency Department Best Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2146024

Nursing—Forums

Allnurses.com Emergency Nursing Forum

http://allnurses.com/emergency-nursing/

Physician Assistant Forum—Emergency Medicine

http://www.physicianassistantforum.com/index.php?/forum/444-emergency-medicine/

Nursing Associations

American Association of Critical Care Nurses

http://www.aacn.org/

Emergency Nurses Association

https://www.ena.org

Society of Trauma Nurses

http://www.traumanurses.org/

Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA)

www.sempa.org

Podcasts

Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine:

http://ccpem.com/

PEM ED podcast

http://www.pemed.org/

For the general emergency room physician

EMPEM

http://empem.org/

Podcasts on adult and pediatric emergency medicine.

http://www.emrap.org/ (subscription)

Overviews of topics frequently encountered in emergency medicine. s.

Emergency Medicine Podcasts, Reviews, and Curbside Consults

http://blog.ercast.org/

Free Emergency Medicine Talks

http://www.freeemergencytalks.net/

More than 2500 MP3s of lectures recorded at many national and international meetings

Audio from the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

http://www.aaem.org/publications/podcasts

Hosts three podcasts: Legal and Policy Issues, Critical Care in Emergency Medicine and Operations Management.

EM Basic

http://embasic.org/

For medical students and interns

The EM Res Podcast

http://emrespodcast.libsyn.com

A resource for ER residents and educators

Emergency Medicine Cases

http://emergencymedicinecases.com/category/podcast/episodes/

Podcasts and Blog

Ultrasound Podcast

http://www.ultrasoundpodcast.com/

Videos and Video Channels

University of Wisconsin: Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Video Library

http://videos.med.wisc.edu/categories/31

HQMedEd

http://hqmeded.com/

EM in 5

https://emin5.com/

EM Cape Town

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDP5VfSnQ3AB1xgPbMUTniw

EMRAP HD

https://www.youtube.com/user/EMRAPMEDICAL

Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/user/VanderbiltEM

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/user/collemergencymed

Essentials of Emergency Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH6o9VC8aF103h4IOo5F3BA

CCME – Free Emergency Medicine Education

https://www.youtube.com/user/rebukata

The Ressuscitationist

https://www.youtube.com/user/Meducator01

Larry Mellick

https://www.youtube.com/user/lmellick