Emergency department (ED) volumes are projected to grow 6% over the next decade, adding to the pressures already shaping emergency care delivery across the United States.

There is no imaginable reality where accidents and emergencies cease to exist. By the very nature of both of those terms, unplanned events occur, often requiring specialized, curated, emergent care.

As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in disaster and humanitarian responses in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, in Haiti ...

Newswise — Bethesda, Md. – The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH), a center at the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Md., has taken over direction of the ...

When Barbie Barrett, MD, was in Haiti providing medical care following the 2010 earthquake, she was approached by a barefoot man with one leg who asked for her shoe. "What could I say? I gave it to ...

ApolloMD Expands Support of Emergency Medicine Foundation ApolloMD expands its support of the Emergency Medicine Foundation with a $15,000 research grant focused on emergency physician well-being and ...

HPI: 55-year-old female with a history of opioid abuse, anxiety, depression, AICD placed in 2006 for history of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, diabetes, and hypertension ...

Baystate Health has appointed Dr. Daniel Shaw as chief of emergency medicine at the future Baystate Mercy Hospital, the ...

Newswise — Bethesda, MD – The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH), a component of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), has selected the ...