26th Annual Scientific Assembly

Sessions by Topic

MOC Related Sessions

 

Cardiovascular

Infectious Disease

Medicolegal

Neurology

Pain Management/Opioids

Pediatrics

Risk Management/Patient Safety

Trauma

 

See other topics covered at AAEM20

 

Sessions marked with "⏯" are being recorded and will be available on AAEM Online the summer after AAEM20.

Cardiovascular

Wednesday, April 22

(326) Basic Echo | Melissa Myers, MD FAAEM

(327) Caring for the Heart Transplant Patient in the ED | Samantha Wood, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Ventricular Storm: What to Do When Electricity Isn’t Enough | Christopher San Miguel, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Managing Exercise Associated Heat Illness | Korin B. Hudson, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Pressure Pushing Down on Me: The Sonographic Assessment of Pericardial Effusions | Mark Magee, MD FAAEM â¯

(331) Transvenous Pacer | Siamak Moayedi, MD FAAEM

Thursday, April 23

(405) Be Still My Beating Heart: Recognizing and Using Cardiac Standstill | Melissa Myers, MD FAAEM â¯

(405) PE in Pregnancy: Navigating the Minefield | Joelle Borhart, MD FAAEM FACEP â¯

(405) Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: An Overview of an Underrecognized Disease | Patricia De Melo Panakos, MD FAAEM â¯

(Plenary) Emergency Cardiology 2020: The Articles You've Got to Know! | Amal Mattu, MD FAAEM â¯

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Infectious Disease

Monday, April 20

(Plenary) Are Bugs Going to Win the War? - Update on Infectious Disease | Peter M.C. DeBlieux, MD FAAEM â¯

(115) The Febrile Infant | Ilene Claudius, MD FAAEM FAAP FACEP â¯

Tuesday, April 21

(290) DIY: Peritonsillar Abscess Management | Laura J. Bontempo, MD MEd FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Fever, Shock & Serositis | Manu Ayyan, MD FACEE â¯

(327) The Five Most Common and Serious Mistakes Made in Care of the Septic Patient | Jack C. Perkins Jr., MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Finer Points in Febrile Neutropenia | Sarah B. Dubbs, MD FAAEM â¯

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Medicolegal

Monday, April 20

(115) Collision Course: Medicine and the Law | Diana Nordlund, DO JD FAAEM FACEP â¯

(117) Telemedicine Legal Pitfalls | Ethan Andrew Booker, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(334) Medicolegal Pitfalls | Matthew C. DeLaney, MD FAAEM

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Neurology

Monday, April 20

(118) Large Vessel Occlusion: What You Need to Know | Michael E. Silverman, MD FAAEM FACP â¯

Tuesday, April 21

(265) Meet the PRES: Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in Your ED | Bradley E. Barth, MD FAAEM â¯

(265) Does Anyone Deserve Platelets with Intracerebral Hemorrhage? | Karen Greenberg, DO FAAEM FACOEP â¯

(265) Slow Down to Speed Up | Evie G. Marcolini, MD FAAEM FACEP FCCM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(333) More Than Just Drunk-Wernick's Encephalopathy in the ED | Jason Hine, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) Are You Performing GCS Correctly? | Wan-Tsu W. Chang, MD FAAEM â¯

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Pain Management/Opioids

Monday, April 20

(116) Building a Successful ED Buprenorphine Program: Step by Step – the Hard Lessons Learned | Eric M. Ketcham, MD FAAEM FASAM â¯ 

Tuesday, April 21

(270) Small Group Clinic: Upper Extremity US Guided Nerve Block | Michael Gottlieb, MD FAAEM RDMS

(295) Small Group Clinic: Lower Extremity US Guided Nerve Blocks | Michael Gottlieb, MD FAAEM RDMS 

Wednesday, April 22

(315) Opioid Stewardship 2.0: From Quantity to Quality and Beyond | Sergey M. Motov, MD FAAEM â¯

(318) Headache Regional Anesthesia | Michael Shalaby, MD â¯       

(325) Top Myths and Truths About ED Suboxone | Matthew D. Zuckerman, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) Trigger Point Injections | Zachary Repanshek, MD FAAEM â¯

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Pediatrics

Monday, April 20

(115) The Febrile Infant | Ilene Claudius, MD FAAEM FAAP FACEP â¯

Tuesday, April 21

(Plenary) Vision 20/20: Updates in Pediatric EM | Mimi Lu, MD FAAEM â¯

(210) Pediatric Gynecology | Ilene Claudius, MD FAAEM FAAP FACEP

(210) Literature Review Panel: Pediatrics/Public Health | Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD MPH FAAEM; and Mimi Lu, MD FAAEM

Wednesday, April 22

(333) The Precipitous Delivery: Essential Tasks for Newborn Resuscitation | Daphne M. Morrison Ponce, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) Help, My Child is Bleeding!: Tips and Tricks for Managing the Pediatric Upper GI Bleed | Kathleen M. Stephanos, MD FAAEM â¯

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Risk Management/Patient Safety

Tuesday, April 21

(265) Documenting the Space Between the Exam and Diagnosis Line: Rapid Fire Pearls You've Got to Know | Jason Adler, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(333) Resisting the EASY Button: Why It's Probably Not a UTI in Your Geriatric Patient | Danya Khoujah, MBBS FAAEM â¯

(334) Medicolegal Pitfalls | Matthew C. DeLaney, MD FAAEM

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Trauma

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Junctional Hemorrhage | Elizabeth M. Mannion, MD FAAEM â¯

(333) Managing the Hanging Victim | Manish Garg, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Trauma-Informed Care for Violently Injured Patients | Kyle R. Fischer, MD MPH FAAEM â¯

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Other Topics Covered

Abdominal/GI

Critical Care

Diversity/Inclusion

EM Careers

EMS

Endo/Metabolic/Nutrition

Geriatrics

HEENT

Hemetologoic

Imaging

Immune System Disorders

Musculoskeletal

OB/Gyn

Pharmacology

Practice of EM

Public Health

Renal-Urogenical

Rural/Community

Technology

Thoracic-Respiratory

Toxicology

Wellness

 

 

See MOC topics covered at AAEM20

Sessions marked with "⏯" are being recorded and will be available on AAEM Online the summer after AAEM20.

Abdominal/GI

Tuesday, April 21

(265) Cyclic Vomiting: A Medication Bottomless Pit? | Rahul Bhat, MD FAAEM â¯

(290) The 18-Hour Case of Appendicitis | David J. Carlberg, MD FAAEM â¯         

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Ditch the Flat Plate: How to Use Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction | Allison Zanaboni, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) Help, My Child is Bleeding!: Tips and Tricks for Managing the Pediatric Upper GI Bleed | Kathleen M. Stephanos, MD FAAEM â¯

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Critical Care

Monday, April 20

(Plenary) Recent Practice Changing Articles in Prehospital Resuscitation | Corey M. Slovis, MD FAAEM FACP FACEP â¯

(115) Alternatives to Rapid Sequence Intubation - Airway Strategy for Emergency Clinicians | Reuben J. Strayer, MD FAAEM FRCP FACEP â¯

(115) Current Concepts & Controversies in Sepsis Resuscitation | Michael E. Winters, MD MBA FAAEM â¯

(116) Management of Severe Hypoxemia | Susan R. Wilcox, MD FAAEM â¯

(116) Heavyweight Champion - Resuscitating the Morbidly Obese Patient | Brian Parker, MD MS â¯

(118) Resuscitation: When Less is More | Jennifer Repanshek, MD FAAEM â¯

Tuesday, April 21

(220) Literature Review Panel: Critical Care | Haney Mallemat, MD FAAEM; and Corey M. Slovis, MD FAAEM FACP FACEP â¯

(220) The Controversial Use of Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest | Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD FAAEM â¯

(265) Meet the PRES: Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in your ED | Bradley E. Barth, MD FAAEM â¯

(Plenary) Critical Care in Review | Haney Mallemat, MD FAAEM â¯

(295) Small Group Clinic: LVAD | Andrew W. Phillips, MD MEd FAAEM

Wednesday, April 22

(315) Crashing Anaphylaxis | Zachary Repanshek, MD FAAEM â¯

(318) Modern Trochar Use in Tube Thoracostomy | Matthew DeStefano, DO â¯

(318) High Risk Intubation Scenarios | Susan R. Wilcox, MD FAAEM â¯

(326) Small Group Clinic: Cricothyrotomy & Needle Cric | Ryan Spangler, MD FAAEM

(327) The Five Most Common and Serious Mistakes Made in Care of the Septic Patient | Jack C. Perkins Jr., MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Tripoding Isn't Just for Cameras: Severe Asthma Management | Ashika Jain, MD FAAEM FACEP â¯

(328) Ventricular Storm: What to Do When Electricity Isn’t Enough | Christopher San Miguel, MD FAAEM â¯

(330) ECMO: Pro/Con Debate | David A. Farcy, MD FAAEM FCCM and Stephen R. Hayden, MD FAAEM â¯

(332) Don't Go Yet! Stabilizing That Critically Ill Patient Before They Leave | Skyler A. Lentz, MD FAAEM â¯

(333) The Precipitous Delivery: Essential Tasks for Newborn Resuscitation | Daphne M. Morrison Ponce, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Toxic Alcohols: Who Needs Dialysis? | Michael D. Levine, MD FAAEM â¯

(405) Trauma-Informed Care for Violently Injured Patients | Kyle R. Fischer, MD MPH FAAEM â¯

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Diversity/Inclusion

Tuesday, April 21

(317) Enhancing Diversity in Healthcare Leadership | Manish Garg, MD FAAEM â¯

(325) Beyond He Said/She Said | Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD FAAEM â¯

(327) The Impact of Racism on the Health of a Nation | L.E. Gomez Sr., MD MBA FAAEM and Lisa A. Moreno, MD MS MSCR FAAEM FIFEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(333) Increasing Diversity in the Field of EM: From Pipeline to Faculty Retention | Vonzella A. Bryant, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) Women and Minorities: Making Our Voices Heard | Lisa A. Moreno, MD MS MSCR FAAEM FIFEM â¯

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EM Careers

Monday, April 20

(117) Secret Habits of Highly Satisfied Physicians and Creating a Culture of Physician Well-Being | Robert P. Lam, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(317) Don't Become Obsolete: The Fight Against Skill Decay | Jason Hine, MD FAAEM â¯

(317) Enhancing Diversity in Healthcare Leadership | Manish Garg, MD FAAEM â¯

(319) Strategies to Improve Team Cohesiveness | David J. Carlberg, MD, FAAEM

(319) Nuts & Bolts: Make a Great Impression! CV Essentials | Michael L. Epter, DO FAAEM

(319) Arriving At Your New Job | Jonathan S. Jones, MD FAAEM

(319) Job Interviewing Like A Pro | Mark Reiter, MD MBA MAAEM FAAEM

(329) The 1440 Doctor: Tools for the Busy Doctor to Make the Most of Their Minutes | Jennifer Kanapicki Comer, MD FAAEM

(329) Secrets of Successful Side Gigs and Job Crafting Towards Your Ideal Practice | Robert P. Lam, MD FAAEM

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EMS

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Eventful Medicine: Just Another Day at the Office | Celine Thum, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Managing Exercise Associated Heat Illness | Korin B. Hudson, MD FAAEM â¯

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Endocrine/Metabolic/Nutrition

Tuesday, April 21

(220) How to Respond When Your Nephrologist Requests Sorbitol and Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) for Hyperkalemia | Corey M. Slovis, MD FAAEM FACP FACEP â¯

(290) Balanced Solutions in the Management of Hypovolemic Hyperkalemia | George C. Willis, MD FAAEM â¯

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Geriatrics

Wednesday, April 22

(315) Pearls and Pitfalls of Geriatric Pharmacology and Medication Safety | Danya Khoujah, MBBS FAAEM â¯

(333) Resisting the EASY Button: Why It's Probably Not a UTI in Your Geriatric Patient | Danya Khoujah, MBBS FAAEM â¯

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HEENT

Tuesday, April 21

(290) DIY: Peritonsillar Abscess Management | Laura J. Bontempo, MD MEd FAAEM â¯   

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Headache Regional Anesthesia | Michael Shalaby, MD â¯       

(331) Small Group Clinic: Vertigo Maneuvers | Siamak Moayedi, MD FAAEM

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Hemetologic

Monday, April 20

(116) Management of Severe Hypoxemia | Susan R. Wilcox, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(317) Blood, Sweat, and Tears: How to Manage a Bleeding Anti-Coagulated Patient | Matthew P. Borloz, MD FAAEM â¯          

(318) The Cost of Survival: Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Treatment | Loice A. Swisher, MD FAAEM â¯

(330) Sickle Cell Patient Panel | Jack C. Perkins Jr., MD FAAEM â¯

(330) Sickle Cell: Manage It Like a Pro | R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD FAAEM â¯

(333) Checkpoint Inhibitors | Paul S. Jansson, MD â¯ 

(333) IV Iron in the ED - Rethinking How You Treat Anemia | Gregory Patek, MD OD FAAEM â¯

(333) New Cancer Treatments and Its Associated Complications | Demis N. Lipe, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Finer Points in Febrile Neutropenia | Sarah B. Dubbs, MD FAAEM â¯

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Imaging

Tuesday, April 21

(220) The Controversial Use of Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest | Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD FAAEM â¯

(270) Small Group Clinic: Upper Extremity US Guided Nerve Block | Michael Gottlieb, MD FAAEM RDMS

(295) Small Group Clinic: Lower Extremity US Guided Nerve Blocks | Michael Gottlieb, MD FAAEM RDMS

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Ditch the Flat Plate: How to Use Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction | Allison Zanaboni, MD FAAEM â¯

(318) How Did I Miss That? Tips on Using Ultrasound to Never Miss a Central Line Again | Eric J. Chin, MD MBA FAAEM â¯

(325) Best Practice: Who Needs an Emergent MRI of the Spine? | Tracy Leigh LeGros, MD PhD FAAEM FUHM â¯

(326) Small Group Clinic: Basic Echo | Melissa Myers, MD FAAEM

(328) Can You See What I See: Understanding Lung Pathology on Ultrasound | Alexis Salerno, MD â¯

(328) Hand-Held Ultrasound Machines: Panacea or Problematic? | Joshua Guttman, MD FAAEM FRCPC â¯

(328) Pressure Pushing Down on Me: The Sonographic Assessment of Pericardial Effusions | Mark Magee, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Be Still My Beating Heart: Recognizing and Using Cardiac Standstill | Melissa Myers, MD FAAEM â¯

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Immune System Disorders

Wednesday, April 22

(315) Crashing Anaphylaxis | Zachary Repanshek, MD FAAEM â¯ 

(330) Sickle Cell: Manage it like a Pro | R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD FAAEM â¯

(330) Sickle Cell Patient Panel | Jack C. Perkins Jr., MD FAAEM â¯

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Musculoskeletal

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Feel the Burn: An Evidence Based Approach to Rhabdomyolysis | Matthew C. DeLaney, MD FAAEM â¯

(332) High Risk Injuries That Can't Be Missed | Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM FACEP â¯

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OB/GYN

Tuesday, April 21

(210) Pediatric Gynecology | Ilene Claudius, MD FAAEM FAAP FACEP

(270) Small Group Clinic: Complicated Vaginal Delivery | Eric M. Steinberg, DO FAAEM

(290) Help! There's a Baby Coming! | Julie Vieth, MBChB FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(316) Small Group Clinic: Complicated Vaginal Delivery | Eric M. Steinberg, DO FAAEM

(332) Controversies in Pyelonephritis: Imaging, Pregnancy and Disposition | Elizabeth Pontius, MD FAAEM RDMS â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) PE in Pregnancy: Navigating the Minefield | Joelle Borhart, MD FAAEM FACEP â¯

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Pharmacology

Tuesday, April 21

(220) How to Respond When Your Nephrologist Requests Sorbitol and Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) for Hyperkalemia | Corey M. Slovis, MD FAAEM FACP FACEP â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(315) Pearls and Pitfalls of Geriatric Pharmacology and Medication Safety | Danya Khoujah, MBBS FAAEM â¯

(318) Don't Get Angry, Get MAD! Intranasal Medications in Adult | Jeffery A. Baker, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Understanding the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and Why It Matters to EM Physicians | Andrew Rizzo, DO FAAEM â¯

(333) Checkpoint Inhibitors | Paul S. Jansson, MD â¯

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Practice of EM

Monday, April 20

(116) The Influx of Advanced Practice Providers: What is the Role of the Emergency Physician? | Julie Vieth, MBChB FAAEM â¯

(117) How Does the Community Doc Interpret Medical Literature? | Salim R. Rezaie, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(317) The Existential Threat to EM Right Now: If We Don't Take Control, Someone Else Will | Jason Adler, MD FAAEM â¯

(325) Emergency Medicine at the Precipice | Richard M. Pescatore II, DO FAAEM â¯

(328) Finding Quality Free Online Access Medical Educational Resources | Andrew Grock, MD FAAEM â¯

(328) Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Improving and Automating Emergency Medicine Resident Training | Kyle S. Couperus, MD â¯

(329) Caring for Friends and Family | Joseph S. Bushra, MD FAAEM

(329) Patient Satisfaction in EM | Gus M. Garmel, MD FAAEM FACEP

(332) How to Get Involved in Advocacy | Amish Mahendra Shah, MD MPH FAAEM â¯

(333) More Than Just Drunk- Wernick's Encephalopathy in the ED | Jason Hine, MD FAAEM â¯

(333) What Happened? FIX HIM!: Delivering Bad News in the ED | Bob Zemple IV, MD FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(415) The Joint Commission as Complicit in the Opioid Crisis | Talcott J. Franklin, MA, JD â¯

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Public Health

Tuesday, April 21

(210) Literature Review: Pediatrics/Public Health | Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD MPH FAAEM; and Mimi Lu, MD FAAEM

(210) Social Emergency Medicine: "Not My Job" Doesn't Cut It in 2020 | Megan Healy, MD FAAEM

(Plenary) Our Lane: The Critical Role of Emergency Physicians in Advancing Public Health | Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD MPH FAAEM

Wednesday, April 22

(Keynote) The "Upstream" Transformation of Healthcare: Leveraging Emergency Medicine | Thea L. James, MD â¯

(327) The Impact of Racism on the Health of a Nation | L.E. Gomez Sr., MD MBA FAAEM and Lisa A. Moreno, MD MS MSCR FAAEM FIFEM â¯

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Renal-Urogenital

Wednesday, April 22

(316) Priapism Management | Ryan Spangler, MD FAAEM          

(328) Controversies of Urologic Emergencies | Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD and Michael E. Takacs, MD MS FAAEM â¯

(332) Controversies in Pyelonephritis: Imaging, Pregnancy and Disposition | Elizabeth Pontius, MD FAAEM RDMS â¯        

(333) Stop a Bleed, Save a Life: Bleeding Dialysis Arteriovenous Fistulas | Ryan Spangler, MD FAAEM â¯      

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Rural/Community

Monday, April 20

(117) How Does the Community Doc Interpret Medical Literature? | Salim R. Rezaie, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(317) Don't Become Obsolete: The Fight Against Skill Decay | Jason Hine, MD FAAEM â¯     

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Technology

Monday, April 20

(117) Telemedicine Legal Pitfalls | Ethan Andrew Booker, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(328) Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Improving and Automating Emergency Medicine Resident Training | Kyle S. Couperus, MD â¯

(330) ECMO: Pro/Con Debate | David A. Farcy, MD FAAEM FCCM and Stephen R. Hayden, MD FAAEM â¯

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Thoracic-Respiratory

Monday, April 20

(118) Hemoptysis: Pearls and Pitfalls | Megan Healy, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(318) Modern Trochar Use in Tube Thoracostomy | Matthew DeStefano, DO â¯

(327) A Common Sense Approach to Venous Thromboembolism | Rahul Bhat, MD FAAEM â¯      

(328) Can You See What I See: Understanding Lung Pathology on Ultrasound | Alexis Salerno, MD â¯

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Toxicology

Monday, April 20

(117) Kids These Days and New Street Drugs: Raising From the Dead | Richard D. Shih, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(328) Toxicology: Extracorporeal Removal Techniques for the Poisoned Patient | Halil Dogan, PhD MD â¯

(328) Understanding the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and Why It Matters to EM Physicians | Andrew Rizzo, DO FAAEM â¯

Thursday, April 23

(405) Toxic Alcohols: Who Needs Dialysis? | Michael D. Levine, MD FAAEM â¯

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Wellness

Monday, April 20

(117) Secret Habits of Highly Satisfied Physicians and Creating a Culture of Physician Well-Being | Robert P. Lam, MD FAAEM â¯

(118) Physician Depression and Suicide: How EM Docs Are the Perfect Storm for Disaster | Carol Pak-Teng, MD FAAEM â¯

Wednesday, April 22

(333) Developing Internal Validation in Residency | Randy Sorge, MD â¯

Thursday, April 23

(Plenary) The ABC Algorithm: Why C Should ALWAYS Come First - At the Bedside and in Life | Michael L. Epter, DO FAAEM â¯

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