In this study, the authors first sought to empirically derive centiles for heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), and systolic blood pressure (SBP) for adults with out-of-hospital emergencies who were transported to an ED. Second, they aimed to evaluate the impact of adjusting for age in the evaluation of centile curves for vital signs to identify practical targets for adjustment of vital signs classification in adult patients based on age categories. Third, they examined the association of both unadjusted and age-adjusted vital signs with hospital admission and in-hospital mortality.

Timely reperfusion is necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Initial care by facilities with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capabilities reduces time to reperfusion. The authors sought to examine whether insurance status was associated with initial care at EDs with PCI capabilities amongst adult patients with STEMI.

Dr. Sally Santen and Dr. Martin Pusic discuss their team's new commentary and perspective piece in AEM Education and Training entitled, "Our responsibility to patients: Maintain competency or ... stop practicing."

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are gaining popularity for a variety of academic writing tasks and offer an innovative solution to relieve the burden of letter writing. The authors conducted a study aimed at determining whether academic physicians can distinguish between AI and human-generated letters of recommendation.

In the podcast the author references a gendered language calculator, which can be found here:

https://slowe.github.io/genderbias/

Conversations about code status in seriously ill patients at end of life is unfortunately a frequent event in the emergency department. Today we are discussing a paper in AEM entitled The differences in code status conversation approaches reported by emergency medicine and palliative care clinicians: a mixed method study. Lead author Dr. Kei Ouchi is here to discuss it with us. 

We discuss this new article, A Qualitative Analysis of Patients’ Experiences with an ED Diagnosis of GI Cancer, with senior author Dr. Haejin In. 

Today we are speaking to senior author Dr. Dmitri Papanagnou about his team’s new paper in AEM Education and Training entitled Making decisions “in the dark”: Learning through uncertainty in clinical practice during Covid-19. 

Patients with (LEP) have been shown to experience disparities in (ED) care. The objectives of this study were to examine the LEP and irregular ED departures and return ED visits. We interview senior author Dr. Derick Jones about this new AEM paper. 

Emergency care workforce concerns have gained national prominence given recent data suggesting higher than previously estimated attrition. With little known regarding characteristics of physicians leaving the workforce, this paper sought to investigate the age and number of years since residency graduation at which male and female EM physicians exhibited workforce attrition.  We speak with primary author Dr. Cameron Gettel. 

General emergency physicians provide most pediatric emergency care in the United States yet report more challenges managing emergencies in children than adults. Recommendations for standardized pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) curricula to address educational gaps due to variations in pediatric exposure during emergency medicine (EM) training lack learner input. This study surveyed senior EM residents and recent graduates about their perceived preparedness to manage pedi- atric emergencies to better inform PEM curricula design.

Dr. Pensa interviews author Dr. Michelle Suh about her teams recent E&T publication, “I’d rather see action”: Application and recruitment experiences of underrepresented in emergency medicine trainees."