Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: Emergency Medicine: 2008 DISASTER PLANNING Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 16 August 21, 2008 How disaster plans support clinical care in both routine and adverse situations – Stephen Pixley, RN What it takes to be prepared: lessons learned from disasters – Michael E. Richards, MD, MPA Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. CARDIAC UPDATE: PART 2 Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 15 August 7, 2008 New techniques for CPR – Ben J. Bobrow, MD Drugs that can have adverse effects on the heart: Part 2 – Douglas S. Paauw, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. CARDIAC UPDATE: PART 1 Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 14 July 21, 2008 Acute management of atrial fibrillation – Jennifer J. Casaletto, MD Drugs that can have adverse effects on the heart – Douglas S. Paauw, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. ETHICAL ISSUES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 13 July 7, 2008 Definitions and attitudes; Medical ethics of the ages; Generic ethical problems – Peter Rosen, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. TRAUMA UPDATE Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 12 June 21, 2008 Deep venous thrombosis in the trauma patient – Riyad Karmy–Jones, MD Operative, angiographic, and nonoperative treatment of the severely injured kidney – Richard A. Santucci, MD Nonoperative care of solid–organ injuries – Michael D. McGonigal, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. PEDIATRIC UPDATE 2008 Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 11 June 7, 2008 Pediatric endocrine and metabolic emergencies – Ghazala Sharieff, MD Fever without a source – Andrea K. Marmor, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. DIABETES AND REHYDRATION Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 10 May 21, 2008 Management of diabetes complications in the ED – Scott Lundberg, MD Rehydration therapies and antiemetics in pediatric patients in the ED – Daniel J. Scherzer, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. RADIOLOGIC CONTROVERSIES AND NEW MEDICATIONS Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 09 May 7, 2008 Radiologic controversies that will affect your practice – Timothy B. Jang, MD New medications in the ED – Scott A. Braunstein, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. PEDIATRIC TRAUMA Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 08 April 21, 2008 Cervical spine: clear or not too clear – John Loiselle, MD Whacks to the trunk: pediatric solid organ injury – Sarah A. Jones, MD Can they think? Aftermath of brain injury – Jane A. Crowley, PsyD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Pediatric Trauma: Protecting Our Future, Sponsored By Nemours OB/GYN EMERGENCIES Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 07 April 7, 2008 Pelvic pain: Adenexal torsion; Ovarian hemorrhage; Post–abortion pain – Michael Policar, MD, MPH Vaginal bleeding – Michael Policar, MD, MPH Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 06 March 21, 2008 The dizzy patient – S. Andrew Josephson, MD Psychiatric emergencies – Karen Santucci, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. INFECTIOUS OUTBREAKS Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 05 March 7, 2008 Advanced infectious disease topics – David J. Karras, MD Pets in the hospital setting – Terry Yamauchi, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. WOUNDS AND INFECTION Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 04 February 21, 2008 Wound care update – Loren Crown, MD Management of skin and soft–tissue infections in the era of resistance – Fredrick M. Abrahamian, DO Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. FEVER Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 03 February 7, 2008 Work–up of the febrile immunocompromised patient¬ – Kimberly A. Howerton, MD Fever in infants: which algorithm is best? – Deborah A. Levine, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. PEDIATRIC SAFETY Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 02 January 21, 2008 Patient safety in the pediatric emergency department – Joan E. Shook, MD True pediatric emergencies – Scott A. Braunstein, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. THE GERIATRIC PATIENT Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine Volume 25, Issue 01 January 7, 2008 Medical issues in the elderly – Jorge A. Diaz, MD Geriatric trauma – James T. Brown, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program.