Presentation for the 2014 Airway Course @NYP This year I’m giving the lecture on emergency cricothyrotomy at our annual airway course. This is a relatively simple procedure, but it’s mastery presents […]

Tales of the Cunningham technique and one EP’s eventual journey to success through reverse engineering The successful practice of medicine hinges on two things. A detailed grasp of medical knowledge, […]

I saw a patient on the Big Island of Hawaii with serious intracranial bleeding on Pradaxa. Now it’s rural here, which means a dearth of specialty care. And so three months ago […]

Medical technology has come a long way in the last century. It’s also become more personally useful. I love my iPhone and the peripheral brain it allows me to carry […]

Some of you may have noticed an upgrade to The EMBER Project’s Facebook page. The rapidly changing internet landscape opens up incredible opportunities for emergency physicians to learn and share […]

If you look to the right on this blog you will notice that I recently retweeted a great pearl from the Critical Care guys (@critcareguys) about hanging the Zosyn before […]

More emergency medicine literature in verse, inspired by a new Remington-style typewriter app on my iPhone.  The clinical pearl, along with the reference literature can be found by clicking on the […]

I have often tried to explain to friends and family what it is I do, since I find it hard to describe all of the aspects of my job in […]

It’s about that time of year when senior residents are accepting their first jobs and getting ready to kick ass.  I remember being shocked when I started residency by how […]