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Recently, we’ve explored how violence can affect our patients. Now, let’s how explore how we as emergency medicine providers are affected by violence in our own department. In part I of this two part series, ....
Do you have a similar program where you work, or are you interested in learning more about how to start one? Share your experiences and questions with us on social media, @empulsepodcast, or through our ....
In the emergency department, we treat violently injured patients on nearly every shift. We can splint the broken bones, stitch up the cuts, and send seriously injured patients to the operating room with our surgical ....
***Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of child abuse*** This is a follow up episode that dives deeper on why a bruised baby is worrisome, important aspects of a social history, and screening for abuse ....
Trauma Informed Care 101 Trauma informed care has become quite the buzz word in medicine, and especially in emergency medicine. But what does it mean? Why should you care? How can you use it on ....
Our first EM Pulse podcast called “Pot Tarts” was on marijuana legalization in California and ingestion in kids. In this episode we circle back to THC in kids with Dr. James Chenoweth on a an ....
***Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of child abuse*** As emergency physicians, we are uniquely positioned to identify and address child abuse, or non-accidental trauma (NAT). It’s a challenging part of our job, but our ....
Happy spring, everyone! This Heartbeat is all about joy and community, so come along with me to Macedonia Baptist Church in Sacramento, California, where community leaders, Pastor Jeffrey Johnson and Derrell Roberts, teamed up with ....
Last month, Dr. Josh Elder spoke with us about how UC Davis Express Care allows patients to see a doctor via virtual urgent care visits. In this episode, we explore a different side of telemedicine: ....
“He came in by ambulance short of breath...” This is how Dr. Taylor Nichols’ tweet thread began. It’s a line many of us could have written - typical of an encounter in the COVID era. ....