Selections from Environmental Disorders and Procedures and Skills Integral to the Practice of Emergency Medicine

Content Area 6. Environmental Disorders

• Hypersensitivity to Hymenoptera stings
• Acute chemical emergencies
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Medical treatment of radiological casualties: current concepts

Content Area 19. Procedures and Skills Integral to the Practice of Emergency Medicine

• Preventing nephropathy induced by contrast medium
• Clinical policy: procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department
• Topical anesthetics for dermal instrumentation: a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials
• Laryngeal view during laryngoscopy: a randomized trial comparing cricoid pressure, backward-upward-rightward pressure, and bimanual laryngoscopy
• Randomized controlled clinical trial of point-of-care, limited ultrasonography for trauma in the emergency department: the first sonography outcomes assessment program trial
• Use of the Broselow tape may result in the underresuscitation of children
• How do I perform a lumbar puncture and analyze the results to diagnose bacterial meningitis
• Arthrocentesis of the knee (Test questions will only be written from the article, but ABEM also encourages diplomates to watch the video.)

The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Content Area 2. Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Disorders

• Oral ondansetron for gastroenteritis in a pediatric emergency department

Content Area 3. Cardiovascular Disorders

• Strategies for reducing the door-to-balloon time in acute myocardial infarction

Content Area 7. Head, Ear, Eye, Nose, and Throat Disorders

• Wait-and-see prescription for the treatment of acute otitis media: a randomized controlled trial

Content Area 10. Systemic Infectious Disorders

• Surviving sepsis — practice guidelines, marketing campaigns, and Eli Lilly
• Severe sepsis and septic shock: review of the literature and emergency department management guidelines

Content Area 12. Nervous System Disorders

• Spinal epidural abscess

Content Area 18. Traumatic Disorders

• Intracranial pathology in elders with blunt head trauma

Content Area 20. Other Components of the Practice of Emergency Medicine

• Institute of Medicine. IOM Report: the future of emergency care in the United States health system