Selections from Cardiovascular Disorders and Hematologic Disorders

Content Area 3. Cardiovascular Disorders

• When do patients need admission to a telemetry bed?
• Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients with asymptomatic hypertension in the emergency department.
• Non-invasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. Systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Time to treatment in primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
• Does this patient with a pericardial effusion have cardiac tamponade?
• Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute heart failure syndromes.
  

Content Area 8. Hematologic Disorders

• Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia.
• Oncologic emergencies: diagnosis and treatment.

The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Content Area 4. Cutaneous Disorders

• Abscess incision and drainage. (Test questions will only be written from the article, but ABEM also encourages diplomates to watch the video.)
• Are antibiotics necesssary after incision and drainage of a cutaneous abscess?
  

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

• Computed tomography — An increasing source of radiation exposure.
• Clinical practice advisory: emergency department procedural sedation with propofol.
  

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

• Missed and delayed diagnoses in the emergency department: a study of closed malpractice claims from 4 liability insurers.
• Replacing hindsight with insight: toward better understanding of diagnostic failures.
• Emergency physicians and disclosure of medical errors.
• Refusal of care: the physician-patient relationship and decisionmaking capacity.