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Winter 2021: FCEP President’s Message
As I sit down to write this message, the first thing I am faced with is a blank page. Sometimes, the blank page is intimidating. Not now. Not today. At this point in time, I am eager to embrace a fresh start with a new outlook, born out of lessons learned and insight...
Winter 2021: Executive Director’s Message
Having recently joined FCEP, this is my first submission to EMpulse. I hope it does justice to the thoughtful and inspiring sentiments from our FCEP President and ACEP President-elect, which appear before and after my message, respectively. They speak of a new chapter...
Winter 2021: ACEP President-Elect
Fear. Anxiety. Uncertainty. These are emotions that almost everyone felt early in the pandemic. These are sentiments we are very familiar with as emergency physicians. We don’t always know what comes next or what to do in every single situation, but we draw upon our...
Winter 2021: EMS/Trauma
The EMS/Trauma committee meeting in November focused on COVID vaccinations and NAEMSPs joint position statement on ketamine use, including the phenomenon known as excited delirium. An overview of excited delirium, written by one of our FAEMSMD medical directors who...
Winter 2021: Pediatric Committee
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the population in all aspects of life, including healthcare utilization. Despite the morbidity associated with the ongoing pandemic, many reports have described a reduction in emergency department (ED) utilization. This reduction is...
Winter 2021: Medical Economics
State-level issuesFCEP continues to advocate for a solution to regulatory loopholes related to the 2016 balance billing legislation. After successful action by emergency physician groups to collect payment via the state independent dispute resolution process...
Winter 2021: MPD
Happy New Year, FCEP family! How are you doing? No, really—how are you doing? This issue is being distributed in January 2021, approximately 10 months into the Covid-19 pandemic. We have developed strategies to care for our communities, and recent vaccine releases...
Winter 2021: Gov Affairs
We saw a lot of new things in 2020, including an election that was performed in a different way. We should all thank our local election officials for pulling this massive undertaking off so successfully. In Florida, not much has changed in Tallahassee as we head into...
CPC 2020: Quick Fire Winners
Wednesday, August 26 Winners Best Presenter: Joshua Goldstein, MD, PGY-1 (University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital) Best Discussant: Andrea Alvarado, MD, PGY-2 (University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital) Best Overall: University of Miami – Jackson...
Fall 2020: Daunting Diagnosis
Question: A 42-year-old unvaccinated male presents to the ED as a referral from the dental clinic. He was treated for a “right dental abscess” without resolution. The patient presents with right facial swelling and erythema. Labs and a facial CT are obtained. What is...
