Greetings from Southeast Florida, where we are enjoying the best weather of the year. There have been lots of exciting happenings down here at FAU over the winter months. Despite working hard and ramping up studying for the In-Training Exam, we have continued to enjoy our monthly wellness days after our simulation lab training. Our recent events included attending an FAU football game and a beach day that did not disappoint.

Our annual holiday party was a huge success and included a white elephant gift exchange as well as a cookie making competition. Big thank you to our faculty and everyone who made our party happen this year.

We thoroughly enjoyed our recent simulation lab skills session with the FAU Emergency Medicine Interest Group. We hosted 15 first- and second-year medical students who are interested in emergency medicine, all of whom participated in learning multiple skills like central lines, chest tubes, and airway management encompassing direct intubations and difficult airway management with glidescope and fiberoptic scope intubations. We are anxiously awaiting the next skills session.

Big congratulations to the recently married Dr. Danny Gersowsky, and to Dr. Andrew Arteaga on his recent engagement. We’ve also had several new publications over the past few months, including:

Hughes PG, Alter SM, Greaves SW, Mazer BA, Solano JJ, Shih RD, Clayton LM, Trinh NQ, Lottenberg L, Hughes MJ. Acute and Delayed Intracranial Hemorrhage in Head-injured Patients on Warfarin versus Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock. 2021;14(3):123-7. PMID: 34759629

Solano JJ, Clayton LM, Parks DJ, Polley SE, Hughes PG, Hennekens CH, Shih RD, Alter SM. Prehospital Ketamine Administration for Excited Delirium with Illicit Substance Co-Ingestion and Subsequent Intubation in the Emergency Department. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2021;36(6):697-701. PMID: 34551849.

Khan M, Alter SM, Clayton LM, Hughes PG, Shih RD, Solano JJ. Age adjusted D-dimer cutoffs for pulmonary embolism in a geriatric population utilizing a D-dimer unit assay. [published online ahead of print, 2021 Oct 22]. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021;51:103-107. PMID: 34735966. ■