Welcome to the iEM Education Project Monthly Newsletter. We will share the achievements, information about top posts, chapters, activities and future plans of the project that you kindly contributed, supported or showed your interest.
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Project Contributors
We reached 141 contributors from 19 different countries in February. Our recent contributor is Vicky Noble from USA. Dr. Noble is the vice-chair for academic affairs and the residency program director at University Hospitals in Cleveland Ohio where she is starting the hospital-wide point of care ultrasound program for the system. She is a Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. She is a former chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section, has been on the boards of the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS), Point of care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments (PURE) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM).
She is the president-elect for the Society for Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME). She is the co-author of the Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound textbook, now in its second edition. Her research interests include lung ultrasound, ultrasound volume assessment and technology solutions to guide ultrasound interpretation as a means to broaden access to diagnostic ultrasound. With over a decade of experience in teaching ultrasound and starting ultrasound programs now at two facilities she can give advice on research, starting a program and ultrasound program administration as well as international training efforts. She is a true evangelist for the technology.
ICON360 interview series continues with Dr. Noble. Stay tuned!
Posts Published In February
Approach to Suicidal Patient (2025)
by Faisal A. Nawaz Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 19-year-old male was brought to the emergency room (ER) by his family with
Approach To Acutely Agitated Patient (2025)
by Mazin A Mukhtar Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 35-year-old male was brought to the emergency department by police due to violent
Pediatric Seizures (2025)
by Neema Francis, Faiz Ahmad, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 5-year-old female was brought into the ED as her parents
Tetanus (2025)
by Grace Bunemann, Alex Gallaer, Jerry Oommen & Ashley Pickering Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! An 11-year-old female was brought in by ambulance
Red and Painful Eye (2025)
by Gina Rami Abdelmesih, Amna AlMaazmi & Ahmed AlSaadi Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 74-year-old woman, with a background history of hypertension,
Approach To Undifferentiated Patients (2025)
by Ibrahim Sarbay Authors Listen Introduction Emergency medicine differs significantly from other healthcare settings where patients are treated. Anyone can present to the Emergency Department
Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access (2025)
by Zackary Funk & Petra Duran-Gehring Authors Listen Introduction Ultrasound (US) guidance has become an increasingly common technique for vascular access in the Emergency Department
Arterial Blood Gas Sampling (2025)
by Gan Kiat Kee & Arif Alper Cevik Authors Listen Introduction Arterial blood gas (ABG) sampling is a critical procedure performed in the emergency department
Chest Pain (2024)
by Khaled Alaboud Alkheder & Muneer Al Marzooqi Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 67-year-old woman presents to the ED with acute chest
Aortic Dissection (2024)
by Sreenidhi Vanyaa Manian, & Elizabeth DeVos Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 63-year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden, severe
Hypernatremia (2024)
by Theresa Nguyen Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! An 87-year-old male patient with a past medical history of hypertension, stroke, and depression presents
The Limping Child (2024)
by Elizabeth Zorovich, Vincent Gonzalez, & Vlad Panaitescu Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A four-year-old boy presents to the emergency department with
Hypoglycemia (2024)
by Rok Petrovčič Authors Listen You Have A New Patient! A 75-year-old woman was brought to the emergency department by her relatives for “not
Top Reads In February
Free iBook
A free book (ibook and pdf) for EMERGENCY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP Students (iEmergency Medicine for Medical Students and Interns – 2018, Version 1) will be shared through iem-student.org in March. STAY TUNED! or better REGISTER on the sidebar to get email alert or follow us on social media.
February Website Usage
Overall Website Usage
Thanks to Maryam AlBadwawi for ‘Shock’ lecture.