Department Blog - August 2024

Clinical Assistant Professor Doug Sward, MD, coauthored “Tick-borne illnesses in emergency and wilderness medicine,” published in the Environmental and Wilderness Medicine issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. 2024 Aug:42(3):597-611. The article discusses Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, Powassan virus, and alpha-gal syndrome, as well as bite prevention and tick removal.

Assistant Professor Cheyenne Falat, MD, is co-editor of the August 2024 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on Environmental and Wilderness Medicine and coauthor of the preface, “Entering the Extreme.” She also wrote “Environmental hypothermia,” published in the same issue. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2024 Aug:42(3):493-511. Professor Amal Mattu, MD, wrote the issue's Foreword.

Professor Mak Moayedi, MD, Associate Professor Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, and Clinical Professor Mike Witting, MD, presented on “Pseudoephedrine prophylaxis does not prevent middle ear barotrauma in hyperbaric oxygen therapy” at the annual scientific meeting of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society in New Orleans on June 14.

“Why are more Americans drowning?” is the title of an article published by health news site MDLinx that features clinical instructor Sarah Lee, MD, discussing emergency department resuscitations, evaluations, and monitoring of patients who are injured when they are submerged in water and can’t breathe. “Drowning incidents can happen quickly and quietly,” Dr. Lee noted. She recommends actions to prevent drowning that include learning to swim -- at any age -- wearing a life jacket, and using the buddy system so someone can alert others about a distressed or injured swimmer.