Department Blog

“[Analyzing unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) attacks; a disaster medicine perspective](doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2024.08.001)” by Associate Professor Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, and others, was published in the October issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2024 Oct;84:135-140. The article examined data on more than 250 drone attacks between 1970 and 2020.

Clinical Associate Professor Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, and Assistant Professor Rachel Wiltjer, DO, wrote “Mastering management of the acutely agitated patient” for the new third edition of Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department. For the same book, Dr. Wiltjer and Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, coauthored “See no evil: Mandatory reporting obligations.” Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MBA, MD,  and Associate Professor Sarah B. Dubbs, MD are among the coeditors of this edition, published October 24.

Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MBA, MD,  and Associate Professor Sarah B. Dubbs, MD are among the coeditors of the third edition of Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, published October 24 by Wolters Kluwer Health. The book is available in paperback and interactive e-book formats and can be converted to an audiobook. Dr. Winters and Professor Amal Mattu, MD, were editors of the second edition of Avoiding Common Errors, published in 2017.

Assistant Professor Alexis Salerno, MD, is the coeditor of the November issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on “Clinical Ultrasound in the Emergency Department” and first author of its introductory article, “[Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department: Past, Present, and Future](doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2024.05.016).” Emerg Med Clinics North Am. 2024 Nov;42(4):xvii-xxi.

Baltimore Magazine’s annual list of “Top Docs” in Emergency Medicine includes Associate Professor Brian Corwell, MD, who practices at Mercy Medical Center, and Assistant Professor J. David Gatz, MD, who practices at UMMC. The list, published in the magazine’s November issue, recognizes physicians in each specialty who receive the highest number of recommendations in a survey of their peers.

Associate Professors Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, and Daniel J. Haase, MD, and Assistant Professor Jessica Downing, MD, are among the authors of “The Impact of the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit on Quaternary Care Accessibility for Rural Patients: A Comparative Analysis,” published August 22 in Critical Care Research and Practice. The study found that “patients transferred from rural counties to the CCRU faced greater transport distances, but they received the same level of care upon arrival at the CCRU and had the same odds of in-hospital mortality as patients transferred from urban hospitals.”

Associate Professor Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, and Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, are among the authors of “Analyzing unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) attacks; a disaster medicine perspective,” published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2024;84:135-140.

Resident Andrew Piner, MD, Clinical Instructor Spencer Lovegrove, MD, Associate Professor Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, and Assistant Professor T. Andrew Windsor, MD, authored “A 77-Year-Old Male with a Rapid Change in Mental Status,” published June 14 in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 8(3). It is the most recent entry in the “Clinicopathological Cases from the University of Maryland” series published in CPC-EM.

The “Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response” chapter of the online emergency medicine textbook CorePendium, was updated August 26 by Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, and Phil Nawrocki, MD, of the Allegheny Health Network in Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor Jennifer Guyther, MD, is the editor of the Emergency Medicine Services section of CorePendium, and Ben Lawner, DO, is the associate editor. 

The “Bell Palsy” chapter of CorePendium was updated August 26 by Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP and Associate Professor Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang, MD, and the same authors updated the chapter on “Cranial Neuropathies” on August 30. Associate Professor Mike Abraham, MD, is editor of the Nervous System Disorders section of CorePendium.

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.