Department Blog

Ashley Martinelli, PharmD, UMMC Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, and Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of "High-dose nitroglycerin infusion description of safety and efficacy in sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary edema: The HI-DOSE SCAPE study," Am J Emerg Med. 2023 Jan;63:74-78. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.10.018. Epub 2022 Oct 18. Coauthors were Brandon Houseman and Wesley Oliver of the UMMC Department of Pharmacy and Sandeep Devabhakthuni of the School of Pharmacy at UMB.

This report is the largest study to examine the infusion of ?100 mcg/min of nitroglycerin as a strategy for the management of sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary edema (SCAPE). It concludes that infusion may be a safe alternative to intermittent bolus of high-dose nitroglycerin.

Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on “A Case Review Discussing Shock” with the Baltimore Critical Care Transport Collaborative on August 23, 2021.

Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, and Bradford E. Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the creators of the Emergency Department Drug Surveillance (EDDS) system, along with the University of Maryland, College Park’s Center for Substance Abuse Research, led by Eric Wish, PhD. The EDDS system collects data from drug screens performed on patients experiencing overdose in UMMS hospitals. Those deidentified data were published on November 30, 2021, and are now available for researchers to examine and work with.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on:

• CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer commenting on Louisiana’s COVID outbreak and Hurricane Ida evacuation August 28, 2021
• Max Out Time with AJ II, Black Business Month’s videocast “Episode 82: Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne Has Invented the ‘Band Aid’ for Nosebleed Emergencies” August 31, 2021
• Reel Emergency’s videocast and podcast “Episode 5 - End of Life Care” September 7, 2021
• Yahoo Finance’s “Doctor: This Conversation About Boosters Doesn’t Take Place Just in the U.S.” September 17, 2021
• CBS News’s “Delta Variant Surge May Be Peaking as U.S. Daily Deaths Top 2,000” September 22, 2021

Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Hannah Goldberg, MD, Resident; Jon Hurst, MD, Resident; and Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Anchoring Vignettes as a Method to Address Implicit Gender Bias in Patient Experience Scores,” published by Annals of Emergency Medicine July 23, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of an early draft of the manuscript.

Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate; Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen M. Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor; and Brian J. Browne, MD, Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Balancing Efficiency and Access: Discouraging Emergency Department Boarding in a Global Budget System” published by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine September 2, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of the manuscript.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of:

• Emergency ECGs: Case-Based Review and Interpretations, published by EMRA August 29, 2021
• “Can I Send This Syncope Patient Home from the Emergency Department?” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine September 15, 2021

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “40 Facemasks: Perceptions and Use in an Emergency Department Population During COVID-19” and “54 The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study,” both published by Annals of Emergency Medicine August 4, 2021

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in “The BaSICS Trial – Implications for Fluid Resuscitation” episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast, published August 29, 2021.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study,” published by Annals of Emergency Medicine May 31, 2021.