Department Blog

Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “A Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Model to Estimate Risk and Evaluate Factors Related to Drug-Involved Emergency Department Visits in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area,” published by Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment June 12, 2021.

Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Resident; Sam King, MD, Clinical Instructor; and Alexis Salerno, MD, Assistant Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Diagnosis of Boerhaave’s Syndrome With Aid of Bedside Ultrasound,” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine June 27, 2021.

Daniel J. Haase, MD, Assistant Professor, and Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Program in Trauma, were among the authors of “Predictors of Clinically Relevant Differences Between Noninvasive Versus Arterial Blood Pressure,” published by American Journal of Emergency Medicine in May 2021.

Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Plasma Gelsolin Modulates the Production and Fate of IL-1?-containing Microparticles Following High-Pressure Exposure and Decompression,” published by Journal of Applied Physiology May 1, 2021.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Diagnostic Performance of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Strategies and Clinical Variables in a Multisite US Cohort,” published by Circulation April 27, 2021.

Michael D. Witting, MD, Professor; Daniel L. Lemkin, MD, Assistant Professor; and Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Emergency Department Asthma ‘Spacing Trials’: Institutional Variability and Time Cost,” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine in April 2021.

Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate; and David E. Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Development of a Logic Model to Guide Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Integrated Health Transitional Care Program,” published by Population Health Management in April 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of the manuscript.

The Department of Emergency Medicine presented its 11th annual The Crashing Patient: Resuscitation and Risk Management Conference October 5–7, 2021, directed by Amal Mattu, MD, Professor. The third day of the event featured an administrative conference for the second year in a row, codirected by Amitabh Chandra, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen M. Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor; and Mercedes Torres, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, as well as a Cadaver Lab Procedures Workshop directed by Mak Moayedi, MD, Associate Professor, and taught by Michael L. Billet, MD, Assistant Professor; Cheyenne Falat, MD, Instructor; Sam King, MD, Clinical Instructor; Lauren Rosenblatt, MD, Instructor; Rebecca Rubenstein, MD, Clinical Instructor; Douglas G. Sward, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; and Dominic M. Williams, DO, Clinical Instructor. The conference included the following presentations by members of the department’s faculty:

• Michael K. Abraham, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor: “Your Neurons Don’t Like Lawsuits: High Risk Neurological Presentations”
• Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor: “Focus on POCUS:
  • Don’t Let the RV Strain You”
  • Don’t Stress with Respiratory Distress”
  • ECHO for Cath Lab Activation?!”
• Michael C. Bond, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Professor: “E3 - Extreme Extremity Emergencies”
• Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor: “More than Just a Sore Throat: Killer ENT Infections”
• Kenneth H. Butler, DO, Associate Professor: “Current Management of the Difficult Airway”
• Sarah B. Dubbs, MD, Assistant Professor: “Do No Harm: Usual Care That Can Harm Your Oncology Patient”
• Dr. Falat: “One Hot Mess: Resuscitating Heat Illness”
• J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor: “Transplant Train Wrecks”
• Kami M. Hu, MD, Assistant Professor: “Submersion Iatrogenica: Breaking the Hippocratic Oath”
• Dr. King: “Focus on POCUS: IVC Pitfalls in Fluid Resuscitation”
• Priya S. Kuppusamy, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor: “Peace Out! AMA Disasters”
• Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Associate Professor: “Tales from the Bleeding Edge: Tips for Terrible Traumatic Resuscitations”
• Rhamin Ligon, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor: “Selling Emergency Medicine to the C-Suite”
• Joseph P. Martinez, MD, Associate Professor: “The Crashing Cirrhotic”
• Dr. Mattu: “ECG Disasters and Near-Disasters! (Parts 1 and 2)”
• Neeraja T. Murali, DO, Assistant Professor: “Tiny Tots with Tummy Aches: A Crash Course in Peds GI Emergencies”
• Anthony R. Roggio, MD, Assistant Professor: “Building Telehealth”
• Dr. Rosenblatt: “A Shocking Tale of Refractory VFib”
• Dr. Rubenstein: “Pharmacologic Pitfalls at Discharge”
• Alexis Salerno, MD, Assistant Professor: “Focus on POCUS:
  • The FAST Exam - Saving Your Next Non-Trauma Patient”
  • Deadly Diagnoses Hiding in the Dirty Shadow”
• Dr. Schenkel: “Administrative Pandemic M&M”
• Angela D. Smedley, MD, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Gatz: “Cases in ED Administration”
• Ryan Michael Spangler, MD, Assistant Professor: “Atypical Presentation, Typical Risk ‘Down There’ ”
• Mark E. Sutherland, MD, Assistant Professor: “The Crashing Intubated Patient”
• Semhar Z. Tewelde, MD, Assistant Professor: “Killer B”
• R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor: “Managing the Sick Sickle Cell Patient”
• Dr. Williams: “Psychiatric Emergencies: When Mental Health Meets Critical Care”
• T. Andrew Windsor, MD, Assistant Professor: “Spinal Injury Disasters”

Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate and Health Economist; and David E. Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors—and Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscripts—of:

• “The Effect of a Mobile Integrated Health Program on Health Care Cost and Utilization,” which was accepted on July 19, 2021 for publication by Health Services Research
• “Analysis of an Alternative Model of Definitive Care for Low-Acuity Emergency Calls: A Natural Experiment,” which was accepted on July 20, 2021 for publication by Journal of Emergency Medicine

Alexis Salerno, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

• sole author of:
  • “System-Wide Clinical Ultrasound Committees,” published by The POCUS Report in fall 2020
  • “Remote Tele-Mentored Ultrasound: The Next Ultrasound Frontier,” published by Common Sense in March/April 2021
• coauthor of:
  • “Ultrasound Education in the COVID-19 Era,” published by Common Sense in July/August 2020
  • “The Strain of Pregnancy on the Aortic Root,” published by Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine in January 2021