Welcome to the New Emergency Medicine

With this issue, Emergency Medicine expands upon its original mission of providing readable, essential, practical clinical advice, and inaugurates some of the most innovative changes in our 40-year history—changes designed to best meet the 21st century needs of all who practice our ever-changing specialty.

Each new issue of EM will once again offer in-depth feature articles on important clinical topics, along with all of our highly valued regular features that include Emergency Imaging, Case Studies in Toxicology, Derm Dilemmas, Challenges in Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, and Diagnosis at a Glance. Malpractice Counsel and Emergency Ultrasound will also re-appear in the near future, and new features will include “First EDition” which contains news and summaries of important meeting presentations and recent journal articles of particular interest to emergency physicians.

Emergency Medicine will also soon have an updated website at emed-journal.com, which will continue to offer easy access to articles from our print edition, while also presenting news, podcasts, quizzes, videos, and new multimedia and interactive features—all tailored to emergency physicians’ interests and CME needs. Best of all, the site will be optimized to enable easy reading on smart phones, iPads, and tablets. Readers will be able to leave a comment, share an article with colleagues, and incorporate items from the website into their personal media files. Also in the works is an on-line article submission site that will streamline our entire process of peer review and approval.

For this issue of EM, Keith D. Hentel, MD, Chief of Emergency and Musculoskeletal Imaging at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has assembled a group of colleagues knowledgeable in the imaging needs of emergency physicians, to present a broad, but detailed, survey of those imaging modalities currently used in practice and those that will be available in the near future. In months to come, a feature article entitled “How Inhibited Are You?” will consider direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs). Another article will focus on the recognition and management of carbon monoxide poisoning in the elderly and how to “winterize” them from the devastating effects of such seasonal illnesses as influenza, pneumonia, and frostbite. A third article will deal with life-threatening emergencies caused by “hardware for the heart”.

We look forward to hearing your comments on articles by e-mail at [email protected], or on our new website and, as always, please feel free to suggest topics for future clinical reviews and please let us know what you think of the “new” Emergency Medicine, and especially how the journal can better meet your needs and interests in the future.

With this issue, Emergency Medicine expands upon its original mission of providing readable, essential, practical clinical advice, and inaugurates some of the most innovative changes in our 40-year history—changes designed to best meet the 21st century needs of all who practice our ever-changing specialty.

Each new issue of EM will once again offer in-depth feature articles on important clinical topics, along with all of our highly valued regular features that include Emergency Imaging, Case Studies in Toxicology, Derm Dilemmas, Challenges in Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, and Diagnosis at a Glance. Malpractice Counsel and Emergency Ultrasound will also re-appear in the near future, and new features will include “First EDition” which contains news and summaries of important meeting presentations and recent journal articles of particular interest to emergency physicians.

Emergency Medicine will also soon have an updated website at emed-journal.com, which will continue to offer easy access to articles from our print edition, while also presenting news, podcasts, quizzes, videos, and new multimedia and interactive features—all tailored to emergency physicians’ interests and CME needs. Best of all, the site will be optimized to enable easy reading on smart phones, iPads, and tablets. Readers will be able to leave a comment, share an article with colleagues, and incorporate items from the website into their personal media files. Also in the works is an on-line article submission site that will streamline our entire process of peer review and approval.

For this issue of EM, Keith D. Hentel, MD, Chief of Emergency and Musculoskeletal Imaging at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has assembled a group of colleagues knowledgeable in the imaging needs of emergency physicians, to present a broad, but detailed, survey of those imaging modalities currently used in practice and those that will be available in the near future. In months to come, a feature article entitled “How Inhibited Are You?” will consider direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs). Another article will focus on the recognition and management of carbon monoxide poisoning in the elderly and how to “winterize” them from the devastating effects of such seasonal illnesses as influenza, pneumonia, and frostbite. A third article will deal with life-threatening emergencies caused by “hardware for the heart”.

We look forward to hearing your comments on articles by e-mail at [email protected], or on our new website and, as always, please feel free to suggest topics for future clinical reviews and please let us know what you think of the “new” Emergency Medicine, and especially how the journal can better meet your needs and interests in the future.

With this issue, Emergency Medicine expands upon its original mission of providing readable, essential, practical clinical advice, and inaugurates some of the most innovative changes in our 40-year history—changes designed to best meet the 21st century needs of all who practice our ever-changing specialty.

Each new issue of EM will once again offer in-depth feature articles on important clinical topics, along with all of our highly valued regular features that include Emergency Imaging, Case Studies in Toxicology, Derm Dilemmas, Challenges in Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, and Diagnosis at a Glance. Malpractice Counsel and Emergency Ultrasound will also re-appear in the near future, and new features will include “First EDition” which contains news and summaries of important meeting presentations and recent journal articles of particular interest to emergency physicians.

Emergency Medicine will also soon have an updated website at emed-journal.com, which will continue to offer easy access to articles from our print edition, while also presenting news, podcasts, quizzes, videos, and new multimedia and interactive features—all tailored to emergency physicians’ interests and CME needs. Best of all, the site will be optimized to enable easy reading on smart phones, iPads, and tablets. Readers will be able to leave a comment, share an article with colleagues, and incorporate items from the website into their personal media files. Also in the works is an on-line article submission site that will streamline our entire process of peer review and approval.

For this issue of EM, Keith D. Hentel, MD, Chief of Emergency and Musculoskeletal Imaging at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has assembled a group of colleagues knowledgeable in the imaging needs of emergency physicians, to present a broad, but detailed, survey of those imaging modalities currently used in practice and those that will be available in the near future. In months to come, a feature article entitled “How Inhibited Are You?” will consider direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs). Another article will focus on the recognition and management of carbon monoxide poisoning in the elderly and how to “winterize” them from the devastating effects of such seasonal illnesses as influenza, pneumonia, and frostbite. A third article will deal with life-threatening emergencies caused by “hardware for the heart”.

We look forward to hearing your comments on articles by e-mail at [email protected], or on our new website and, as always, please feel free to suggest topics for future clinical reviews and please let us know what you think of the “new” Emergency Medicine, and especially how the journal can better meet your needs and interests in the future.