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Pediatric EM Procedures

In comparison to adult Emergency Medicine, the pediatric realm does not often lead to critical care procedures. Fortunately for the children, they do not require advanced procedures as often as their adult counterparts. Unfortunately for the physicians who care for the pediatric patient, the lower overall number of pediatric patients requiring procedures means that we may become less adept than we would like.

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  Procedures Club

Welcome proceduralists! Procedures Club is a collection for emergency medicine enthusiasts, by emergency physicians. We will be covering rarely done but often discussed procedures, obscure techniques, and MacGyver-like maneuvers that impress the youths.

 The Emergency Procedures App

The app is targeted at clinicians performing procedures within the emergency department. It is designed to help those training and as a memory aid for experienced clinicians. It is based on the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) syllabus, providing standardised recommendations for common emergency department procedures with the aim to reduce variation in practice and provide an evidenced-based methodology to assist providers to perform procedures safely and competently.

 The Procedural Pause

The blog will focus on procedures that emergency medicine residents and midlevel providers are often called on to perform in the ED. Each case will cover the basics, the best approach for treatment, and pearls and pitfalls. The Procedural Pause publishes anonymous case studies that required an ED procedure.

 Ultrasound Guided Procedures & Diagnostic Point-of-Care Ultrasound

This site was created to teach faculty, residents, fellows and medical students bedside procedures and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). The content is specifically tailored for hospitalists’ patient population.

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Bedside procedures

We are committed to providing high quality education to improve the care of the emergency patient.

Core Procedure Videos

Core EM is dedicated to bringing Emergency Providers all things core content Emergency Medicine. In the true spirit of Emergency Medicine our content is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Procedural Skills

One of the first steps in becoming more comfortable is to familiarize yourself with the procedure(s) that you would like to learn to perform. These can be procedures that you have a high likelihood of performing, or they can be selected procedures that are uncommon or that you are less familiar with. Couple this choice with your career interests, and you have a good place to start.

Resources

16 ED Procedures Medical Students Should Know

All of these procedures can be searched for on Google or YouTube where you can find instructional videos on how-to, indications, contraindications, and more!

Brown Emergency Medicine

Procedures...

International Emergency Medicine Education Project

We promote emergency medicine and provide free, reusable education resources for medical students and educators.

RebelEM

Procedures and Skills...

YKHC

Common ED Procedures...