ACEP Frontline

In this Frontline Weekend Playlist episode, hear Dr. Marianne Wallis, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, present on LVAD emergencies from the Fourth Annual Leadership Symposium & EM: High Risk – Do Not Miss Conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Using a case-based approach, she covers how LVADs work, how to read the controller and alarms, and how to recognize and manage the most common emergencies — pump thrombus, suction events, arrhythmias, infection, and bleeding. The throughline: these patients can largely be managed like any other, with key exceptions — defibrillation and cardioversion are safe, and chest compressions are reserved for cases where the device itself is failing.

Recorded in Dallas at the Partner Collaborative, Dr. Ryan Stanton welcomes back Dr. Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA, FACEP, chair-elect of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF), for a conversation on the role of specialty-specific research in emergency medicine. Dr. Baugh discusses EMF's 50-plus year history funding over 700 investigators, how the foundation's scientific review committee and volunteer board evaluate grant applications, and why supporting early-career researchers, including students and residents, is a key priority. The two also discuss how AI and large datasets are lowering barriers to high-quality research, how EMF structures industry-sponsored grants at arm's length to protect research integrity, and how the foundation is funded primarily through donations.

In this Frontline Weekend Playlist episode, hear Dr. Gannon Sungar, DO, present "Syringes, Rocket Launchers, and Rum: Common Reduction Techniques in the Emergency Department" from the Fourth Annual Leadership Symposium & EM: High Risk – Do Not Miss Conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Rather than a comprehensive review, Dr. Sungar highlights a handful of practical, often-overlooked techniques for three of the ED's most common dislocations. For the mandible, he compares the syringe and extraoral techniques as gentler alternatives to the traditional intraoral approach. For the shoulder, he covers scapular manipulation as a universal adjunct along with the no-sedation Cunningham and Fares techniques, plus the shoulder-elbow method as a sedated rescue. For the hip, he walks through the Captain Morgan and rocket launcher techniques as safer alternatives to the classic Bigelow maneuver, along with the hip-foot fulcrum for tougher cases. The throughline: patience, positioning, and mechanical advantage can often beat brute force — a useful addition to any emergency physician's toolkit.

In this episode of ACEP Frontline, Dr. Ryan Stanton is joined by Dr. Michael McCrea to discuss his Michigan Emergency Medicine Assembly lecture, “2 AM Guideline Updates,” a practical review of recent evidence and guideline changes affecting emergency medicine practice. He highlights key updates in ACLS and PALS, pulmonary embolism risk stratification and disposition, ischemic stroke management, and ACEP’s updated aortic dissection clinical policy, focusing on take-home changes clinicians can apply at the bedside.

In this Frontline Weekend Playlist episode, hear Dr. Leon Adelman present “The Post-Pandemic Emergency Physician Job Market: Disasters, Disruptions, and Dynamism” from the Fourth Annual Leadership Symposium & EM: High Risk – Do Not Miss Conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado. He examines the evolving business landscape of emergency medicine, discussing consolidation, private equity, the No Surprises Act, reimbursement trends, and the forces shaping the emergency physician job market after the COVID-19 pandemic.