Department Blog - September 2024

Associate Professors Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, and Daniel J. Haase, MD, and Assistant Professor Jessica Downing, MD, are among the authors of “The Impact of the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit on Quaternary Care Accessibility for Rural Patients: A Comparative Analysis,” published August 22 in Critical Care Research and Practice. The study found that “patients transferred from rural counties to the CCRU faced greater transport distances, but they received the same level of care upon arrival at the CCRU and had the same odds of in-hospital mortality as patients transferred from urban hospitals.”

Associate Professor Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, and Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, are among the authors of “Analyzing unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) attacks; a disaster medicine perspective,” published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2024;84:135-140.

Resident Andrew Piner, MD, Clinical Instructor Spencer Lovegrove, MD, Associate Professor Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, and Assistant Professor T. Andrew Windsor, MD, authored “A 77-Year-Old Male with a Rapid Change in Mental Status,” published June 14 in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 8(3). It is the most recent entry in the “Clinicopathological Cases from the University of Maryland” series published in CPC-EM.

The “Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response” chapter of the online emergency medicine textbook CorePendium, was updated August 26 by Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, and Phil Nawrocki, MD, of the Allegheny Health Network in Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor Jennifer Guyther, MD, is the editor of the Emergency Medicine Services section of CorePendium, and Ben Lawner, DO, is the associate editor. 

The “Bell Palsy” chapter of CorePendium was updated August 26 by Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP and Associate Professor Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang, MD, and the same authors updated the chapter on “Cranial Neuropathies” on August 30. Associate Professor Mike Abraham, MD, is editor of the Nervous System Disorders section of CorePendium.