Department Blog

Youssef Annous, BS, Visiting Research Fellow; Sara Manning, MD, Assistant Professor; and Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Ferritin, Fever, and Frequent Visits: Hyperferritinemic Syndromes in the Emergency Department,” published by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 14, 2021.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the:

• authors of “Angiotensin II for the Emergency Physician,” published by Emergency Medicine Journal in November 2020.
• discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episodes:
  • “The Physiologically Difficult Airway,” published April 20, 2021.
  • “Early ED Sepsis Care,” published May 10, 2021

Kenneth H. Butler, DO, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “The Physiologically Difficult Airway,” episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast on April 20, 2021, discussing pearls and pitfalls in intubating patients with physiologic derangements that place them at high-risk for peri-intubation catastrophes.

George C. Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Evaluation and Management of the Critically Ill Adult With Diabetic Ketoacidosis,” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine on August 4, 2020.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of:

• “European Society of Cardiology 0-hour/1-hour High-sensitivity Troponin Algorithm Performance in a United States Cohort” and “One and Done? Performance of a Single, Low High-sensitivity Troponin in a Multisite United States Cohort,” both published by Academic Emergency Medicine in July 2020.
• “Evaluation of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour Algorithm in the Diagnosis of 90-day Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events: A Multicenter United States Cohort Study,” published by European Heart Journal on November 25, 2020.

Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

• among the authors of “The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for COVID-19: A Review,” published by Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology on July 22, 2020.
• second author of “Effects of Adjunctive Therapeutic Hypothermia Combined With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Acute Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning,” published by Critical Care Medicine in August 2020.

Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Association Between Level of Care and Colonization With Resistant Gram-negative Bacteria Among Nursing-home Residents,” published by Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on March 22, 2021.

Sarah K. Sommerkamp, MD, Assistant Professor, and Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Comparison of 4 Tests’ Utility for Predicting Need for Emergency Department Care in Patients With Alcohol-related Complaints,” published by American Journal of Emergency Medicine on January 29, 2021.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “The Relationship of Large City Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrests and the Prevalence of COVID-19,” published by EClinicalMedicine on April 7, 2021.

Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “20-year Mortality After Discharge in a Cohort of 1,099 Former Trauma Inpatients With and Without Substance Use Disorders,” published by Injury on October 10, 2020.