Jeff:Welcome back to Emplify, the podcast corollary to EB Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Practice. I’m Jeff Nusbaum, and I’m back with my co-host, Nachi Gupta. We’ll be taking you through the July 2018 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice: Emergency department management of dyspnea in the dying patient.
Nachi: This month’s issue was authored by two of our former attendings. Dr. Ashley Shreves who is an Emergency and Palliative Care physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans and Dr. Trevor Pour who is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. This article was edited by Dr. Ethan Cowan of Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Dr. Michael Turchiano of Maimonides Medical Center.
Jeff: Because ED-related palliative care literature is somewhat sparse, much of the data and recommendations presented in this month’s issue come from studies conducted outside the emergency setting..
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Drs. Gupta and Nusbaum are practicing emergency physicians. Join Jeff, a former firefighter, and Nachi, a former mathematician, as they take you through the July 2018 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice: Emergency department management of dyspnea in the dying patient.
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Ashley Shreves, MD; Trevor R. Pour, MD
Ethan Cowan, MD, MS; Michael Turchiano, MD
July 1, 2018
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