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abstracts accepted - National conference of wilderness medicine 2009June 12, 2009The National Conference on Wilderness Medicine is geared toward health care providers who treat the unique needs of patients in wilderness environments. It also focuses on health problems that providers might see in patients who have recently returned from remote environments. The following abstracts and oral presentations written by Northwestern University Department of Emergency Medicine faculty and residents have been accepted to this year's meeting.Abstracts - Paper Presentations"Feasibility of 6MWT in healthy adults at high altitude on Aconcagua" - Matt Lazio, Jon Van Roo, Mark Courtney & Sanjeev Malik "Visual Analog Scales (VAS) for Assessment of Severe Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) on Aconcagua" - Matt Lazio, Jon Van Roo, Mark Courtney & Sanjeev Malik oral presentations"Predictive factors of successful summiting on Aconcagua" - Matt Lazio, Jon Van Roo, Mark Courtney & Sanjeev Malik Mark Courtney, MD wins award for best faculty presentation at SaemMay 21, 2009The Department of Emergency Medicine is proud to congratulate D. Mark Courtney, MD on the receipt of the "Best Faculty Presentation" award at the 2009 Annual Meeting from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. His presentation, "Prospective multi-center assessment of interobserver agreement for radiologist interpretation of 64-channel CT angiography for pulmonary embolism" was selected based on reviews of his abstract, manuscript and presentation at the meeting. Dr. Courtney will be recognized at the 2010 SAEM Business meeting to be held in Phoenix, Arizona later next year. Society for academic emergency Medicine Annual Meeting 2009May 14 - 17, 2009 - New Orleans, LouisianaThe SAEM Annual Meeting is the largest forum of its kind for the presentation of original research in the field of Emergency Medicine. The Department of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University is proud to recognize our faculty and residents for their contributions to this meeting.Abstracts - Paper presentations“Factors Affecting Dyspnea Reduction in Emergency Department Patients with Acute Heart Failure Syndromes” – Peter Pang (presenting author); Jim Kyriacou & Mark Courtney (co-authors) “Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis: a novel method to derive and validate a pre-test probability rule for pulmonary embolism” – Mark Courtney, (presenting author) "Prospective Multi-Center Assessment of Interobserver Agreement for Radiologist Interpretation of 64-Channel Angiography for Pulmonary Embolism” – Mark Courtney (presenting author) "Influence of Gender on the Clinical Presentation of Venous Thromboembolism: a Prospective, Multi-Center, Observational Study of Emergency Department Patients” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "Factors Associated with Positive D-Dimer Results in Patients Evaluated for Pulmonary Embolism” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "A Hospital-Wide Approach to Decreasing Emergency Department Congestion: Matching Supply with Demand” – Emilie Powell (presenting author); Rahul Khare & Arjun Venkatesh (co-authors) Abstracts - poster presentations“Educational Orphans: A Survey of EM Residency Directors on Didactics for Rotating Residents in the ED” – Jeremy Branzetti (presenting author); Amer Aldeen & Mark Courtney (co-authors) “Adaptation of the Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Emergency Medicine (EPEC-EM) Curriculum in a Residency Program Using Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Methodology” – Mike Gisondi (presenting author); Dave Lu, May Yen, Mark Courtney, & Paula Tanabe (co-authors) "Empiric Systemic Anticoagulation in Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "12-Lead Electrocardiogram Findings of Pulmonary Hypertension Occur More Frequently in Emergency Department Patients with Pulmonary Embolism than in Patients without Pulmonary Embolism” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "High Frequency Repeated Negative Computerized Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography in Emergency Department Patients” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "Pulmonary Infiltrates Revealed on CT in Patients with Negative Evaluation for Pulmonary Embolism” – Wes Self (presenting author); Mark Courtney (co-author) "History of Anxiety Significantly Decreases the Probability of Pulmonary Embolism in Symptomatic Emergency Department Patients” – Mark Courtney (co-author) "Implications of the Consensus SCCM/ACP Definition for Sepsis on Proposed Time-based Performance Measures” – Arjun Venkatesh (presenting author); Mike Schmidt, Peter Pang, & Mark Courtney (co-authors) Didactics“State-of-the-Art in Acute Heart Failure Syndromes: Evolving Role of the ED – Current State and a Framework for Future Research” – Peter Pang “Academic Career Development for Clinical Directors” – Chris Beach “The Science of Simulation in Heatlhcare: Follow-up of the 2008 AEM Consensus Conference” – John Vozenilek Chief resident forum“Communication as a Key to Leadership Success” – Jim Adams Medical Student symposium“The Interview” – Jamie Collings |