When Jean Hoffman, MD, was growing up, she watched "ER," the long-running NBC series about an urban hospital's often-chaotic emergency department. The experience steered her toward a career in ...

Recent years have seen emergency departments (EDs) face escalating pressures due to rising patient volumes, unpredictable surges, and increasing operational ...

A new national study shows that while many emergency medical services (EMS) agencies across the United States are well-equipped to care for children, important gaps remain in training, quality ...

International experts in emergency medicine have warned that climate change is likely to have a severe impact on emergency services around the world. Despite this, few countries have assessed the ...

While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. The American College of ...

Following years of criticism, the Brown emergency medicine residency program is no longer using live animals to train its residents. Previously, the program had intubated live pigs for emergency ...