This message was sent to ##Email## May 22, 2019       Home  |   About  |   Membership  |   EMpulse   |   Support Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise    FCEP MEMBERSHIP NEWS FCEP's Committee & Board Meetings Begin Today Call-in to participate: Number: 866-453-5550 Passcode: 486231# May 22, 2019: Committee Meetings 9:00 am: EMS/Trauma 10:00 am: Education & Academic Affairs 11:00 am: Medical Economics & Government Affairs 12:30 pm: Lunch 1:00 pm: Membership & Professional Development 2:00 pm: EMRAF May 23, 2019: Joint FCEP/FEMF Board Meeting 9:00 am to 1:00 pm     .  SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT     Call for Abstracts: 11th Annual Symposium Research Poster Presentation The 11th annual emergency medicine research & clinical case poster presentation will be held at Symposium by the Sea 2019. The poster session is open to medical students, emergency medicine residents, EM fellows, faculty and practicing physicians in Florida. In order to be judged in this competition, the individual who appears as the first author of each abstract or case must be a medical student, resident or fellow. Submission Deadlines: EM Residents & Fellows: July 12, 2019 Medical Students: July 19, 2019 Please send abstracts and cover sheets via e-mail to Niala Ramoutar at nramoutar@emlrc.org with the subject: "2019 Symposium Abstract Submission." Click Here for More Details Symposium by the Sea 2019 August 1-4, 2019 Boca Raton Resort & Club Boca Raton, FL Approved for up to 15.0 AMA Category 1 PRA Credits™ and 13.0 nursing contact hours FCEP members: $100 | FCEP residents & students: free! Register Now Read our Brochure Here Happy EMS Week! CLINCON 2019 is 20% Off Until Sunday CLINCON is 20% off for EMS providers with code EMSLOVE this week only. Spread the word! CLINCON 2019 Florida's Premier EMS/Fire Conference July 17-19, 2019 DoubleTree by Hilton—Universal Studios Orlando, FL Register Now Free Street Drugs Webinar Expires Tomorrow Dealing with the Unknown: Risks Associated with Adulterants of Illicit Substances By Kristen C. Lee, PharmD, BCPS 1.0 CME | 1-hour webinar ACCME | FBON | FEMS | FPA | CAPCE Free & available until May 23, 2019 Watch Now EDPMA's Telehealth Workshop is Next Week! Register Now By EDPMA The Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) is hosting a workshop called "Integrating Telehealth into Your ED Practice" on May 29-30, 2019 at the Holiday Inn DFW Airport South in Fort Worth, TX. Telehealth is becoming a critically important tool in the emergency department. This hands-on workshop with industry expert speakers is designed to provide real-time practical tools that you can bring home and implement immediately into your practice group or organization. View the Agenda | Register Here Dr. Jayant Rao Elected as Hillsborough County Medical Society President On May 13, 2019, FCEP member Dr. Jayant Rao was installed as the 2019-20 President of Hillsborough County Medical Society. According to HCMS's Facebook, "Dr. Rao's enthusiasm was apparent as he accepted the President's Gavel from Dr. Bernasek and announced his goals for the coming year." Congratulations, Dr. Rao! What Every Graduating Resident Needs to Know About Reimbursement By EMRA E/M, CPT, RVU, and MDM, oh my! The ACEP Reimbursement Committee teamed up with EMRA Admin & Ops to release this short primer on how EM physicians get reimbursed. Did you know that in 2019, every RVU is worth $36.04, and that simple tips on documentation can help bump a Level 3 visit (1.75 RVUs - $63.07) into a Level 5 visit (4.89 RVUs - $176.24)? With this 5 minute read, you’ll be ready to take on these new reimbursement responsibilities of being an attending. Knowledge is power! ICYMI: 2019 Legislative Session Report Now Available FCEP's 2019 Legislative Session Report is now available. This interactive report includes an overview of important bills that passed and failed, as well as bill summaries for more than 35 healthcare-related bills. Read it Now ICYMI: 45 Under 45 EM Influencers Nominations Due July 15 By EMRA EMRA is celebrating its 45th anniversary with the 45 Under 45 award. We want to celebrate young influencers in EM who are shaping the future of our specialty. Have you nominated a mentor, co-resident, or all-around EM rockstar? If you haven't yet, you should! Complete the easy nomination form by 7/15. Register for ALS/BLS Competition 2019 35th Annual Bill Shearer ALS/BLS Competition Hosted during CLINCON July 18-19, 2019 DoubleTree by Hilton — Universal Studios Orlando, FL Register Now  UPCOMING FCEP & EMLRC EVENTS DATE EVENT LOCATION MAY 22, 2019 FCEP Committee Meetings — 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Orlando MAY 23, 2019 FCEP Board Meeting — 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Orlando JULY 17-19, 2019 CLINCON: Premier EMS/Fire Conference | Register Now Orlando JULY 18-19, 2019 Bill Shearer ALS/BLS Competition Orlando AUG. 1-4, 2019 Symposium by the Sea 2019 | Learn More Boca Raton To see the full calendar, click here. MISSED AN ISSUE OF THE FCEP EMNEWS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY.  NATIONAL EM NEWS Florida healthcare: Deregulating rules, busting up monopolies and becoming more patient friendly Florida Daily Bills dealing with consumer choice and healthcare competition are now on sitting on the desk of Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign. One of those healthcare bills is HB 843, which encompasses provisions that would undo burdensome regulations which for years have added rising costs to healthcare. The bill addresses a number of different policies but they all have a common theme of providing more options when it comes to choice. HB 843 also deals with physician shortages which has been a problem in the Sunshine State. The Florida Department of Health's own annual report note, if not addressed, this problem will only get worse.  READ MORE Warning signs: Many cardiac arrest victims visited doctors, emergency rooms prior to events TCTMD Challenging the conventional wisdom that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurs without warning, new data show that more than 1 in 4 patients experiencing arrest have actually been previously assessed in an emergency room within the 90 days before their event. What's more, many visited their primary care physician in the months leading up to the cardiac arrest, the researchers note. "Sudden cardiac death is not [always] so sudden," lead study author Mony Shuvy, MD (Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel), told TCTMD. "There are symptoms, and in order to prevent this awful event we need to characterize the patients that come to our hospital emergency [departments], go to family physicians, and try to understand that the symptoms they are coming with might be signs of an event that is going to occur."  READ MORE Telehealth is improving healthcare in rural areas Harvard Business Review In rural America, patients are often hundreds of miles from the care they need. Community hospitals, with low volumes and limited budgets, usually don't have specialists like neonatologists, neurologists and cardiologists on staff. And even when they do, there are often too few to ensure constant coverage. Telehealth transforms those situations to everyone's benefit.  READ MORE New study suggests levetiracetam for epileptic seizures in children when benzodiazepines fail By Lynn Hetzler Emergency department clinicians typically treat status epilepticus with benzodiazepines, followed as necessary with phenytoin, but this approach often leads to intubation and ventilation. Now, the results of a study from researchers in New Zealand and Australia suggest there is a better way to treat severe epileptic seizures in children, and the results of the study will likely change how ED doctors around the world manage status epilepticus in pediatric patients.  READ MORE In high demand, new doctors recruited like blue chip athletes Fierce Healthcare What do new doctors and blue chip athletes have in common? Both are in high demand and are being heavily recruited, according to a Merritt Hawkins survey. Forty-five percent of new doctors received 100 or more job solicitations during their training, and two-thirds (66%) of new doctors said they received 51 or more job solicitations. That's not surprising given the fact that an Association of American Medical Colleges report released recently projected a shortage of approximately 122,000 physicians by 2032, including a shortage of 55,000 primary care physicians and approximately 66,000 too few specialists.  READ MORE Nearly 1 in 5 parents say their child never wears a helmet while riding a bike Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan via EurekAlert Despite evidence that helmets are critical to preventing head injuries, not all children wear them while biking, skateboarding and riding scooters, a new national poll finds. Eighteen percent of parents say their child never wears a helmet on a bike ride, and even more say their kids skip helmets on a skateboard (58%) and scooter (61%), suggests the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.  READ MORE How conversational AI can help cure physician burnout Forbes Healing patients is why doctors choose to practice medicine. Dissatisfaction is sounding alarms as physicians leave the field at alarming rates. At the most recent Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference, technology was front and center of industry efforts to improve health care. Nuance Communications' focus on how conversational AI and ambient clinical intelligence are particularly promising, and Forbes' Ben Kerschberg had the opportunity to speak at length with Nuance CEO Mark Benjamin about how technology may help cure physician burnout.  READ MORE Do therapy dogs belong in hospital emergency rooms? Psychology Today Research on the effectiveness of animal-assisted interventions in hospital settings has produced mixed results. Published studies have found that interactions with therapy dogs reduce the need for pain medication in surgery patients, decrease depression in individuals undergoing chemotherapy, and ameliorate anxiety in women hospitalized for high-risk pregnancies. Other studies, however, have been less encouraging.  READ MORE Battery retention may still pose serious gastric risk in kids MedPage Today Children who ingested small, coin-shaped batteries, used to power watches or hearing aids, still experienced gastric injury even if they were asymptomatic, researchers said recently at the annual Digestive Disease Week. Of 68 endoscopic removals for button battery ingestion, 60% showed evidence of mucosal damage, including erosion, ulcerations, some cases of necrosis, and one case of gastric perforation, reported Racha Khalaf, MD, of the Children's Hospital Colorado in St. Petersburg, Florida, and colleagues. Mucosal injury was not associated with the presentation of symptoms, or the duration of the battery retention, suggesting that even patients who present without symptoms could be at risk, and that prompt removal of the foreign body may be necessary.  READ MORE Understanding how millennial nurses view their prospective employers By Amanda Ghosh Out of the four generations in today's workforce, the millennial generation is the largest. They're also the future of healthcare. Although the delayed retirement of older nurses has provided a buffer against low retention rates among new nurses, it's only a matter of time before this buffer wanes. It's time to tailor our work environments to meet their needs. Is your organization ready to attract and retain new nurse grads from the millennial generation? 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