Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) is the official monthly publication of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and publishes information relevant to the practice, educational advancements, and investigation of emergency medicine. It is the second largest peer-reviewed scientific journal in the specialty of emergency medicine. The goal of AEM is to advance the science, education, and clinical practice of emergency medicine, to serve as a voice for the academic emergency medicine community, and to enhance the goals and objectives of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Members and non-members worldwide depend on this journal for translational medicine relevant to emergency medicine, in addition to clinical news, case studies and more.
A new study has found that during the pandemic pediatric emergency departments (EDs) saw more children and adolescents who needed a psychiatric admission, as well as an increase in severe conditions, such as bipolar disorder, ...
Apr 2, 2024
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A new study that contributes additional data to a growing body of evidence demonstrating disparities in restraint use in the emergency department (ED) has been published in Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM),. The study, titled ...
Jan 22, 2024
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A new study offers a novel look at the scope of the youth mental health crisis across the United States—in 2019-2020, more than 1 in 10 kids who were brought to the hospital by ambulance had a behavioral health emergency. ...
Nov 16, 2023
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A study analyzing the practice of spinal motion restriction (SMR) between 2009 and 2019 has been published in the July issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM). The study, titled Patterns of Change in Prehospital Spinal ...
Oct 7, 2023
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Older adults who come to the Emergency Department (ED) with altered mental status (AMS), delirium, or confusion are more likely to have an acutely abnormal finding on computed tomography (CT) if they have a focal neurological ...
Jun 30, 2023
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 million hospital emergency department (ED) visits took place annually in the U.S. In two studies, Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Sharmistha Dev, M.D., MPH, and colleagues ...
May 25, 2023
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The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) has released its third publication in a series of Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE-3), which focuses on acute dizziness and ...
May 11, 2023
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ReadiScores—fatigue data gathered from a novel actigraphy device, the ReadiBand—can be used to index emergency physician (EP) fatigue and therefore can be used to evaluate interventions designed to reduce fatigue in emergency ...
Mar 28, 2023
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When compared to cocaine exposure alone, cocaine and ethanol exposure in emergency department (ED) patients with acute drug overdose was significantly associated with higher occurrence of cardiac arrest, higher mean lactate ...
Mar 1, 2023
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Among emergency department patients with severe hypothermia and cardiac arrest, survival was significantly higher with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) versus conventional rewarming. Further, among all hypothermic ...
Mar 1, 2023
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