EMERGENCY MEDICINE NEWS FOR VIRGINIA

Virginia emergency physicians face critical elections in 2025. Learn how new laws, key races, and VACEP’s advocacy efforts underscore the urgent need to support EMPAC-VA.

Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and VCU Health consider the October 2024 JAMA study on transfusion strategies in acute brain injury. Here's their review.

Each year, VACEP selects one or several early career emergency physicians to take part in our Leadership & Advocacy Fellowship. This one-year program pairs rising emergency physicians with a more senior attending, with the goal of taking on projects or experiencing the non-clinical parts of the job — like advocacy, education, and training. Meet our new Fellows.

Physicians at VCU Health and UVA Health consider a June 2024 study in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks at noninvasive ventilation for preoxygenation during emergency intubation. Here’s their review.

As VACEP seeks a legislative fix to resolving unfounded Board of Medicine complaints, we’ve compiled a handbook to walk physicians through the process of responding to such a complaint.

A delegation of 19 Virginia emergency physicians and support staff traveled to Washington for this week’s American College of Emergency Physicians Leadership & Advocacy Conference. Here’s what they did.

Physicians at VCU Health and Naval Center Portsmouth analyze a recent peer-reviewed clinical study on bloodstream infection in the ED from the Journal of Emergency Medicine’s December 2024 edition as part of our latest Evidence-Based Medicine Review Series.

Get the presentation from our Leadership Summit and learn how Riverside Health System cut ED boarding by nearly half and gained new ED efficiencies.

Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and Virginia Tech Carilion review a study looking at high-flow nasal oxygen vs. noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure.

At the General Assembly’s halfway mark, a look at where bills related to emergency medicine stand.