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POSTED: March 21st, 2017
POSTED IN: EPIC - The Official Newsletter of MOCEP, March/April 2017,

ACEP is in need of “Doc Blog” content for their Emergency Care For You site. They are looking for articles on basic consumer-health information and have provided suggested topics below. If you have other ideas, they are open to that as well. Articles should be 400-500 words in length, created in a Word document, and have some element of personal experience (mainly a patient or patients you treated once and how that experience can help others, etc.). Please reach out to Michael Baldyga, mbaldyga@acep.org, prior to writing content to verify there is still content needed for that topic.

Suggested Topics:

• Bike injuries that involved not wearing a helmet
• Can you drink too much water? What’s the risk of overhydrating?
• Staying healthy when traveling
• Boating injuries
• How technology is changing the way I do my job.
• Did you treat a shark attack victim? (this could be interesting)
• Jellyfish, stingray, etc.   Is urinating on yourself to treat it just a myth?
• Fire dangers/ Brush fire dangers – people clearing brush from their property, etc.
• Sexually transmitted diseases – what can bring people to the ED
• Snake bites
• Dealing with patients with dementia/Alzheimer’s
• Spotting the signs of dating violence
• Electric shock injuries
• Texting while walking injures
• Common foot injuries
• Drug shortages and how it affects your job
• Ambulance diversion
• How has technology helped you do your job differently. (What do you rely on now that didn’t exist when you started your career?)
• CT Scans in the ED
• How medical liability issues affect your job and why should patients care?
• Can spring allergies be dangerous?
• Dangers of food poisoning
• Common camping injuries
• An example of a patient who waited too long before going to the ED
• What is stroke?
• Stroke in women
• Stroke in children