Dallas Emergency Medicine

EMRA's latest happenings!

Did you know 22% of all healthcare costs are due to 1% of the US population?  Or 67% of all costs are due to 10%?  Asians only make up 2%:)  You can see more of these stats, just posted 1/12/12 at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/nn/nn011212.htm?_cldee=am15b3VuZzlAZ21haWwuY29t.  

Happy New Year!
The latest in EMRA news...
1. There are a couple of INTERESTING ways to bandage scalp lacs posted on the site Academic Life in Emergency Medicine!  The tie over method is found at http://academiclifeinem.blogspot.com/2011/12/trick-of-trade-tie-over-dre... The hair braid method can be found at http://academiclifeinem.blogspot.com/2011/12/trick-of-trade-bandaging-sc....

Good evening everyone! 

Below are some future goals EMRA has with regards to the different committees you could potentially be a part of....let me know if you want more info!
Educational - plan on creating an orthopedic problems quick card, ultrasound quick card, infusion quick card, and an online emergency medicine education page.
Technology - will redesign EMRA's webpage by early 2012 and create an EM Basics smartphone app

Good afternoon wonderful Parkland residents!

This month in EMRA news:
1. EMRA still needs resident mentors for med students around the country.  This is an easy add on for your resume.  Essentially, EMRA contacts you with email addresses of med students and you simply provide advice through email....sign up at http://www.emraforums.org/mentorship.pl?_cldee=am15b3VuZzlAZ21haWwuY29t.