Trauma remains a leading cause of mortality in the United States (
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). In 2016, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American College
of Surgeons Committee on Trauma were major stakeholders in the National Academy of
Science, Engineering and Medicine report that suggested there are up to 30,000 preventable
deaths from trauma annually in the United States, many from uncontrolled hemorrhage
(
3
). As the frontline provider, the emergency physician (EP) must receive extensive training
in the care of traumatically injured patients. Several procedural interventions, including
the performance of an emergency department resuscitative thoracotomy (EDRT), ultrasound,
and arterial catheter insertion, are therefore included as part of the Model of Clinical
Practice for Emergency Medicine (
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- The 2016 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency MedicineJournal of Emergency MedicineVol. 52Issue 6
- PreviewEmergency medicine (EM) has a scientifically derived and commonly accepted description of the domain of its clinical practice. That document, “The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine” (EM Model), was developed through the collaboration of six organizations: the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), the administrative organization for the project, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA), the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine (RRC-EM), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).
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