Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026

Description 2026 COurse Videos Slides Overview  Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics that may include: Acute Compartment Syndrome Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates Airway Advances ARDS Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults Burns Cardiac Arrest Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine Current Practice in Newborn Fever Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for Your Next Shift Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do EKG’s Frailty Geriatric Falls Improving ED Patient Experience Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities Medical Jargon Mild Head Trauma Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What’s Known and What’s New Personalized Management in Septic Shock POCUS – (Cardiac, Lung, eFAST, Pediatrics, and Procedures) Postpartum Hemorrhage Predictive Model Evaluation Pulmonary Embolism Scrotal Pain Sepsis Updates Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine STI’s Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest Vasopressors and Shock Pearls What’s New in PEM Literature Wilderness Medicine / High Altitude Illness This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts. Learning Objectives  Identify underlying tachydysrhythmias.  Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.  Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.  Utilize latest evidence based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT. Day 1 — Monday, April 27, 2026 Welcome — Calvin Huang Echo in Pulmonary Embolism — Hamid Shokoohi Emergency Management of Burns — Robert Sheridan AI in the ED — Sayon Dutta Clinical Informatics in the ED — Shuhan He Geriatric Falls — Shan Liu Impact of Boarding on Geriatric Patients — Shan Liu Scrotal Pain in the ED — Andrew Eyre ARDS — Peter Hou Day 2 — Tuesday, April 28, 2026 Professionalism: What Does It Really Mean and Why Do We Care? Implications for Patient Safety, Collegiality, and Career Satisfaction — Jonathan Sonis Mild Head Trauma — Pierre Borczuk Cardiac Arrest — Sean Kivlehan Improving Emergency Department Patient Experience: Principles and Practice — Benjamin White Innovation in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities — Benjamin White Tele-Disaster Medicine – From COVID to Ukraine — Jarone Lee Current Practice in Newborn Fever — Jane Preotle Airway Advances — Annette Ilg Day 3 — Wednesday, April 29, 2026 POCUS Cardiac and Lung — Nicole Duggan POCUS E-FAST — Nour Al Jalbout; Alexander Belaia POCUS – Procedures (IV, LP) — Calvin Huang POCUS – Pediatric Cases — Sigmund Kharasch How to Read Ischemia on ECGs — John Nagurney Practice Updates in Acute PE — Angela Jarman Critical Care Double Feature: Push Dose Pressors in the ED and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal — Paul Jansson 10 Things You Never Imagined About Monitoring Blood Pressure: Practicality, Physiology, and Attention-Seeking Hyperbole — Andrew Reisner Day 4 — Thursday, April 30, 2026 Beyond “Medical Clearance”: ED Evaluation of the Patient Presenting with Acute Psychiatric Complaints — Lauren Nentwich Update on the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest — Keith Marill The 2026 Acute Ischemic Stroke Guidelines – Top 10 Take-homes for the Emergency Medicine Clinician — Kori Zachrison Cranial Nerve Deficits — Dan Egan Top Updates in PEM Literature AY 2025-2026 — Nicole Nadeau Recent Cardiologic Advances in EM — Keith Marill Vasopressors and Shock Pearls — Raghu Seethala On-field Management of Medical Emergencies in the Elite Athlete: Take-home Lessons for Your Next Shift — Jonathan Sonis Day 5 — Friday, May 1, 2026 Hand Injuries: How Would You Treat Them; Case-Based Updates — Michael Filbin STI — Donna Felsenstein Wilderness Medicine: High Altitude Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine — N. Stuart Harris Frostbite Management in the ED — L. Suzanne Leslie Practical Sustainability: Reducing Harm from Environmental Impacts of Healthcare — Jonathan Slutzman Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage — L. Suzanne Leslie Current Concepts in the Management of Septic Shock — Dana Stearns Ocular Emergencies — David Peak