USC Department of Emergency Medicine

The Center for Trauma, Violence and Injury Prevention presents the upcoming speaker series. http://www.usc.edu/programs/ctvip/

Dr. Gail V. Anderson was truly the father of Emergency Medicine. He launched the new medical specialty at USC in 1971 and his legacy continues to live on today.

The CPR Training Team @ LAC + USC Department of Emergency Medicine & Keck School of Medicine of USC will be holding a FREE CPR certification class for USC students/alumni on Friday October 3rd from 8:30-10:30 am. The class will be held in the VKC building room # 161. The address for the building can be found below. The Von KleinSmid Center University of Southern California 3518 Trousdale Parkway... Los Angeles, CA 90089-0048 There is limited space so please be sure to email [email protected] with your RSVP as soon as possible. This will be on a first come first serve basis.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan McGarry, a graduate of our program and the director of the fantastic documentary Code Black!

Check out the interview given by Dr. Cynthia Bir, on behalf of the our Center for Trauma, Violence and Injury Prevention to Channel 11's Fox & Friends Broadcast regarding the recent plane crash. Dr. Bir has been instrumental in research regarding injuries from place crashes including a staged crash done by the Discovery Channel in 2012. For more information about the center please visit the website: www.uscctvip.com

Research led by our own Carl Berdahl, a medical intern in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, has found that emergency physicians in Ontario, Canada, use CT scans less than doctors in the United States. "Our study wasn't able to look at whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for patients in terms of patient outcome, but I think it does beg the question: Since the technology is available in both countries, why is it being used twice as often in the U.S.?" Berdahl said. Check out the article by Reuters Health.

The ACEP Scientific Assembly Registration is now open. We hope to see you in Seattle, Washington October 14-17!

The LAC+USC Medical Center and the Department of Emergency Medicine teamed up for National CPR Week to teach over 1,000 members of the community Hands-only CPR.

LAC+USC's 1st Annual Injury Prevention and Safety Day at LAC+USC was quite a success. Participants included Judy Riches and Ellen Maniago from the Burn Center, Kelly Katzberg and Graciela Magana of ThinkFirst LA County and many others. CHP was on hand doing carseat safety checks, free child ID kits were provided by Kids are 1st, the LA County Fire Department brought out the Shakey Quakey School House and there was an exciting presentation by the Department of Water and Power demonstrating the dangers of powerlines.

Saint Patrick's Day found the DEM out on site at the LA Marathon!

Congratulations to the abstract presenters for the 2013 SAEM Annual Meeting! The meeting will be held in Atlanta this year. For more information please visit www.saem.org

On September 6th, the Chief residents of The Department of Emergency Medicine had the pleasure of hosting the All LA conference on the Health Sciences Campus at USC. Three times a year, the Los Angeles Emergency Programs get together for a joint conference. Attendees had the pleasure of hearing Corey Slovis, MD Chair of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University speak.