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Department of Surgery
Division of Emergency Medicine

The University of Utah Hospital Emergency Department is a fully approved Level 1 Trauma facility and tertiary referral center that is staffed by physicians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The department has a census of about 36,000 patient visits annually and provides excellent care for acute emergencies in all subspecialties of medicine and surgery. Patients from all over Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and western Colorado are referred to the emergency department for definitive medical care.

All full-time faculty in the division are trained in emergency medicine and certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Attending faculty are on duty 24 hours a day and are directly involved in the clinical training of housestaff and medical students. Academic faculty in the division are active in ongoing clinical trials and research at the University. The division also has a Research Fellowship Training Program and Clinical Toxicology Consult Service. Other specialties within the division include Directors of Emergency Medical Ambulance Services and Disaster Medicine. The Division of Emergency Medicine also runs the AirMed Patient Transport Service.

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February/March Updates

The University of Utah will be hosting the 2nd Annual MedWARs Utah wilderness medicine adventure race in Park City on February 20th. Info at www.medwar.org/utah.

Scott McIntosh, MD will be directing the Wilderness Medical Society Winter Conference in Park City from February 20-24. See the conference schedule at www.wms.org.

In March, Dr. Erik Barton, Dr. Stephen Hartsell, and Dr. Carl Seger will be in Ghana continuing the progress of starting Ghana's first Emergency Medicine Residency.

Dr. Michael Wilson will be attending the Advanced ED Management Course on March 8-10 in Las Vegas, NV.

Nine of our residents had posters, presentations and/or abstracts accepted at the 2010 Western Regional SAEM Research Conference in Sonoma, CA on March 19-21. Dr. Matthew Dawson, Dr. Shaneen Doctor, Dr. Mark Goodman, Dr. Jessica Holly, Dr. Michael Mallin, Dr. Erika Schroeder, Dr. Michael Wallace, Dr. Courtney Wilson, and Dr. Caroline Vines.

Transthoracic defibrillation potential gradients in a closed chest porcine model of prolonged spontaneous and electrically induced ventricular fibrillation. Niemann JT, Rosborough JP, Youngquist ST, Shah AP. Resuscitation. 2010 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Dr. Carl Seger will be attending the ACEP Teaching Fellowship in March

 

 

  

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