Recommendations for Updates to Emergency Medical Kits for Commercial Aviation.

Emergency medical kits (EMK) are provided to clinicians who volunteer on commercial aircraft during a medical emergency. The contents of the EMKs are mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States and, internationally, by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the country of airline origin. The mandatory contents of the kits have not been updated by the Federal Aviation Administration since 2006, and the EMKs continue to lack key equipment such as automated blood pressure cuffs, glucometers, pulse oximeters, and epinephrine autoinjectors.

Resonance sonomanometry for noninvasive, continuous monitoring of blood pressure.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Existing methods for continuous, noninvasive blood pressure (BP) monitoring suffer from poor accuracy, uncomfortable form factors, or a need for frequent calibration, limiting their adoption. We introduce a new framework for continuous BP measurement that is noninvasive and calibration-free called resonance sonomanometry.

Simulated Mass Casualty Incident Triage Exercise for Training Medical Personnel.

Audience: The target audience is any medical professional who requires training in mass casualty incident (MCI) triage. This could apply to pre-hospital specialists, nurses, medical students, residents, and physicians.

Introduction: Emergency medicine specialists must be able to triage patients quickly, especially in an MCI scenario.

Build Your Own Eye: A Method for Teaching Ocular Anatomy and Pathophysiology.

Audience: Residents and medical students.

Introduction: The eye is a critical, but often neglected, part of medical learning. This team-based learning (TBL) module was developed for emergency medicine residents and medical students; however, is applicable to any learner who should know basic eye anatomy and pathology.

Family Game Show-style Didactic for Teaching Nervous System Disorders during Emergency Medicine Training.

Audience: Emergency medicine residents and medical students.

Introduction: The field of emergency medicine requires learners to build a vast library of illness scripts to be accessible in a rapid manner. Illness scripts are refined and reinforced as senior physicians teach learners common associations between diagnoses, presentation, workup findings, and treatment modalities.