Publications by authors named "Annalee M Baker"
Does academic practice protect emergency physicians against burnout?
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
February 2021
Article Synopsis
- Burnout is when people feel really tired and stressed from their jobs, and doctors, especially in emergency medicine, experience it more than others.
- It affects doctors' lives and can lead to mistakes that might harm patients, but working in academic medicine seems to help reduce burnout.
- This paper looks into what helps doctors feel better at work and suggests that hospitals should create programs to support doctors and keep them happy and healthy.
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is characterized by persistent change in mental status from baseline lasting more than 5 minutes, generally with epileptiform activity seen on EEG monitoring and subtle or no motor abnormalities. NCSE can be a difficult diagnosis to make in the emergency department setting, but the key to diagnosis is a high index of suspicion coupled with rapid initiation of continuous EEG and early involvement of neurology. Benzodiazepines are the mainstay of first-line therapy, with antiepileptic drugs and anesthetics as second- and third-line therapies, respectively.
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