Volume 16 Issue 2

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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

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2015 Conferences LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE // Sacramento

JUNE 12, 2015

ANNUAL ASSEMBLY // Los Angeles/Universal City

Open Access at www.westjem.com

ISSN 1936-900X

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health

ENDEMIC INFECTIONS 212 Identify-Isolate-Inform: A Tool for Initial Detection and Management of Measles Patients in the Emergency Department

KL Koenig, W Alassaf, MJ Burns

VOLUME XVI, NUMBER 2, March 2015

APRIL 21, 2015

Volume XVI, Number 2, March 2015

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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 220 Kiosk versus In-person Screening for Alcohol and Drug Use in the Emergency Department: Patient Preferences and Disclosure

A Hankin, L Haley, A Baugher, K Colbert, D Houry

HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION 229 Patients Who Use Multiple EDs: Quantifying the Degree of Overlap between ED Populations

BS Fertel, KW Hart, CJ Lindsell, RJ Ryan, MS Lyons

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES 234 Do Emergency Physicians and Medical Students Find It Unethical to ‘Look up’ Their Patients on Facebook or Google?

M Ben-Yakov, A Kayssi, JD Bernardo, CM Hicks, K Devon

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Inferior Vena Cava Filter Fracture: Potential Liability for Emergency Physicians

RM Pescatore, BM Baumann, D Nocchi

TECHNOLOGY IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE 242 The Social Media Index: Measuring the Impact of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Websites

B Thoma, JL Sanders, M Lin, QS Paterson, J Steeg, TM Chan

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Non-thrombotic Abnormalities on Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Ultrasound Examinations

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Can Emergency Physicians Perform Common Carotid Doppler Flow Measurements to Assess Volume Responsiveness?

S Adhikari, Wes Zerger

LA Stolz, JM Mosier, AM Gross, MJ Douglas, M Blaivas, S Adhikari

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Bedside Ultrasound Identification of Infectious Flexor Tenosynovitis in the Emergency Department

PAGES 212-363

K Padrez, J Bress, B Johnson, A Nagdev

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