Staying InformED: Top emergency Medicine pharmacotherapy articles of 2020

The year 2020 was not easy for Emergency Medicine (EM) clinicians with the burden of tackling a pandemic. A large focus, rightfully so, was placed on the evolving diagnosis and management of patients with COVID-19 and, as such, the ability of clinicians to remain up to date on key EM pharmacotherapy literature may have been compromised. This article reviews the most important EM pharmacotherapy publications indexed in 2020. A modified Delphi approach was utilized for selected journals to identify the most impactful EM pharmacotherapy studies. A total of fifteen articles, eleven trials and four meta-analyses, were identified. This review provides a summary of each study, along with a commentary on the impact to the EM literature and EM clinician.

Description

This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

Keywords

Emergency medicine, Pharmacotherapy, Review

Cite As

Zimmerman, D. E., Sarangarm, P., Brown, C. S., Faine, B., Flack, T., Gilbert, B. W., Howington, G. T., Kelly, G., Laub, J., Porter, B. A., Slocum, G. W., & Rech, M. A. (2021). Staying InformED: Top emergency Medicine pharmacotherapy articles of 2020. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 49, 200–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2021.05.061

ISSN

07356757

Journal

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Rights

Public Health Emergency

Source

PMC

Type

Article

Permanent Link

https://hdl.handle.net/1805/27872

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2021.05.061

Version

Final published version

Collections

Open Access Coronavirus-Related Works
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Works
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