gender-specific emergency care: part one

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Gender-specific Emergency Care: Part One

Current research indicates that there are significant physiologic differences between men and women that mayhave important clinical implications in the emergency care of patients. This is a two-part video presentation thatreviews eight clinical topics applying the “gender lens” as it relates to the practice of emergency medicine (EM).Part 1 reviews the following topics: cardiovascular, neurology, sports medicine, and pain. Part 2 includes substanceabuse, trauma, pulmonary, and toxicology.

At the completion of this presentation, participants should be able to describe concrete examples of physiologicgender differences with significant implications for the clinical practice of EM and illustrate examples of a gender-specific approach to several common disease entities.

Video is available at https://vimeo.com/68387082.

Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA(amcgregor@lifespan.org)

Department of Emergency MedicineWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RIMoira Davenport, MD

Department of Emergency MedicineDrexel University College of Medicine

Philadelphia, PAJames Miner, MD

Department of Emergency MedicineHennepin County Medical Center

Minneapolis, MNTodd Siegel, MD

Department of Emergency MedicineWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RIBasmah Safdar, MD

Department of Emergency MedicineYale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Supervising Editor: John Burton, MD.

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2012.Sponsored by the Division of Women’s Health in Emergency Care at the Department of Emergency Medicine atWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

doi: 10.1111/acem.12242 PII ISSN 1069-6563583 1181© 2013 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ISSN 1069-6563 1181