PEER-REVIEWED LECTURE SERIES (PERLS)

Gender-specific Emergency Care: Part Two

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).This part includes substance abuse, trauma, pulmonary, and toxicology. Part 1 reviews cardiovascular, neurology,sports medicine, and pain.

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/68387084.

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

Department of Emergency MedicineWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RIEsther K. Choo, MD MPH

Department of Emergency MedicineWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RIStacey Poznanski, DO

Department of Emergency MedicineWright State University School of Medicine

Dayton, OHRobert G. Hendrickson, MD

Department of Emergency MedicineOregon Health & Science University

Portland, ORMarna Rayl Greenberg, DO, MPH

Department of Emergency MedicineLehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network

Allentown, PA

Supervising Editor: John H. 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.

1182 PII ISSN 1069-6563583 doi: 10.1111/acem.12240ISSN 1069-6563 © 2013 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine