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As an emergency medicine specialist, you know how difficult it is to keep up to date in this fast-paced area of medicine. Key articles that can affect your day-to-day practice appear not only in the traditional emergency medicine journals, but also in almost every major medical periodical.

For any one individual to systematically review this vast array of medical literature is impossible -- impossible, that is, unless you're an Emergency Medical Abstracts subscriber. As a subscriber, every month you'll receive...

A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF EMERGENCY
MEDICINE ARTICLES

Each month the Emergency Medical Abstracts team surveys over 600 journals and provides you with a detailed listing of every article found relevant to emergency medicine and acute care. This list can be quickly and easily scanned or computer-searched for articles in which you may have a particular interest.

DETAILED, FACT-FILLED ABSTRACTS CONCERNING KEY EM PAPERS

From this list of 400-600 emergency medicine citations, approximately 40 of the articles felt by our Medical Editors to be the most important, most timely and most useful are chosen to be abstracted. The articles are selected only from authoritative, major journals and the abstracts are carefully written emphasizing the information most applicable to your practice. The abstracts are available on study cards and via the internet.

EXPANDED -- INTERNET ACCESS TO
THE ARTICLES AND THEIR AUTHORS

Each abstract provides information regarding the availability of free reprints, the author's e-mail address and, now, the PubMed article ID number along with a link to facilitate obtaining the original articles.

LONGER -- NOW A TWO-HOUR REVIEW OF THE ABSTRACTS WITH COMMENTARY

To reinforce and concisely summarize the information in the abstracts, and to allow for editorial commentary, we've engaged some of the brightest, articulate and opinionated authorities in Emergency Medicine -- Jerry Hoffman, Rick Bukata, Billy Mallon, Diane Birnbaumer, Stuart Swadron and others -- to put the information in the abstracts into context and provide you with bottom-line take-home points that you can incorporate into your practice. You can access the commentary via video and audio on the internet or via CD and key word search the abstracts on the internet.

NEW -- INTERVIEWS WITH AUTHORS

On articles of particular interest you'll hear interviews directly with the authors of the papers. You will get their insights and commentary regarding the contribution of their paper to the understanding of key issues in Emergency Medicine.

COMPREHENSIVE MONTHLY ESSAYS

Each month you'll also receive a four-page "Emergency Medicine & Acute Care Essay." These concise, fact-filled, essays provide authoritative reviews on specific topics relevant to emergency care and emphasize the latest developments in assessment and treatment. Additional topics include health care systems issues, ED operations and healthcare policy and all essays are internet searchable and written by a variety of top authors.

BONUS 30-MINUTE LECTURE FROM THE EMA COURSES

With each issue you'll also receive a 30-minute evidence-based audio presentation from a recent EMA course. These courses, which have been attended by over 30,000 emergency physicians, focus on the new and controversial and integrate the current literature along with the clinical expertise of the faculty. The lectures are accompanied by a downloadable PDF containing the pertinent chapter from the course manual.

NOW INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE -- OPTIONAL 48-HOUR CME PROGRAM

To provide recognition for the time and effort involved in reviewing the abstracts and essays, and for the information you will have gained, a no-cost CME program is provided. The program is sponsored by the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and The Center for Medical Education, Inc., and jointly sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Now you can receive AMA/ACEP Category I/AAFP Prescribed credit in the comfort of your home or office while keeping up-to-date with the latest information in emergency and acute care medicine.

SPECIAL BONUS -- COMPLETE INTERNET ACCESS TO THE FULL EMA DATABASE AVAILABLE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE

Subscribers to all versions of Emergency Medical Abstracts now have internet access to the complete EMA database dating back to 1977, providing the ability to rapidly retrieve and review more than 200,000 non-abstracted citations, 16,000 abstracts and over 250 essays.