American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Abbreviation | AAEM |
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Formation | 1993 |
Headquarters | Milwaukee, WI |
Region | United States of America |
Membership | 8,000+ |
President | Jonathan Jones, MD FAAEM |
Main organ | Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Affiliations | AAEM Resident and Student Association |
Website | aaem |
The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) is a nonprofit professional medical association of emergency medicine physicians. It was formed in 1993, and is based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
AAEM was established promote fair and equitable practice environments necessary to allow emergency physicians to deliver the highest quality of patient care.
AAEM works cooperatively alongside the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians when the interests of emergency medicine call for a united front. Active membership is open to all physicians who have completed an emergency medicine residency approved by either the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association. The association is also affiliated with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine/Resident and Student Association.
Fellows use the post-nominal letters FAAEM.
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- Emergency department
- Emergency medical services
- Emergency nursing
- Emergency psychiatry
- Golden hour
- Medical emergency
- International emergency medicine
- Pediatric emergency medicine
- Pre-hospital emergency medicine
- Major trauma
- Trauma center
- Triage
- Bag valve mask (BVM)
- Chest tube
- Defibrillation (AED
- ICD)
- Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
- Intraosseous infusion (IO)
- Intravenous therapy (IV)
- Tracheal intubation
- Laryngeal tube
- Combitube
- Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)
- Oropharyngeal airway (OPA)
- Pocket mask
- International Federation for Emergency Medicine (International Conference on Emergency Medicine)
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
- Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- European Society for Emergency Medicine
- Asian Society for Emergency Medicine
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- First aid
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- Basic life support (BLS)
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
- Advanced trauma life support (ATLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns (ACoRN)
- Pediatric basic life support (PBLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)
- Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP)
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