Focus areas
Research in Mayo Clinic's Division of Emergency Medicine Research involves a comprehensive assessment of topics. Areas of active research focus include:
- Allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.
- Angioedema.
- Battlefield (military) medicine.
- Caring for patients with dementia and cognitive decline.
- Drone use in austere medical environments.
- Emergency department operations.
- Emergency ultrasound applications.
- Enhancing the understanding of barriers to providing the best care for all patients.
- Genitourinary infections.
- Geriatric research.
- Health policy.
- Healthcare delivery.
- Implementation science.
- Managing bone fractures and compartment syndrome.
- Medical-legal issues.
- Optimizing advanced airway management.
- Optimizing opioid use for acute pain management.
- Optimizing pneumonia care through pragmatic clinical trials.
- Optimizing sepsis treatment.
- Participating in national data registries.
- Partnering in international research.
- Pragmatic clinical trials.
- Prehospital emergency care.
- Preventing and mitigating agitation and violence in healthcare.
- Quality improvement.
- Recognizing and managing geriatric clinical syndromes and delirium.
- Shared decision-making.
- Simulation.
- Sports medicine.
- Using artificial intelligence (AI) to augment patient care.
- Using droperidol for acute pain management.
- Using physical therapy in the emergency department.
- Using technology to engage with patients.