Author: Ross Donaldson

An analysis of internet popularity finds WikEM to be one of the Top 10 most popular emergency medicine websites in 2014 (http://www.xn--aciltp-t9a.com/best-of-2014-emergency-website).  Thank you to everyone who has helped contribute to this great resource and helped make free and open access to medical knowledge possible!… Read more

Check out WikEM’s new Broselow-type weight-based dosing feature under “Critical care quick reference” in the app (or, on the web at http://www.wikem.org/wiki/Critical_care_quick_reference).

Now you’ll always have equipment sizes and medication doses immediately available to you during codes or other emergencies!

-OpenEM Foundation… Read more

As we near the end of our first year as a formal entity, OpenEM Foundation, the overarching nonprofit entity supporting WikEM, would like to thank its generous 2014 donors for their support.

All proceeds are used for hosting costs, website support, and mobile development.  Help make WikEM better!  Please consider joining them and donate at: http://www.wikem.org/wiki/Donate.

2014 Donors

• Barbara Ryan (Seattle, WA)
• Elaine Beever (British Columbia)
• Evan Suzuki (Philadelphia, PA)
• Gaurav Tyagi (Hoboken, NJ)
• George Verghese (Solihull, West Midlands)
• Ilker Akba (Kahramanmaras, Turkey)
• John Hipskind (Visalia, CA)
• John Thompson (Walnut, CA)
• Jung Kim (East Setauket, NY)
• Karl Bandyan (Van Nuys, CA)
• Maxim Ben Yakov (Toronto, Ontario)
• Nicholas Abraham (Los Angeles, CA)
• Rebecca Thilo (Long Beach,

We are happy to announce WikEM’s first annual appreciation awards for the 2013-2014 academic year!  We are truly grateful for all of the clinicians who donate their time to making WikEM the best bedside emergency medicine resource, which allows us to make this life-saving information readily available to the medical community regardless of location.

And the awards go to…

Outstanding Editor Award

Ross Donaldson
Daniel Ostermayer
Marissa Camilon
Joe Lex
Manuel Celedon
Manpreet Singh
Jonathan Osgood
Allen Bookatz
Joel Clinton Miller
Silas Chiu

Outstanding Contributor Award

Bobak Zonnoor
Matthew Hankerson
James Cunningham
Alex Linker
Peter Morris
Jordan Swartz
Hamid Nazir
Matthew Davey
Abdalmohsen Ababtain
Ashley Bean… Read more

WikEM was happy to recently be named one of the top “100 helpful trauma sites to bookmark” by ParamedicToRN.org (www.paramedictorn.org/trauma-care.html). That’s right, many people use our WikEM app, but we also have a robust website with added features at www.WikEM.org. Check it out!… Read more

WikEM is happy to be included in a recently published compilation of “Apps Every Nurse Should Be Using” http://onlinelpntorn.org/terrific-nurse-apps/.  Thanks to all of our volunteer contributors for helping creating a tool that continues to help nurses and other allied health personnel care for their patients!… Read more

WikEM is excited to announce the launch of its new blog to keep emergency medicine practitioners updated about WikEM current activities.

For those of you not familiar with its history, WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki is a global community of medical practitioners that via wiki-software features continually updated emergency medicine information. Its popular point-of-care phone application, which is a rapid reference for key emergency medicine content, has been downloaded by tens-of-thousands of users worldwide. WikEM is intended for clinicians only and not directly for patients.

WikEM first started as a series of notes that were hand passed (and then “beamed” on PDAs) from resident to resident at the Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program.  This… Read more