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AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Triage in the ED: A 2026 Field Report

May 2, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

AI triage in the ED works for throughput in 2026 but fails on rare high-acuity cases. Three safeguards every department needs.

Clinical AI

Sepsis AI Alerts in Emergency Medicine: When Early Warning Helps and When It Distracts

May 1, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical physician perspective on sepsis AI alerts in emergency medicine, including where early-warning support helps, where alerting fails, and how to validate signal quality.

Medicolegal

Emergency Physician AI Liability: How to Review, Document, and Escalate Safely

April 29, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical emergency medicine guide to AI liability, including physician oversight, documentation expectations, escalation rules, and safer review habits when using AI tools.

AI in Emergency Medicine

Your Rural ED Wasn't in the AI Pilot

April 28, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

Most clinical AI tools were built for urban hospitals with broadband, deep IT teams, and modern EHRs. Rural EDs operate in a different reality.

General

Your Pediatric AI Tool Was Trained on Adults

April 22, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

Most AI diagnostic tools in the ED were built on adult data. Pediatric patients present differently, and those gaps create real clinical risk.

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Integration in the ED: An Ops Playbook for EM Physicians

April 13, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Medically reviewed and authored by Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP | Updated April 2026 | 20 min read Emergency departments using AI ambient scribes recover

AI in Emergency Medicine

ED Observation Units: The Physician Guide to Reducing Admits and Readmissions

April 9, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Your emergency department just admitted a 45-year-old woman with atypical chest pain, a normal ECG, and a first troponin of less than the 99th percentile.

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Won’t Fix Your Boarding Crisis

April 8, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Every hospital executive who has watched an emergency department collapse under the weight of boarded patients has heard the same pitch from at least one v

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI in Emergency Medicine: Your Triage Is Already Obsolete

April 7, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Discover how AI is transforming emergency medicine triage. Dr. Shermer shares 25 years of EM insights on becoming AI bulletproof. Start today. It is 0300

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Literacy in Emergency Medicine: What You Need to Know

April 4, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Medically reviewed and authored by Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP | Updated April 2026 | 18 min read  Emergency physicians using AI tools without understa

AI in Emergency Medicine

When to Override the AI: A Decision Framework for Physicians

April 4, 2026 · Chester Shermer

The decision, and it's timing, to override an AI recommendation in emergency medicine is a clinical judgment call that belongs exclusively to the treating

AI Risk & Governance

AI Bias in Pain Management Is an ED Problem

March 29, 2026 · Chester Shermer

A 2024 study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that AI chatbots—including GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Pro—consistently underassessed pain in Bl