Eitan Dickman, MD, MMM, FACEP, FAIUM

Dr. Eitan Dickman is the interim chair and medical director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Health, which includes three emergency departments in Brooklyn. He had held many roles at Maimonides, including ultrasound division and fellowship director, which became a nationally recognized emergency ultrasound program under his leadership. In addition to his administrative responsibilities managing a large tertiary emergency department, he remains a dedicated teacher and continues to be an active participant in medical student, resident, and fellow education. Dr. Dickman unfailingly supports the physicians, nurses, and staff of the emergency department. He has held several national leadership positions and has a long track record of research and scholarship in emergency medicine and emergency ultrasound.

Selected Publications:

Vaswani S, Kuhner C, Xu J, Dickman E, Becker K, Drapkin J, Turchiano M. “Establishing a rapid assessment service for patients with suspected malignancies for expedited outpatient management.” Am J Emerg Med. Epub May 8, 2023.

Rizkalla C, Arroyo A, Zerzan J, O’Keefe M, Okereke M, Dickman E, Drapkin J, Marshall J. “Urban Emergency Department Response to Measles Outbreak.” Ann Emerg Med. 2020 Jul; 76(1) 78-84.

Miller DL, Abo A, Abramowicz JS, Bigelow TA, Dalecki D, Dickman E, Donlon J, Harris G, Nomura J. “Diagnostic Ultrasound Safety Review for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Practitioners.” J Ultrasound Med. 2020 Jun; 39(6): 1069-1084.

Patel A, Levine M, Dickman E, Haines L, Homel P, Likourezos A, Pushkar I, Drapkin J, Arroyo A. “Does Orally-Administered Radiocontrast Impair Ultrasound Image Quality in Pediatric Patients?” West J Emerg Med. 2020 Feb 21; 21(2): 359-364.

Brazg J, Huang P, Weiner C, Singh G, Likourezos A, Salem L, Dickman E, et al. “Relocation of Blood Gas Laboratory to the Emergency Department Helps Decrease Lactic Acid Values.” Am J Emerg Med 2018 November; 36(11): 20-35-2037.

Dickman E, Terentiev V, Likourezos A, Derman A, and Haines L. “Extension of the Thoracic Spine Sign: A New Sonographic Marker of Pleural Effusion.” J Ultrasound Med. 2015 Sep; 34(9): 1555-61.

Brox WT, Roberts KC, Taksali S, Wright DG, Wixted JJ, Tubb CC, Patt JC, Templeton KJ, Dickman E, et al. “The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Evidence-Based Guideline on Management of Hip Fractures in the Elderly.” J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2015 Jul 15;97(14):1196-9.

Dickman E, Tessaro MO, Arroyo A, Haines LE, and Marshall JP. “Clinician-Performed Abdominal Sonography.” Eur J of Trauma Emerg Surg. 2015 Oct 41(5): 481-92.

Chou, Eric H., Chih-Hung Wang, Ralph Monfort, Antonios Likourezos, Jon Wolfshohl, Tsung-Chien Lu, Yu-Lin Hsieh, Lawrence Haines, Eitan Dickman, and Judy Lin. "Association of ultrasound-related interruption during cardiopulmonary resuscitation with adult cardiac arrest outcomes: A video-reviewed retrospective study." Resuscitation 149 (2020): 74-80.

Morrison, R. Sean, Eitan Dickman, Ula Hwang, Saadia Akhtar, Taja Ferguson, Jennifer Huang, Christina L. Jeng et al. "Regional nerve blocks improve pain and functional outcomes in hip fracture: a randomized controlled trial." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64, no. 12 (2016): 2433-2439.

Chou, Eric H., Eitan Dickman, Po-Yang Tsou, Mark Tessaro, Yang-Ming Tsai, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma, Chien-Chang Lee, and John Marshall. "Ultrasonography for confirmation of endotracheal tube placement: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Resuscitation 90 (2015): 97-103.

Tessaro, M. O., Salant, E. P., Arroyo, A. C., Haines, L. E., & Dickman, E. (2015). Tracheal rapid ultrasound saline test (TRUST) for confirming correct endotracheal tube depth in children. Resuscitation, 89, 8-12.