EM PGY1 with about 4+ months in the ER so far this year. My procedure log thus far:
20-25 central lines (I've supervised my senior resident in the MICU on overnights when we needed to place a line)
30+ intubations (~6 ER intubations, rest anesthesia month)
2 arthrocenteses (big toe and knee! They're cool!)
15-20 LPs
1 chest tube (done during CCU month actually, we get most of these during our trauma month I think)
12 Conscious sedations
4-5 paracentesis (all but 1 diagnostic instead of therapeutic)
It seems like PG2/3s in my program have done a few transvenous pacing wires as well in the ER while the PGY1s, based on our shifts (time, location) don't get yet.
I don't bother logging:
I+Ds, suturing, splinting, dislocation reductions because I'm doing them almost every shift. I don't know if you count these as "procedures"
In the ER, the only time I can remember us "consulting" a service for a procedure was a fluoro-guided LP on this crazy morbid obese lady with scoliosis. Seriously, I tried (with the attending wishing me luck), then my attending tried with no luck. That and fracture reductions which get done by the ER resident on the ortho month anyway. Oh, and the obnoxious person who requests plastic surgery to sew up the lack on his forearm from time to time
I'm still waiting to do my first brain transplant in the ER, that's a procedure I haven't gotten yet and I could see us consulting out for.
I think your "sources" may have an axe to grind against EM. Seriously, as an intern I can guarantee that I'm more comfortable with procedures than interns in virtually any other residency in my hospital (except maybe surgical interns with chest tubes; and upper level anesthesia residents with difficult intubations).