During a quick visit to New York, I recorded an episode on my good and brilliant friend’s podcast. Dr. Grossman created this podcast to showcase cases where the final diagnosis often is not what you’d think based on the initial chief complaint. Very well done! My full episode here:…
Emergency medicine requires flexibility as we work irregular shifts, nights, weekends, and holidays. Unlike the general populace, we face the unique challenge of seeking childcare options that can adapt to unpredictable and often nontraditional work hours, requiring creative solutions or adjustments to the typical childcare options. Here are some to consider… Full Article linked below.…
This is a copy of the email I sent out to several friends who were getting married and had asked what credit cards my wife and I had opened. Details of the offers and benefits are only as up-to-date as the date of this post.
As residents eager to be trained, we are often eager... overeager for procedures. However, one rule that I keep at the forefront of my mind is this: Don’t put holes in people unless you absolutely have to.
Six EM docs standing in the resuscitation bay staring at an EKG hotly debating the correct interpretation of the patient’s EKG after the patient becomes acutely tachycardic.
It's that time of year again. "Are you gonna run for chief?" After you get asked for the ninth time, you start to panic a little. You've debated with yourself, drafted a pros and cons list, yet feel just as lost as when you started. The time is ticking for you to make a decision. Well, are you going to do it?
Or alternatively, a pearl of the day to (maybe) clear up some confusion and take another look at the commonly asked question of -- can we age-adjust the d-dimer we use at our institution?
On this next episode of "useful things that RN Minh taught me", let's go over some neat tricks to effectively using our patient monitors!
Anyways as many of our residents know, central lines placed in the emergency department are frequently changed shortly after transfer to the ICU out of concern that lines were not placed under sterile technique. Not an ideal situation, as repeat catheter placement results in additional risk and discomfort to the patient.
One question that has been visited before, but came up again on recent shifts -- the non-crashing angioedema patient i.e. they do not require intubation. Specifically, the question that came up was eloquently phrased as “Wait, TXA? FFP? Why do we do that again?” Today we’ll touch on angioedema in general but focus on the treatment of bradykinin-mediated angioedema.
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