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Grand Rounds 5.8.24

Taming the SRU

r1 clinical knowledge - r4 capstone - research grand rounds - the art of em - Community corner - PEM Lecture r1 Clinical knowledge: transplant complications WITH dr. gabor Time-sensitive peri-transplant emergencies: Bleeding fistula- stop the bleed. Flood syndrome- start fluids, give antibiotics, consult surgery. Ways to get involved?

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.31.24

Taming the SRU

The largest retrospective cohort study to date (Beyde et al.) shows that most will improve with empiric antibiotics.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Thieme. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. Indian J Burns 2012;20:7-10 Transfusion ten commandments U.K. The Ten Commandments of Wound Management Ernst, A., Herzog, M., & Seidl, R. Head and Neck Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Memon, A., & Kaliff, J.

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Emergency Physician Provides HIV and Hepatitis C Testing, Counseling to Underserved Communities

ACEP Now

Today Dr. Calderon is known for her research into HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, but she didn’t start off on an academic track. She was 10 years into being an attending physician when she realized that to make an impact on the problems she was seeing in her ED, she would need a better understanding of how to do research. “I

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

PEMBlog

It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children. Leonard JR, Jaffe DM, Kuppermann N, Olsen CS, Leonard JC; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Cervical Spine Study Group.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

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Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED

EMDocs

21 Case: A 40-year-old male presents to the ED with a burning epigastric pain that has been worsening over the past week. Pain can be gnawing, aching, burning, and located in the upper abdomen. Neuropathic pain: redefinition and a grading system for clinical and research purposes. Pain can be improved or exacerbated with meals.