Advanced Medical Reviews
JUNE 16, 2021
Most businesses have established processes and procedures to ensure employees follow the correct sequence of steps that results in high-quality products or services. Providers of independent medical reviews (IMRs) are no different.
Emergency Medicine Cases
JUNE 15, 2021
The differential for T-wave INVERSION includes: Incorrect lead placement, No bundle (RBBB, LBBB), Ventricular hypertrophy (LVH, RVH), Embolism, Reciprocal/refractory/reperfused occlusion MI, Sudden death (ARVD), Iatrogenic (digoxin), Obtunded (eg SAH), and Normal variant. Jesse McLaren runs through 10 cases of patients who present to the ED who have T-wave inversions on their ECGs.
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EM Updates
JUNE 15, 2021
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is Brooklyn’s largest hospital, an academic quaternary care center with, in normal times, 711 total beds, 66 intensive care beds, and an Emergency Department that treats approximately 120,000 patients per year. On March 9, the first patient with a novel coronavirus infection was admitted to MMC. At its peak, on April 9, there were 471 patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 admitted to the hospital, with 139 patients designated to be occupying a critical car
Emergency Medicine Ireland
JUNE 14, 2021
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh dedicates an entire chapter, number 88 to CBRN issues. While not commonly seen you can rest assured that critical care will be expected to turn up and manage these. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh dedicates an entire chapter, number 88 to CBRN issues.
JournalFeed
JUNE 12, 2021
It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of Jun 7-11, 2021. We cover overuse of antibiotics for ED sepsis alerts, HEART or EDACS with hs-cTn 0-1 hour rule outs, ED-AWARENESS - paralysis awareness after RSI, thoracentesis or chest tubes in coagulopathic patients, and a review on managing the difficult airway.
Emergency Medicine Cases
JUNE 15, 2021
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Anand Swaminathan on vasopressor failure, Brit Long and Michael Gottlieb on aspleic considerations, Sarah Reid on a bronchiolitis update and evolving patterns in the COVID era, Hans Rosenberg and Lindsay Cheskes on ICD electrical storm, Justin Morgenstern on night shift tips. The post EM Quick Hits 29 Vasopressor Failure, Asplenic Considerations, Bronchiolitis Update, ICD Electrical Storm, Night Shift Tips appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
EMergucate
JUNE 16, 2021
You’re reviewing a 44 year old obese patient whose wife has noticed that he is breathing abnormally at night time.
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CasesBlog
JUNE 17, 2021
Quest Labs is actively advertising on Google with "No Doctor Visit Required - Order Your Own Quest® Lab Test". Anyone can order their own lab test at Quest and LabCorp, including test for COVID antibodies, HIV, etc: [link] [link] This is not new, it but it is still not widely utilized in clinical practice. The likely reason is that the cost of the tests must be paid out of pocket as most insurers do not cover it.
ER Nurses
JUNE 16, 2021
As the slow incremental reforms in the American healthcare system amble forward, within the change lies great opportunity. In seeking to avert the collision course of an aging chronically ill population with a financial burden to maintain the current system, policy makers have had to reflect and discover a hitherto unrealized fact: nurses are the backbone of the health care system.
EMergucate
JUNE 13, 2021
The chest x-ray (AP x-ray done in resus area) shows a widened mediastinum with prominent aortic knuckle.
University of Maryland CC Project
JUNE 14, 2021
Dr. Jayshil Patel, MD, Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses nutrition therapy in critical illness. Dr. Jayshil Patel, MD, Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses nutrition therapy in critical illness.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JUNE 12, 2021
Date: June 11th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dennis Ren is a paediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Reference: McLaren SH, et al. Invasive bacterial infections in afebrile infants diagnosed with acute otitis media. Pediatrics 2021 Case: You are working with a medical student at the emergency department when a 2-month-old boy is […] The post SGEM#334: In My Life there’s been Earache and Pain I don’t know if it’s IBI again – in an Afebrile Infant with A
EMergucate
JUNE 18, 2021
33 y/o female presented with 6 hours history of palpitations and dyspnea. She denied any chest pain.
EMergucate
JUNE 13, 2021
The following chest x-ray is from an 18-year old with sudden onset of dyspnoea. What can be seen?
EMergucate
JUNE 14, 2021
Question 1: PH = 7.82 that is life threatening alkalemia PaCO2 is 28.7, that is low (<40), so we have respiratory alkalosis. this can be acute or chronic (not clear from the history).
EMergucate
JUNE 15, 2021
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