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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

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Examples would be as below: The “walking wounded” triage heuristic in mass casualty incidents—patient able to walk to you can be initially triaged as “green” or “minimal”. A testicular ultrasound confirmed restored blood flow. They are derived from gestalt to help translate practice patterns into concrete methods.

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Residency Spotlight: Olwens Community College Center for Emergency Preparedness

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In addition to robust simulation and ultrasound experiences, our program has optional concentrations for pre-hospital/EMS, event medicine, and wilderness medicine. While being the tertiary care center of the Mercy system in northwest Ohio, St.