Welcome to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. The motivation for this comes from a common question that I am sure all of you have had at one point or another. The other day during a shift there was…
Staten Island Corner: VBG for DKA?
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Staten Island Corner: Coumadin Toxicity!
Welcome everybody to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. I recently had a case that we see on a regular basis in the ED that is the motivation for this month’s topic. Supratherapeutic INR is something we see all…
Staten Island Corner: Video vs. Direct Laryngoscopy
Welcome to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. The subject of this month’s edition comes from a recent topic on EMRAP. There was an interview with Dr. Ron Walls, who is a well known Emergency Medicine Physician and nationally…
Staten Island Corner: Pre-Hospital Endotracheal Intubation?
Welcome to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. I was recently on EMS rotation so the inspiration for this month’s edition comes from an EMS topic. I decided to look into the debate of whether endotracheal intubation is the…
Staten Island Corner: The Intubated Asthmatic
Welcome back to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. I decided to review the literature on the proper initial management of intubated asthmatic patients. Although asthma is a very common disease and something that we deal with on a…
Staten Island Corner: Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Welcome to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. The inspiration for this month’s entry was a “disagreement” that I was involved with on a pediatric shift. We had an 18 year old patient with presumed hyperemesis gravidarum. After the…
Staten Island Corner: Asthma: Enough with the Prednisone, make it Dex…
WELCOME to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. For this month we have a guest appearance from the Staten Island Chief himself Dr. Caputo. …So without further adieu please read the following written by Billy: Asthma is one…
Staten Island Corner: Septic Joint
Welcome back to this month’s Staten Island Corner. Please come up with ideas or topics that you are interested in and I will be happy to try to find some useful information and articles on the topic. I think we…