Category: Morning Report

Morning Report: 8/5/2014

Dr. Berzon presents some airway pearls for today’s Morning Report!   Airway Pearls   Rotate on Anesthesia as a senior, you will learn things that will make you a better intubator. As a junior, you just wanna shove that tube through…

Morning Report: 7/31/2014

Today’s Morning Report is presented by Dr. Youn!   OPEN FRACTURES   Definition: any fx that communicates with an overlying disruption of skin and soft tissues Initial assessment: still the ABCs (including pulses, hemorrhage control) Key history: mechanism, time course…

Morning Report: 7/29/2014

Thanks to Dr. Freedman for today’s Morning Report!   Digoxin Toxicity Background: Naturally occurring chemical compounds Na+/ATPase Channel blockers Prone to poisoning Large volume of distribution Long half-life, ~36 hours Narrow therapeutic window, 0.6 – 1.3 ng/mL Digoxin: An Old…

Morning Report: 6/27/2014

Today’s Morning Report is presented by Dr. Shin!   Eye Foreign Body Removal   Immediately refer to an ophthalmologist in case of the following: o      Hyphema o      Diffuse corneal damage (focal or diffuse opacity) o      Scleral or corneal laceration o     …

Morning Report: 6/24/2014

Thanks to Dr. McMillan for today’s Morning Report!   Traumatic Brain Injury – American Association of Neurological Surgeons Guidelines   Case#1: A 45 year-old man helmeted motorcyclist struck by van, negative loss of consciousness, and currently GCS 15 and appropriate but…

Morning Report: 6/19/2014

Here’s Dr. Alsup with today’s Morning Report!   ETCO2 – Capnography   Technology -Infrared spectroscopy, co2 absorbs specific wavelength -Micro sampling vs in line spectroscopy   Physiology -Aerobic cell metabolism produces co2 -CO2 diffused easily across alveoli and exhaled -CO2…