For those of you not in conference last Wednesday, there was a brief review of Rhabdo that listed bicarb as a potential treatment. Feeling like the junior that I was (but of course am no longer), I was hesitant to speak and,…
Welcome to the first edition of the California version of Staten Island Corner. It’ll be similar to the old Staten Island Corner but with more smiles and vegetables. I think we’ve all been in the following situation: You’re in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…