This month in the wilderness medicine group meeting we spoke about using therapeutic plasma exchange to treat refractory systemic loxoscelism after a brown recluse spider envenomation. The paper that describes that treatment modality can be found here: Brown recluse envenomation-therapeutic…
The EKG is an integral diagnostic tool in EM let alone the whole of medicine. It is a rapid, reliable and cost-effective method to aid in the diagnosis of cardiac pathology including ischemic and arrhythmic events. So how did it…
http://zimmerfidget.com/MedEd/Suturing/ Four ultra-short videos on how to suture. Videos on: simple interrupted, figure of 8, horizontal mattress, vertical mattress.
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=3168 A 2 year-old boy presents to your ED with a history of 7 days of tactile temperatures and a rash. The rash started on day 3 of the fever and now has spread to the whole…
Hello Blog nation! Please enjoy this month’s EKG blog post! Also, seniors, please see below for a hint, just for you ;). Here is the case: 58 yo M with h/o mitral valve prolapse p/w acutely worsening palpitations, dyspnea on…
Great discussion on this month’s COtM, and with that comes our first winner of the academic year. Dr. Kopping, in all his chiefdom, gets the spoils. Great job! See original case here: CotM 1 Quick recap: 26 y/o M identifies as…