Brought to you by Dr. Michelle DiMare Also titled: US vs H&P Welcome to yet another exciting installment of our awesome ultrasound blog! For this post, “Name that Tune” rules apply and I challenge you to “name that…
EM-CCM Summary, 9/2/2014- The Sick Asthmatic. Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Abram The Case (As usual, this is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see): 25 year old…
This is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see 54 yo male, past medical history HTN, sent by his primary doctor to the ED for “rule…
Our excellent Critical Care Medicine Mini-Fellowship met last week for our monthly meeting where we actually had an inter-departmental and inter-disciplinary presence to discuss cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient. We reviewed three articles which I have summarized for you…
For those of you not there, you missed a doozy today. Besides some board review and M&M, we had a great senior lecture by Dr. Sadia Hussain, a EM-CCM lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Abram (the summary of which will be…
By Dr. Brenda Oiyemhonlan The last Health Policy Mini-Fellowship meeting discussed “safe harbors”, which can be defined as a set of clinical guidelines that define negligence and appropriate care in the ED. While safe harbors can protect ER docs…