47 years old male with no PMH presents with one day of severe epigastric pain. States that he had this type of pain before, and his PMD prescribed him “some pills” that helped with the pain. But he no longer…
XRay Vision: So Much Abdominal Pain
Our Next Lovely Journal Club
Hello Hard-Working Residents, On behalf of Dr. Richardson, Dr. Mehta, and Dr. Aluisio, I am happy to provide the next Journal Club Article – a prospective RCT of epinephrine versus no epinephrine in patients that received ACLS. Will it change…
Wednesday Wrap-up: 8/13/2014
Permissive Hypoventilation… In Trauma?
Over the last decade or two, we have all seen, read, and are hopefully now doing some interesting stuff with the A in the ABC’s. Here, we discuss three interesting topics involving ventilating critically ill patients using less breaths…sometimes way…
7/30/14 Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Presented by Dr. Nataisia Terry Summary by Dr. Kaycie Corburn The Case: 72 yo M PMH HTN and GERD presents to the ED with 1d h/o difficulty urinating and back pain. Basic labs showed thrombocytopenia. Non contrast CT showed bony…
Save of the Month! July 2014
Welcome to Save of the Month! where each month we recognize a resident who went above and beyond to make a great save in the ED. Nominations are solicited from the faculty each block and we pick one resident for recognition…