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…
At the last WM meeting, we discussed black widow spider bites. Carl was kind enough to pull a great paper looking at the symptoms observed by a group that saw at 136 such envenomations. The paper can be found here:…
ED Critical Care Conference: Sept 2013 The Curious Case of AMS with an (initially) Normal CT Head presented by Dr. Andy Grock Case: 24 yo M, no pmhx presents AMS s/p assault. MRI shows Diffuse Axonal Injury. TBI Discussion Severity…
No, it’s not. But some trauma consultants may feel that way. This month’s journal club will feature the NEXUS Chest criteria for blunt thoracic trauma. Is CXR and/or CT Chest always indicated in the blunt trauma patient? Is there a…
During a resident supervisor shift this summer a brand new intern asked me how do you know that a patient has low risk chest pain and when do we send them home? This was followed by a third year that…
It’s a busy shift in good old A pod. A nurse comes up to you with a bag of blood tubes for a vomiting patient and asks if you want to shotgun labs and give some anti-emetics. You happily oblige,…