ANSWER The first thing to note with this EKG is the 3rd degree heart block. As you can see, there is no clear associated between the P waves and the QRS. A good way to do this in practice is…
Wednesday Wrap-Up
11/14 Conference 8-845 Topic Review Dr. Cioe 845-910 Clinical Pearl Drs. Smith and Bradby 910-955 EBM …
Chest Tubes in the Trauma Bay
(A Review on Chest Tubes in the Trauma Patient ) Indications for Chest Tube Placement in Trauma Patients Pneumothorax (simple, tension) Hemothorax Esophageal rupture with gastric leak into pleural space Traumatic arrest (bilateral chest tubes) Quick Caveat: Detecting a traumatic pneumothorax…
Save of the Month! October 2012
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…
Wednesday Wrap-up: 10/24/2012
We’re back with another edition of Wednesday Wrap-up after a brief hiatus! During today’s Peds M+M conference, there was a somewhat heated discussion about using ultrasound to evaluate abdominal pain and specifically to evaluate for appendicitis. I don’t want to…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: Teaching Files
If you have as much of a white cloud in CCT as I do.. you often wonder how to possible entertain all the medical students whom seem to flock towards CCT? In fact, I have had to often juggle three…