Residency Life
Wednesday Conference February 19th – March 4th
We had some really amazing conferences for the past three weeks, including two grand rounds with amazing speakers (those will be posted separately).
Evidence-Based Medicine Pulmonology
Working up PE in the ED: Negative Likelihood Ratios and Fagan Nomograms
In our last two pieces on pulmonary embolism (PE), 1 and 2, we discussed five studies that attempted to describe the prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients presenting to the ED with syncope. In this post, we will review some common methodologies for working up PE in the ED. PE Read more…
Residency Life
Wednesday Conference 2/5/20 – Pulmonology
We had a great conference last week. Last week’s theme was pulmonology. We covered some great and important topics. We also had two of our fourth years, Dr. Murchison (one of our senior editors and frequent contributors) and Dr. Xu give amazing and inspiring senior lectures. See you at our Read more…
Cardiovascular Evidence-Based Medicine Pulmonology
PE Prevalence in ED Patients Presenting with Syncope (Part 2)
What is the prevalence of PE in patients who present to the ED with syncope? (This is part 2 of a two-part series.) In our last post, we discussed four studies that attempted to describe the prevalence of pulmonary embolism in ED patients who have experienced syncope. In this post, Read more…
Cardiovascular Evidence-Based Medicine Pulmonology
PE Prevalence in ED Patients Presenting with Syncope (Part 1)
What is the prevalence of PE in patients who present to the ED with syncope? References 1. Prandoni P, Lensing AWA, Prins MH, et al. Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism among Patients Hospitalized for Syncope. N Engl J Med [Internet]2016;375(16):1524–31. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1602172 2. Oqab Z, Ganshorn H, Sheldon R. Prevalence Read more…
Cardiovascular EM Principles Pulmonology Toxicology
Help! I Can’t Breathe! – Simple Asphyxiants
The Case Your notification phone rings, telling you the disaster response team is bringing in an unconscious 25-year-old male. They provide no other information. When he arrives, you get a full story. It turns out that earlier this morning, in a small town nearby, there was no radio response to Read more…
Cardiovascular EM-Critical Care Residency Life
Save of the Month: ST-Elevation in One Lead
Kudos to Dr. Beth Hanson. One of our recently graduated fourth-year residents, who will be an attending in Colorado, went above and beyond the call of duty just a few weeks ago. Dr. Aleksandr Gleyzer nominated Dr. Hanson for acknowledgment. It was a relatively busy CCT shift when Dr. Hanson Read more…
Residency Life
Save of the Month: Return to Sender, Anchoring/Premature Closure, PE, and Syncope
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Murchison for our save of the month! A 75-year-old man with history of HTN and BPH presented with a single episode of rectal bleeding. His exam was notable for hemorrhoids, and his hemoglobin was at baseline. Previously, the patient had been discharged home, but he passed Read more…
Residency Life
The Way to a Resident’s Heart is through Their Stomach
Note:This post on resident life is not a peer-reviewed article. Those that know me know I do a lot of cooking. It was actually one of the careers I was choosing between when I decided to leave engineering and go into medicine. So for me it is especially important to Read more…
Policy and Administration Trauma
Guns, Politics, and the Emergency Department
This article has been reposted from it’s original source, EM Resident, https://www.emra.org/emresident/article/gun-violence/ What is our role as physicians in confronting the intersection of politics and health? After the November 2018 workplace shooting and killing of one of our emergency physician colleagues,1 a Facebook group called EMDocs exploded in controversy over a discussion Read more…