Emergency Medicine Resident at Kings County Hospital / SUNY Downstate
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This month’s excellent save goes to… Dr. Steven Greenstein! Dr. Greenstein was working during a particularly busy shift in the Critical Care / Trauma area when EMS brought in a patient with a history of prostate cancer and a chief complaint of shortness of breath. Triage vital signs were notable Read more…
By Surriya Ahmad and Kylie Birnbaum It’s a busy night in the Springfield ED. You’ve just treated Lisa for a pneumothorax after she played her sax too hard, and you’ve treated her brother Bart for a laceration from skating too hard. You also treated Mr. Burns for narcissistic personality disorder! Read more…
Wrap up of our conference day focused on pediatrics and environmental emergencies.
Welcome to Wednesday Wrap Up! Here is a summary of what we learned in conference today:
Case: 44 year-old female gets wheeled into the critical care area in respiratory distress. Through gasping breaths of inspiratory stridor, she says this started one hour ago while at home, mentioning she was getting “aggravated” with her husband. Her husband endorses that this has happened before in similar situations. She Read more…
It’s a beautiful day outside, and the pediatric ED is packed with super cute, snot-nosed children. While you are busy at work, you are happy that all of these kiddos are so adorable. You are wondering if your shift can get any cuter, when a 17 year-old patient with known Read more…
Listen up, Preppy. It’s 1990 and Bayside High is where it’s at. Mr. Belding may be breathing down your back, but you have Zack Morris and the gang to kick it with. Surely you remember Zack’s state-of-the-art, cooler-than-school cordless phone, right? Well, with all of the Saved By the Bell Read more…
You’re at a Taylor Swift concert and Tay Tay is killing it – the costumes, the dances, and the oh-so-catchy pop singles. Taylor is about to start performing your favorite Taylor Swift single “Shake It Off”. The performance starts off with a wicked light show. Everyone’s into it. One audience Read more…
It’s another sweltering summer day down South. Willie Nelson is trying to stay cool before his big show, doing what he does best–drinking iced tea. (You thought I was going to say something else, didn’t you?) He begins to feel severe flank pain, writhing and sweating from the pain and summer Read more…
It’s a perfect sunny day in San Diego, and Ron Burgundy is about to broadcast another episode of his highest rated (local) news show. Little does the public know that Ron suffers from hydrocephalus and has a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt. While on air, he becomes altered, sleepy, and garbles his speech Read more…