A 54-year-old male with history of alcohol abuse presents with right forearm pain and swelling following a fall two days ago. The pain is constant, sharp, “radio buzzing”, and 10/10. He also reports redness, swelling, and “feels cold”. He denies fevers, LOC, CP, SOB, weakness/numbness. Initial VS: HR 120/min, RR 20/min, Read more…
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…
It’s January in the pediatric emergency department, and you are on your guard. You have vowed to protect yourself against all variety of evil cold viruses sneakily residing in cute, sniffly children, aiming straight for your respiratory tract. You go down the list of chief complaints successfully dodging all the Read more…
Reviewed By Dr. Sage Wiener It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the usual crowd shuffles in, Stacey is in the stretcher sitting next to you on this night in November. She’s a 28-year-old woman, presenting to the Emergency Department complaining of three days of headache, dizziness, nausea, and difficulty Read more…
February Journal Club: This month we ate tacos in Fort Green and met to discuss Patterson et al’s paper on in-situ Simulation. This article was selected mainly to help to introduce the topic of in-situ simulation to the Kings County/SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine residency, as in-situ simulation will be introduced Read more…
As you sit down at your workstation to finally catch up on some of those notes you’ve been putting off until the end of your shift, one of the nurses comes to notify you… “You remember that patient in room 4 with the leg pain? This is her urine…” You Read more…
By Angela Cai, Rushabh Shah, Gururaj Shan As she walked out of her last shift at Kings County Hospital, many of her colleagues and trainees had no idea she was leaving. Even fewer knew the incredible journey she had been on over the last few years which culminated in her Read more…
You are just getting over your third viral illness this winter. Your tummy will never forget this one, but on the bright side you lost 5 pounds nibbling on saltine crackers for a week. You drink some coffee and coconut water in a hurry and arrive energized to your shift Read more…
Congratulations to Dr. Noah Berland, aka Julia Man-Child, for this month’s Save of the Month. Dr. Berland was in Fast Track getting peppered with Shetty trivia when a middle-aged man came in complaining of headache and pain in his right leg after having what appeared to be minor trauma a Read more…
With the increase in interest and participation in hospital administration, the mini-fellowship held an alumni mixer. Recent and older alums who have found their way into an administrative role shared their experiences with the current residents of County. The representative alumni offered a diverse background from which they Read more…