Preface: I write this piece humbly from my own perspective, acknowledging that this is not the “answer” as to how to become an effective learner, but just what I have found to be effective for me. There are many different learning styles, and my style may not fit all or Read more…
As some of you may have heard, COVID-19 is a thing. We’ve covered it in-depth, here. Fortunately, there’s a cure. President Trump touted it himself and therefore it must be true. So good – so, so good that this will all be over by Easter. Could this be true? Let’s Read more…
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…
By Yanmen Yang, PharmD What is tranexamic acid? Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic agent approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December 1996 as an intravenous injection to reduce hemorrhage during tooth extractions and as an oral tablet in November 2009 for heavy menstrual cycles.1,2 Since then, Read more…
I had wanted to write on the utility and interpretation of serial CBCs. I do it all the time and I’m sure my practice is not well-informed. However, it’s doing. It’s active. And we love doing. (Check out Drs Sinert and Zehtabchi’s paper1) Speaking about doing, yesterday I was Read more…
Bad things happen. Trauma and tragic illnesses take the young and old. The world is not kind or just. And we, emergency docs, work at the intersection of daily life and tragedy. We strive to mitigate illness and injury. But often we can’t. We’ve all seen tragedies and monsters. And Read more…
Welcome back to this month’s edition of Staten Island Corner. I decided to review the literature on the proper initial management of intubated asthmatic patients. Although asthma is a very common disease and something that we deal with on a daily basis in the Emergency Department, it has the potential Read more…
Welcome everyone to a new edition of the EBM blog, which is now renamed Staten Island Corner (Billy and Michelle this is a plea for you two to get involved and add to this). I am taking over for Zina and will doing this on a monthly basis. For Read more…