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…