Here’s Dr. Aluisio with today’s Morning Report! Medical Therapies for Stable Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Risk, Benefit and Equivocality Epidemiology • Incidence: 40-150 per 100,000 per annum, with 450,000 hospitalizations in the USA • Causes: peptic ulcer (~45%); gastro-duodeno-esophagitis (25%); varicies (~15%) Other (Mallory-Weiss tear, tumor, angiodysplasia, aorto-enteric fistula) Read more…
Here’s Dr. Aldokhi with today’s Morning Report! Pancreatitis Epidemiology – Annual incidence of acute pancreatitis range from 4.9 to 35 per 100,000 – Mortality1.5 percent in mild pancreatitis & 17 percent in severe pancreatitis – Alcoholic pancreatitis is more common in men than in women Classification – Acute and Read more…
EM-CCM CONFERENCE SUMMARY PRESENTED BY DR. PIA DANIEL SUMMARY BY DR. FRANCIS YOUN CASE: Elderly, bedbound, nonverbal female with past history of dementia, hypothyroidism, sigmoid volvulus s/p sigmoidectomy and colostomy sent from NH for altered mental status, fever, and concern for bowel obstruction. VS: T 103, BP 99/60, Read more…
EM-CCM Conference: February 2014 (Sorry posting this a little late!) Presented by Dr. Freedman Summary by Dr. Youn CASE: 84M with CAD (recent NSTEMI) on ASA and Clopidogrel, CHF, HTN, DM p/w 4 episodes of BRBPR with dizziness and SOB. Pt was hypotensive, tachycardic with pale conjunctiva and gross red Read more…
Thanks to Dr. Basile for presenting today’s Morning Report! Case: 74 yo female with pmh of HTN and arthritis presents with 3-4 days of lightheadedness and weakness. Pt also reports intermittent epigastric abdominal pain two days prior to presentation. Pt has also been taking naproxen for two weeks. BP: 171/97, Read more…
Here’s Dr. Nordstrom presenting today’s Morning Report! Case: 47 y.o male with history of EtOH abuse, presents with vomiting. VS: 97/52, HR 123 RR 24, Os Sat 98%. On exam the patient has a mildly distended abdomen with multiple dilated veins and spider angiomas. During evalutation the patient vomits Read more…
Food-borne illness is all too common. Scott did a great job at our last WM meeting discussing the different types of food-borne illness and some of their treatments. The PDF for the article he discussed can be found here: Treating Food-borne Illness Scott even went as far as to bring Read more…