A review of bread and butter Emergency Medicine topics
Holy Tick the Inservice is TOMORROW! No time for chatting. Here is a quick review on something that always trips me up: Tick-Borne Infections. Here’s the story: Something-year-old somebody was camping at somewhere sometime ago. They come to you with the following symptoms. What is the diagnosis and treatment? Read more…
You are in the middle of a busy shift where you just had enough time scarf down some tacos in between seeing patients of all sorts that seem to be bleeding, anemic, and requiring transfusions (when it rains, it pours, right?). You’ve started transfusions on 4 patients and then dash Read more…
In the spirit of paralyzing terror that makes you seep through all holes like some cholinergic toxidrome, lets talk some ACLS medications in meds. Sitting comfortably in your last set of bodega-bought undergarments, oblivious of the contact dermatitis that is soon to ensue, you receive a notification: 3 year Read more…
It’s your second night in the Peds ED, and you’ve barely recovered from last night’s vomit-swallow resuscitation when in walk parents Stu and Didi Pickles with their 10 week old infant son, Tommy. Tommy looks happy as an old man in a diaper scheming a rebellion, but his parents are Read more…
Sifting through the hoards of mucous and foreign objects in the nostrils of your city’s youth, you are ready for your mid-shift feeding in the peds ED. However, before stepping away to your trough, an EMS notification comes in for a hypoxic 10 week old child. You vomit and swallow, Read more…
I have some great news. You’ve been working your little booty off all year, and it’s finally time for your much-needed vacation. This year you’re doing it right with a getaway to the far reaches of Caribbean where you will soak up sun, mai-tais, and delicious fresh food. On your Read more…
Its WrestlMania XIII 1997, and the Undertaker is soon to destroy Syncho Sid thanks to Bret Hart hitting Sid in the abdomen with a metal chair. You are sad for Sid and start wondering:
Happy Holidays from Bored Review! This week’s post is so exciting it will make you shed… It’s New Years Day and your first patient of the new year is a 45yo man with no significant prior PMH. However, it’s his third visit to your ED in the last month. On his first Read more…
It’s 3 am and the ED has fallen into a lull. There is only a trickle of patient’s seeking for a a work note, though you’d believe their farfetched complaints if it weren’t for your wise attending. Enter the headache. Before you are able to dismiss yet another malingerer, Read more…
You’re busy at work in the ED of Seattle Grace Hospital when the infamous Dr. Christina Yang (one of the premier cardiothoracic surgeons in your prestigious fictional hospital) makes her way down to the ER after finishing a case in the OR. She tell you that she’s been having severe Read more…