The RADICAL Trial was a prospective, double-blind, randomized, non-inferiority trial evaluating reduced dose (62.5 mg twice daily) vs. standard dose (125 mg twice daily) of acetazolamide for the prevention of acute mountain sickness in adults trekking to Everest Base Camp Read more…
They say Emergency Medicine has one of the highest rates of burnout among any medical specialty. This is likely due to demanding nature of our work in the ED, as well as our erratic shift hours. However, working endless shifts Read more…
A 65-year-old male with history of diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented to the ED with nausea and vomiting that began that morning. He also reported generalized weakness and decreased exercise tolerance. Upon initial presentation, the patient had Read more…
February’s Food & Journal Club (FJC) article was chosen by one of the senior residents to open up a discussion regarding evaluation of chest pain in the ED and the utility of the HEART score in our patient population. The Read more…
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, 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
