It’s 1:28am and the Red Phone in your critical care area rings. It’s the vice president who is notifying you personally that the HAZMAT team is enroute with Steven Seagal. Seagal, who single handedly stopped a terrorist with Read more…
This month in the WM meeting, we spoke about jellyfish envenomations. The paper we discussed can be found here: Jellyfish Paper This was a great paper that covered a lot of information about the different jellyfish in different parts of Read more…
31 yo M presents to your Emergency Department with palpitations and shortness of breath. His EKG is below: 1. What is the interpretation? Rate, rhythm, axis, intervals, etc…. 2. What is the emergent and subsequent treatment? Best Read more…
Congratulations to Dr. Blumenberg on winning this month’s COtM. There were two well thought out responses dueling for supremacy this month, but there can only be one, and Blumenberg highlighted a crucial aspect to the management of this patient which Read more…
Let’s imagine you are in this very shift in your critical care area (who knows, maybe this really happened). A 56 year old man was shot in lower abdomen in a robbery, brought in by EMS as a notification and Read more…
Willy Wonka is a 78 year-old dude with a history of BPH, HTN, and mild dementia, brought in from the Chocolate Factory Assisted Living for the Sweet & Elderly, with a golden ticket from EMS saying he’s been acting even Read more…
Transfusion of blood is a common practice in both emergency departments, hospital wards, ICUs, and peri-operative settings worldwide; in the ED, we transfuse different kinds of patients all the time including but not limited to the trauma patient and GI/vaginal Read more…
Wait…. I thought this was a pediatric blog…Yes; we are talking about the little neonate that comes to the Emergency Room that is vomiting “all his feeds” as per the mother. You are a little confused as the baby has Read more…
Coming in hotter than August, here is this month’s COtM presentation: A 51 y/o M presents to your ED with 6 days of imbalance and difficulty walking. He says he feels that he cannot keep himself upright when he walks and that Read more…