For those who were not in conference yesterday: Dr. Rushabh Shah discussed AV nodal blocks: For all AV blocks consider: beta blocker or calcium channel blocker overdose, hyperkalemia, inferior MI, cardiomyopathy, and myocarditis 1st degree and 2nd degree Mobitz type 1 AV block: typically benign 2nd degree Mobitz type 2: Read more…
You watch the dusk enfold the mountains and you take a large drink of water. You may be a sweaty feast for mosquitoes, but you’re not in Pod A, and you still have a week of vacation left. You turn around to say something to your friend, who is just Read more…
It’s a busy night shift when a nurse alerts you to an elderly patient sent from a nursing home who is hypotensive, tachycardic, tachypneic, febrile, altered, and appears dehydrated. You assume sepsis, send labs, begin treating empirically with broad spectrum antibiotics, and start fluid resuscitating the patient. Despite receiving 30cc/kg of normal Read more…