Episode recap: When last we left our hero, known throughout the globe as Clotting Wonder, it was after a grueling battle with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. Having been put to the test by post-partum hemorrhage in the WOMAN trial, our hero vanquished the evil villain of traumatic hemorrhage (in the exhilarating Read more…
An 18 year-old female presents with rectal pain for one day. She states she was constipated for the past couple days and now has diarrhea. She started to experience painful stooling on the day of presentation. Stools are brown, loose in consistency, and non-bloody. She also complains of feeling pain Read more…
The Critical Care Mini fellowship crew had an excellent discussion (and dinner) on October 21st led by Dr. Wendy Chan (moi!) and facilitated by Dr. Ashika Jain. We share our review of the literature with you below. Thank you for all who participated. I have included links to the orginal Read more…
Welcome to the first Evidence Based Medicine blog entry, where we discuss the mounds or molehills of data for what we do in the ED. Are we practicing dogma? Or is there some science behind it? For the first topic, I bring you… To Lavage or Not – Are We Read more…