EM Mindset: James E. Colletti – Educating Amidst Chaos
Continuing with our EM Mindset series, here is another great piece by Dr. James E. Colletti to kick off your week. Enjoy!
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practice updates
Critical Asthma Patient: Pearls/Pitfalls of Management
You’ve tried your normal asthma treatment pathway, and the patient looks worse… What’s next?
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Teaching the Modern EM Resident
Current EM residents, as part of the Millennial Generation (born between 1981 and the present), now see this new technology as a way of life, and feel the need to be connected online at all times.5,6 As a result, many EM residents have abandoned the traditional lecture hall and textbooks, and have taken to their electronic devices and the World Wide Web for obtaining information.
In order to continue providing quality education that meets the needs of the modern EM resident, the type and quality of educational resources that we deliver must also change.
So the question becomes: How do we use these new resources to guide the education of our current EM residents both on and off shift?
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EM Mindset: John P. Marshall – The Twin Challenges of EM Practice
Continuing with our EM Mindset series, here is another great piece by Dr. John P. Marshall to kick off your week. Enjoy!
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The Pediatric Airway: Pearls and Pitfalls
A great review of managing the pediatric airway with tips on initial assessment, physiology, and equipment.
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Hypertensive Crisis in Kids
I think that we’d all agree that 144/89 is not a normal blood pressure, but it is one that those of us who have the pleasure of caring for adults will look at with almost a sense of comfort – because it isn’t 70/30 or 210/120. Unfortunately, however, this sense of reassurance cannot be had when dealing with children. Depending on the patient’s sex, age, and height, 144/89 may not only represent hypertension but may be associated with hypertensive crisis in kids!
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Posterior MI Recognition
Posterior MIs can be tricky…learn how to recognize this rare set of MIs through this post
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Discharge Strategies
Tips for ensuring the safety of discharged patients, from a newly minted attending physician
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EM Mindset: Mike Stone – Don’t Be A Lazy Jacka**
Continuing with our EM Mindset series, here is another great piece by Dr. Mike Stone to kick off your week. Enjoy!
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The Scary Airway Series Part II: Mastering Obesity, Peds, and Burns
We’ve all heard it at one point or another: “Man, I’d HATE to have to intubate THAT!” Typically, this sentence is used to describe a patient in an ominous, sphincter-tightening situation, or the patient with the obviously suboptimal airway.
You walk by the door to the Resuscitation Bay or Trauma Bay, see that the patient is in respiratory distress, and rapidly breeze through your airway mnemonics and ultimately come to the conclusion that this would be a scary airway. The airways of myths and legends, and where heroes are made.
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