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Post-It Pearls 3.0

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Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by.
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Journal Review

Parenteral Ketorlac Dosing

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Thanks to Salim Rezaie for guest editing this post which is cross-posted on REBEL EM.

Ketorolac is a commonly used parenteral analgesic in the Emergency Department (ED) for a variety of indications ranging from musculoskeletal injuries to renal colic.
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Post-It Pearls 2.0

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Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by.
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Journal Review

ED POCUS in OHCA – The REASON Study

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Special thank you to Salim Rezaie for guest editing this post.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects > 300,000 people in the US each year and most of these patients are transported to the Emergency Department (ED) for further care.
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Severe Hyponatremia

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This week we review the presentation and management of severe hyponatremia.
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Post-It Pearls 1.0

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Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by.
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Use of Alpha Blockers in Ureteric Colic – Systematic Review + Meta-Analysis

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Thanks to Rory Spiegel for providing peer review for this post.

This post is cross-posted on REBEL EM.

Ureteric (renal) colic is a common,
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Vaginal Bleeding

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A quick and simple algorithm to address the presentation of vaginal bleeding in the ED.
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Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH

Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH

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Anand "Swami" Swaminathan is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine in the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Department and assistant residency director of the NYU/Bellevue Emergency Medicine residency program. His interests are in resuscitation medicine, resident education and cutting the knowledge translation window. Swami is an active contributor and supporter of innovations in medicine, particularly Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM). He is a contributor to a number of sites including ALiEM, LITFL, ERCast, and The SGEM. Swami is an associate editor for REBEL EM and REBEL Cast. He is also faculty for the Essentials of Emergency Medicine and Deputy Editor of EM: RAP.