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. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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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. Currently, survival to discharge sits at around 8%. Over the last decade, it has become clear that the keys to improved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and return of neurologic function (RONF) are early CPR,
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This week we review the presentation and management of severe hyponatremia.
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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. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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Cardiac arrest is common occurrence effecting > 300,000 Americans each year and with a generally dismal prognosis (survival rate 7-9%). Currently, there is an absence of evidence or guidelines to aid physicians’ regarding the timing of resuscitation termination when patients do not obtain return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has been useful in other critical patients such as in trauma or undifferentiated shock.
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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, painful condition encountered in the Emergency Department (ED). Sustained contraction of smooth muscle in the ureter as a kidney stone passes the length of the ureter leads to pain.
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A quick and simple algorithm to address the presentation of vaginal bleeding in the ED.
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