Simulation Cases Cliff's Notes - Appendicitis in Pregnancy
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Every month we summarize our simulation cases. No deep dive here, just the top five take aways from this month's case on diagnosing appendicits in pregnancy.
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FOAM [free open access medical education] & How to Use It with Matt Delaney
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FOAM [free open access medical education] is growing at an amazing rate (we are actually using FOAM now to talk about FOAM). This resource, like most powerful tools, has its pro and cons. To review FOAM and its use in Graduate Medical Education, we sat down with Matt Delaney.
Read MoreBlood Pressure Pearls for Neuro emergencies with Evie Marcolini
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Keeping the blood pressure targets straight for different intracranial processes can be a daunting task. In this blog and associated podcast we review the specific intracranial pathologies, their associated blood pressure targets, and reference the supporting literature.
Read MoreOut of Hospital Cardiac Arrest- Keeping It Real With Really Limited Resources
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Running a good resuscitation for a cardiac arrest patient is hard, especially when staffing or resources are low. Here we look at the data on how to run a code well when resources are limited.
Read MoreFentanyl Hysteria
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In this podcast episode we sit down with ED toxicologist Ryan Marino to talk about the phenomenon known in the media as "Fentanyl Hysteria"- a trend of fear-mongering, exaggerated reporting, and misinformation.
Read MoreSimulation Cases Cliff's Notes - November 2019
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No deep dive here, just the top five take aways from this month's high fidelity simulation case on massive hemoptysis.
Read MoreEmergency Mansplaning- Gender Equality in your ED
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In this post we look at some under-represented topics in Emergency Medicine- gender roles, biases, and Mansplaining.
Read MoreNeuroimaging Update: The Studies and Sequences You Should Know
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The world of emergency neuroimaging is evolving and increasingly influencing time-sensitive treatment decisions. A basic understanding of the imaging studies and sequences you may be asked to obtain in the ED may help you better manage your patients. In this post, Dr. Matthew Siket reviews the major four neuroimaging modalities (CT, CTA, Perfusion, and MRI).
Read MoreMarble Mouth- Oropharyngeal Foreign Bodies in Kids
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It’s one of those diseases that really tightens the sphincter and we need to talk about it - a foreign body in a kid’s upper airway and how to deal with it. In this blog and podcast we review the complexity of the oral foreign body (FB) in kids and why this disease process is so tough to handle.
Read MoreYou Down with GME? Yeah, You Know Me- Learning during residency from the residents' perspective
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We talk a fair bit in MedEd (that's medical education for cool people) about how to best teach medicine, but rarely ask those who these conversations and thoughts most effect... the residents.
So we sat down with two of our graduating chief residents to ask them their parting thoughts on GME.
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