A Clinical Blog by the Emergency Medicine Residents at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Silk City Emergency Medicine
About the Residency
Established originally in 2004, our residency program has quickly grown to support the needs of the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ. With over 165,000 annual ED visits…
Case of the Week COW #14
Is ST-Segment Elevation in Lead aVR Getting Too Much Respect? Check out another Cardio Case of the Week.
Pediatric Pneumonia
Dr. Mike Hong PGY-4 presents a case and excellent review for the management of pneumonia in the pediatric population.
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center 10th Annual Emergency Medicine Symposium
Join us for the 10th Annual Emergency Medicine Symposium on April 17, 2018! Click here for more information.
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Case of the Week COW#13
CC: Chest Pain HPI: 49-year-old female brought in via ALS presents complaining of Chest pain. As per the Paramedics, the patient was found to be in no acute distress, stating she had exertional chest pain, which had subsided. The pre-hospital ECG was suspicious for ischemia and she was given ASA. Patient states she was walking home…
Pediatric Pearls – Bronchiolitis
Check out this month’s Pediatric Pearls on Bronchiolitis brought to you by our own Dr. Hima Khamar PGY-2!
Varicella in Pregnancy
Varicella-zoster virus Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV)2 and may cause maternal mortality or serious morbidity > Reactivation of latent infection, usually many years after the primary infection, may result in herpes zoster (shingles), a painful vesicular eruption in the distribution of sensory nerve roots2 >…
Managing Dislocations of the Hip in the ED
Check out this brief review of the management of hip dislocations in the Emergency Department. The info here is taken from this month’s EM Practice EMPlify podcast.
Case of the Week COW #12
CC: Left leg pain HPI: 52 year old male with PMH of IDDM presents to the Emergency Dept. (ED) with left leg pain for the past 9 days which has become progressively worse. He is a taxi driver and reports that a part of the seat, which supports his legs, has been rubbing against his…
Pain Pearls – Nitrous Oxide
As part of our EM training at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center we are lucky to receive additional training in alternative methods of analgesic delivery in the ED. Some of these alternatives include ultrasound guided regional nerve blocks, nonnarcotic infusions and injections, nitrous oxide, and the list goes on. Today’s post is a review of our Nitrous program developed by Dr. Alexis LaPietra.
Case of the week COW #11
CC: Can’t see for 2 months HPI: 10 year old male with no significant past medical history presents to the Emergency Dept. complaining of painless vision loss in the right eye for 2-3 months. Patient states he has been having difficulty seeing out of his right eye for 2 months despite changing positions in class,…
Student Clerkship
Our Emergency Department (ED) is one of the busiest in the country and provides an excellent opportunity for medical students interested in Emergency Medicine. Throughout the 4-week rotation students will…