Kids eat up your money in more ways than one. Some may eat it up in the form of $50,000 a year in college tuition and some eat it up as a meal. For coins that get stuck in the esophagus the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy recommends watching asymptomatic patients for a period of …
I recently gave an “ID Updates” lecture at AAEM’s Scientific Assembly in Las Vegas, February 2016. Here are the top 10 pearls from my lecture. Some may be review, some more cutting edge. Enjoy!
Dr. Rory Spiegel, from EMNerd, wrote a recent piece in Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine about how our undying love for left ventricular function in shock patients is perhaps overdoing it and the focus should rather be on the venous return.
Always screen patient for an Afferent Pupillary Defect (APD)! A negative Seidel Test does not rule out a Globe rupture Avoid NSAIDS and aspirin in Hyphemas and Globe Rupture CT Scan of the Orbit is only 56-68% sensitive for identifying a Globe Rupture, so don’t solely rely on it for the diagnosis! Order a Sickle …
ER physicians diagnose CHF often and actually very well on clinical grounds at the bedside. So why are we ordering BNP’s when we already know the diagnosis? The evidence clearly states in which situations the BNP will not help you. Check out the proposed algorithm recently published in EM Resident and let’s put the evidence …
We are hosting our 8th Annual Emergency Medicine Symposium on May 4, 2016 at the Passaic County Public Safety Academy in Wayne, NJ. This year we are fortunate enough to have Dr. Kevin Klauer…
On March 28, 2016 St. Joe’s announced the ALTO (Alternatives to Opiates) program in front of a Legislative Summit held here at St. Joe’s. This event was attended by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, Cory Booker…