OB/GYN – St. Joseph's Health Center: Emergency Medicine Residency Program

REBEL Core Cast – Basics of EM – Introduction

by Anthony CatapanoAirway, Cardiology, Endocrine, ENT, Genitourinary, Heme/Onc, Infectious Disease, Neuro, OB/GYN, Orthopedics, Renal, Silk City Blog, Surgery, The Tox Box, Trauma June 16, 2022June 16, 2022Comments are Disabled

Written by EJ Wright, MD
This post first appeared on REBEL Cast

Welcome to the EMRA Basics of Emergency Medicine Podcast. I am your host EJ Wright, and the following series is an all encompassing approach to the most common chief complaints in the ED based on the well known EMRA Basics of Emergency Medicine, A Chief Complaint-Based Guide. Each cast will highlight myself and a guest attending physician as we take new learners through the differentials, red flags, physical exam findings, and a sample presentation that you need to know to treat patients in the ED.

COW

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Case of the Week, OB/GYN, Silk City Blog March 11, 2019April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Presenting Resident: Katrina D’Amore, PGY4 Chief Complaint: Palpitations Brief HPI: 36 y/o F G4P2012 at 18 weeks gestation presents complaining of palpitations that began this morning. Patient reports a history of “SVT” multiple times in the past and she even underwent ablation in 2012. Patient states that “Adenosine never ever works for me.” Patient denies …

TRANEXAMIC ACID (TXA)

by Anthony CatapanoCritical Care, ENT, Heme/Onc, OB/GYN, Procedures, Silk City Blog, Trauma March 11, 2019April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

TRANEXAMIC ACID (TXA) By: Hima Khamar M.D., PGY3 Tranexamic acid (TXA) has become a huge asset in the world of emergency medicine when it comes to controlling hemorrhage. The main use in the ED is in traumatic hemorrhage, but there are many other uses for TXA. In this article, I will discuss some of the …

Varicella in Pregnancy

by Anthony CatapanoInfectious Disease, OB/GYN, Silk City Blog January 15, 2018April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

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 > …

Case of the Week #2 – I can’t pee!!

by Anthony CatapanoCase of the Week, OB/GYN, Procedures, Silk City Blog March 27, 2017April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

This week’s COTW is about a surprising cause of urinary retention, check it out!

Digoxin abortion gone awry….or did it?

by Anthony CatapanoOB/GYN, Silk City Blog, The Tox Box August 20, 2016April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Emergency medicine has to be one of the most diverse fields of medicine out there. Each day is a whirlwind of activity and patients, ranging from cardiac arrests down to the broken fingernail. Not only are we responsible for the most critically ill, the walking wounded and the patients that have nowhere else to go, but also are faced with the complications encountered in the outpatient setting. This could be a patient fresh from the chiropractor that is having neck pain, can’t move their arm and now have a carotid dissection; or a patient from a outpatient surgi-center that had local anesthesia but is now seizing; or in the case below a patient that underwent an elective abortion and now is hypotensive and bradycardic.

BOGO on TOAs

by Anthony CatapanoInfectious Disease, OB/GYN, Silk City Blog May 10, 2016April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Lower abdominal pain in women can be challenging diagnostic dilemma in the Emergency Department. We had a case of a 50-year-old woman that had been previously seen by her PMD 3 days prior and diagnosed with a “small kidney stone” without any imaging, but did get the ever-reliable percocet prescription. Needless to say, she came …