Toxicology Talks with Toxijawn Author: Melissa Yu, DO, Emergency Medicine Resident PGY2Fellow: Alexis Cates, DO, Medical Toxicology Fellow PGY6Faculty: James Krueger, MD, Medical Toxicology / Emergency Medicine attending The case. A 28 year old female presents to the ED for evaluation of a bump to the left arm that she thinks started as a bug … Continue reading Terrible Teratogens – Toxicology Blog July, 2020
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US Journal Club: June 2020 – Small Bowel Obstruction
Paper #1 Accuracy of Abdominal Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction in the Emergency Department Frasure S, et al. World J Emerg Med. 2018;9(4):267-271. doi:10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2018.04.005 Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117534/ Introduction and background informationPatients frequently present to the ED with signs and symptoms concerning for small bowel obstruction (SBO)Literature estimates that 13 million patients present … Continue reading US Journal Club: June 2020 – Small Bowel Obstruction
Palliative and End-of-life Care in the Emergency Department Today
By Chelsea Mikolowsky, PGY4 Patients at their end of life are encountered regularly in the ED and the opportunity to open up a discussion of patients’ wishes and goals of care, and to offer possible palliative care, are many. Although this continues to be an area many ED physicians receive little training in. This fact, … Continue reading Palliative and End-of-life Care in the Emergency Department Today
US Journal Club: May, 2020 Soft-Tissue Ultrasound
Paper #1: The Effect of Soft-tissue Ultrasound on the Management of Cellulitis in the Emergency Department Tayal V, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13(4):384‐388. DOI:10.1197/j.aem.2005.11.074 Full text: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1197/j.aem.2005.11.074 Introduction and background informationThere are approximately 2 million annual visits for skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) per year in US Emergency Departments1Differentiating cellulitis from abscess can … Continue reading US Journal Club: May, 2020 Soft-Tissue Ultrasound
Einstein Emergency Medicine 