By Chealsea Mikolowsky, PGY4 Opioids are some of the most commonly used medications in the ED for acute pain management. The epidemic of opioid abuse, addiction, and death in recent years, as well as the side effects and potential for respiratory depression and hemodynamic instability in patient receiving opioids has created a need for ED … Continue reading A Review of Non-Opioid Pain Management Strategies
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Thrombolytics in the Treatment of STEMI
By Chelsea Mikolowsy, PGY4 In my final weeks of residency, I’m becoming overwhelmingly aware of the things that will scare me as an attending. This is especially true of the (admittedly few) areas of medicine that we get very little experience with at Einstein. TPA for STEMI is certainly not something I’ve ever considered giving, … Continue reading Thrombolytics in the Treatment of STEMI
US Journal Club April, 2020: COVID-19 Edition
Paper #1: Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound findings in novel coronavirus disease-19 pnemoniae: a case report and potential applications during COVID-19 outbreak Buonsenso, D et al. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2020 Mar;24(5):2776-2780. DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202003_20549. Full text: https://www.europeanreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2776-2780.pdf Introduction and background information The COVID-19 outbreak began December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since become a global pandemic … Continue reading US Journal Club April, 2020: COVID-19 Edition
US Journal Club February, 2020: Ultrasound in Hypotension
Paper #1: Does Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Improve Clinical Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients With Undifferentiated Hypotension? An International Randomized Controlled Trial From the SHoC-ED Investigators Atkinson, P et al. Annals of Emergency Medicine; 72: 478 - 489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.04.002 Full text: https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(18)30325-1/fulltext Introduction and background information Patients presenting to the ED with hypotension require a high level of … Continue reading US Journal Club February, 2020: Ultrasound in Hypotension
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