Podcast #204: Thoracotomy

Author: Sam Killian, M.D. Educational Pearls: Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality (SCIWORA) is a diagnosis defined as traumatic injury to spine with clinical sx of traumatic myelopa...

30 Mar 20184min

Author: Aaron Lessen, M.D. Educational Pearls: Recurrence rate for first time unprovoked seizures - 5% after 48 hours, 14% at 2 weeks , 30% after 4 months. Higher risk for recurrence: age under 3; pa...

28 Mar 20182min

Author: Gretchen Hinson, M.D. Educational Pearls: Controversial topic. Pathophysiology - acidosis leads to an extracellular potassium shift. Patients in DKA will be intracellularly potassium deplete,...

26 Mar 20185min

Author: Alicia Oberle, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study has shown risk factors for return included patients at high risk for resistance (nursing home, obstructive uropathy), patient where diagno...

23 Mar 20182min

Author: Aaron Lessen, M.D. Educational Pearls: There is currently debate within the medical community about what constitutes cardiac activity on ultrasound in the setting of cardiac arrest. A recent ...

21 Mar 20182min

Author: Peter Bakes, M.D. Educational Pearls: Rare disease with 1-2 patients out of 100,000. About 60% of patients report a preceding diarrheal illness and classically presents with an ascending mo...

19 Mar 20184min

Author: Nick Hatch, M.D. Educational Pearls Tramadol acts at multiple receptors and is a partial agonist at the mu opioid receptor, but also blocks reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine throughou...

16 Mar 20183min

Author: Aaron Lessen, M.D. Educational Pearls A "stuffer" is a term for someone who hastily and conceals a bag of drugs orally/rectally/vaginally in an unplanned situation. A "packer" is someone who...

14 Mar 20183min