Mental Health Monthly #8: Trauma-Informed Care
Contributor: Randi Libbon, MD The Core features of trauma-informed care include: Patient empowerment, choice and collaboration. This means educating patients and allowing patients to make choices abo...
11 Aug 20219min
Podcast 703: Fever in Infants
Contributor: Neil Cella, MD Educational Pearls: 10% of patients 100.4) have an serious bacterial infection Most of these are UTIs, but also consider pneumonia and meningitis Requires CXR, LP, lab...
10 Aug 20215min
Podcast 702: Paralytic Awareness
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Known risk factors for being awake and paralyzed in the OR include only receiving IV medications, long-acting paralytics, and no formal monitoring sy...
9 Aug 20212min
Podcast 701: Elevated Blood Pressure Readings
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent retrospective cohort study looked at elevated BP readings in the ED and correlation to underlying hypertension Large cohort of over 30,000 pat...
3 Aug 20213min
Podcast 700: Analgesics for Acute Musculoskeletal Pain
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent RCT compared pain relief in patients receiving five medications for acute musculoskeletal pain Acetaminophen 1000mg/ibuprofen 400 mg Acetam...
2 Aug 20212min
Podcast 699: Pediatric Fingernail Avulsions
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Traditionally, fingernails were replaced after avulsion using sutures Sometimes artificial material was placed when the fingernail was not available ...
28 Jul 20213min
Podcast 698: Empathy, Burnout, and Patient Satisfaction
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Survey of EM physicians to self-report empathy and burnout levels and correlated with patient satisfaction scores Patient satisfaction was not affect...
27 Jul 20212min
Podcast 697: Kounis Syndrome
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Kounis syndrome is an allergic acute coronary syndrome Triggers include medications (antibiotics), insect bites, or other common allergens Believed t...
26 Jul 20213min
