by Rebecca Seliga, Alex Coutin, Michael Kruse | Jun 29, 2022 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Thrombosis
You are working an urgent care shift and you access your ED electronic track-board to pick up the next patient waiting to be seen: You assign yourself to patient Smith, and notice a helpful comment from your triage nurse stating the patient’s name is Angela. You...
by Doran Drew, Amanda Mattice | Jun 23, 2022 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Resuscitation
A review of some of the most relevant elements of the 2021 surviving sepsis campaign for the emergency physician. Definitions Our operative definition of sepsis & septic shock are the sepsis-3 definitions [1]. Sepsis: “Sepsis is a life threatening organ...
by Graham Wilson, Josee Malette | Jun 16, 2022 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease
How many times a shift do you consider a urinary tract infection? As Emergency physicians, you make and/or consider urinary tract infection (UTI) multiple times per shift.1 Actually, up to 5% of ED visits are related to genitourinary complaints.2-4 From simple...
by Shahbaz Syed | May 5, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
We’ve previously spent some time talking about implicit bias and its impact on patient care.It is of course important to recognize that we all have elements of implicit bias – these blindspots are programmed within us, and recognizing them is an important...
by Maria Doubova, Lucy Karp | Apr 28, 2022 | Cardiology, COVID-19, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Chest pain is one of the most common presentations to the emergency department (ED) and includes a wide differential diagnosis. In today’s post, we will review a less common cause of chest pain seen in the ED: pericarditis and myocarditis. We will also review...
