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Draining Paronychias, The Missed Procedure No One Cares About
As residents eager to be trained, we are often eager... overeager for procedures. However, one rule that I keep at the forefront of my mind is this: Don’t put holes in people unless you absolutely have to.
Adenosine as a Diagnostic Tool?
Six EM docs standing in the resuscitation bay staring at an EKG hotly debating the correct interpretation of the patient’s EKG after the patient becomes acutely tachycardic.
Should I Run for Chief? →
It's that time of year again. "Are you gonna run for chief?"
After you get asked for the ninth time, you start to panic a little. You've debated with yourself, drafted a pros and cons list, yet feel just as lost as when you started. The time is ticking for you to make a decision. Well, are you going to do it?
The D-dimer Debate
Or alternatively, a pearl of the day to (maybe) clear up some confusion and take another look at the commonly asked question of -- can we age-adjust the d-dimer we use at our institution?
Monitor Tips & Tricks
On this next episode of "useful things that RN Minh taught me", let's go over some neat tricks to effectively using our patient monitors!
Dressing a Central Line Properly
Anyways as many of our residents know, central lines placed in the emergency department are frequently changed shortly after transfer to the ICU out of concern that lines were not placed under sterile technique. Not an ideal situation, as repeat catheter placement results in additional risk and discomfort to the patient.
Updates in Angioedema Management
One question that has been visited before, but came up again on recent shifts -- the non-crashing angioedema patient i.e. they do not require intubation. Specifically, the question that came up was eloquently phrased as “Wait, TXA? FFP? Why do we do that again?” Today we’ll touch on angioedema in general but focus on the treatment of bradykinin-mediated angioedema.
New Site, New Headaches
Thank you to all who regularly follow my ramblings on medicine, programing, entrepreneurship and life that get compiled into this blog. Currently under construction as old posts are reformatted to fit this new platform.