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Hyphema
Hyphema Direct Download Written Summary: Justin Arambasick MD Akron General Medical Center Photo from Life in the Fast Lane Hyphema: blood in the anterior chamber of the eye. It may appear as a reddish … Continue reading
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Tagged aminocaproic acid, anterior chamber, atropine, blood, cycloplegic, donohue, emrap, ercast, exam, eye, eye emergency, george douros, glaucoma, hyphema, iritis, justin arambasick, mel herbert, ocular, re-bleed, rebleed, rob orman, sickle cell, slit lamp, timolol, trabecular meshwork, trauma
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Suicide risk assessment in the emergency department: a how to guide
Direct download Download from iTunes Click on “Suicide Risk Assessment” in the banner above to get the quick reference card, mnemonic explanation and sample documentation. I look forward to your comments and feedback.
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Tagged agitation, anxiety, borderline personality, contract for safety, cutting, ed, emergency department, er, ercast, free emergency medicine podcast, hallucinations, mental health, psychiatry, psychosis, risk, rob orman, self mutilation, suicide, suicide risk, TRAAPPED SILO SAFE
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The propofol assassins. US vs CT for appy. Defensive documentation. Can you really be allergic to iodine?
ERCAST Rant-Off 2011 CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO DIRECT DOWNLOAD It’s open mike time for whatever get’s your goat (in medicine, that is). Featured rants… Cliff Reid of resus.me: The Propofol Assassins Dave Peaslee: “Do you know what medicines … Continue reading
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Tagged appendicitis, aspen, ayers, cliff reid, ct scan, emergency, emergency ultrasound podcast, emergencymedicineireland, ercast, forum, free emergency medicine podcast, hypertension, iodine allergy, jasumback, medication list, medicine, PE, probofol, pulmonary embolism, rant, rants, resident, resus.me, ultasound
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Hypertension Rocks! Zdoggmd returns to ercast to discuss the ins and outs of HTN
The lowdown on hypertension… HTN should be straightforward, so why is it confusing? Part of the problem is terminology. Shayne and Pitts got it right in 2003 when they made sense of classifying different hypertensive scenarios. What in the world do … Continue reading
Posted in Cardiology, Podcasts
Tagged accomplish, ace-i, allhat, arb, blocker, calcium, channel, chlorthalidone, emergency, emory, emrap, ercast, HTN, hypertension, hypertensive, orman, pitts, rob, severely, shane, thiazide, uncontrolled, urgency, zdogg, zdoggmd
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What would Hippocrates do? SMART EM’s David Newman speaks with ERCAST
Interview with emergency medicine luminary David Newman of… SMART EM The NNT website Hippocrates Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine Here is the audio
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Tagged back pain, david, david newman, emergency, ercast, hippocrates shadow, house of medicine, mammogram, medicine, newman, rob orman, smart em, smartem, the nnt, undifferentiated abdominal pain
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Flutter, Fib, and the mystery of ablation
Comments, Rants, Australian accent? Ercast google voice line 503-208-5680 Consult with electrophysiologist Randy Jones MD Is there a limit to the number of cardioversions a patient can have in a year? -No limit -if a patient comes into the ED for … Continue reading
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Tagged ablation, anticoagulation, aspirin, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, cardioversion, chads, chads vasc, chads2, coumadin, emergency, ercast, inr, jones, pill in a pocket, pradaxa, randy, warfarin
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Pediatric Syncope
It’s usually nothing serious, but sometimes it can be a harbinger of sudden death. Ercast interviews Ray Moreno, MD about a rational approach to the pediatric patient who presents following a syncopal event. Here are a few of the links … Continue reading
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Tagged abscess, brugada, diagnostic, ecg, ekg, ercast, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, lin, loop, LVH, michelle, moreno, murmur, orman, paucis, pediatrics, prolonged, pv, qt, qtc, ray, risk, still, still's, suicide, syncope, tests, vasodepressor, verbis, workup
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Perianal Abscess
We talk with colorectal surgeon Megan Cavanaugh about the ins and outs of managing perianal abscesses in the ED. Two listener emails. One asking a question about induced hypothermia. For more info on induced hypothmermia, click here Rob becomes a … Continue reading
Do cardiac risk factors matter?
It’s beaten into our heads that we need to ask, document and consider cardiac risk factors in the acute chest pain patient. And we do. Diligently. But do risk factors for chronic coronary artery disease play a role in helping … Continue reading
Loop Abscess Drainage
If you are an EM:RAP listener, this is the video I talked about in the November episode on abscess managment. It goes through the steps of a new technique for draining a cutaneous abscess as described in this article. I … Continue reading
Posted in Abscess, Videos
Tagged abscess, antibiotics, drainage, ed, emergency, emergencypdx, emrap, ercast, free, health, incision, infection, journal, loop drainage, mrsa, of, orman, packing, pediatric, podcast, portland, procedure, pus, rob, staph, staph aureus, surgery, vegunta, vessel loop, video
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