Dec
18
Pandorama Randomorama
December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Sweet, Sweet Chronic Back Pain An extremely busy shift last night. Not necessarily by volume (because I actually saw relatively few patients) but certainly by acuity. Almost everyone was legitimately sick and required real, honest-to-gosh admissions for bona fide medical complaints. And three of them were admitted to the ICU, two of them intubated. In [...]
Sep
22
Emergency Medicine Residency (Part 1.75 A Parable About Trauma and Perception)
September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Perspective Consider two separate rooms in the same Emergency Department. In one lies a young man who has been shot in the chest and arrived in full cardiac arrest with the paramedics frantically giving CPR. Red frothy bubbles come out of the gaping hole over his heart whenever the bag attached to his endotracheal tube [...]
Sep
21
Emergency Medicine Residency (Part 1.5: Answering an Important Reader Question)
September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Whenever you get a major trauma, do you get your fair share of procedures (chest tubes, central lines, etc..) or do the surgical residents tend to take them? . At our program, because it is a Level I trauma center, trauma surgery is in charge of most of the traumas. The EM residents manage the [...]
Sep
20
Emergency Medicine Residency (Part 1)
September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(The following article is directed primarily at those contemplating matching into Emergency Medicine. Those of you who are not may read it but I make no apologies for targeting a particular group of readers. Emergency Medicine has become a very popular specialty lately so I’m sure there is some interest out there. Most of my [...]