Grand Rounds Recap 5.25.22

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Grand Rounds Recap 5.25.22

Join us as we dive in to some terrifying cases of gynecologic pathologies in the ED followed by tips and tricks on lifelong learning from the amazing clinician and medical educator Dr. Jenny Beck-Esmay through our visiting lecture series! We then continue our journey to always be improving patient care and have some excellent discussion in our monthly Morbidity and Mortality Conference with Chief Resident, Dr. Colleen Laurence. Don’t miss all the incredible nuggets of wisdom from this week’s Grand Rounds!

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.27.22

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.27.22

This week’s Grand Rounds featured fantastic discussions covering the breadth of pathology we see in the ED each day. Join us as Dr. Urbanowicz shares case-based insights in this month’s Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Dr. Haffner walks us through the various etiologies and management for lymphedema and its mimics, Drs. Stark and Koehler go head to head in a CPC case of HSV meningoencephalitis, and Drs. Chuko, Crawford, and Ijaz focus on cardiology in R3 small groups with lessons on transvenous pacing from Dr. Crawford.

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.26.2021

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.26.2021

Dr. Koehler reviews cases and shared clinical pearls with this month’s Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Dr. Kowalenko visits virtually to discuss ABEM Board Certification and give us a medical history lesson on Presidential Assassinations

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.28.20

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.28.20

Check out this week’s Grand Rounds Recap! Dive into colitis on CT via M&M with Dr. Koehler. Understand and treat cardiogenic shock with Drs. Kimmel and Broadstock. Share some laughs and learn about eyes with Visiting Professor Dr. Glaucomflecken. Disposition abnormal cardiac rhythms as seen in the community with Dr. LaFollette

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.4.20

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.4.20

We had an outstanding week in Grand Rounds, led off by a visiting lecturer and UC EM Class of 2013, Dr. Renee Salas. Dr. Salas is currently Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical school and a Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and Global Environment. Her talk was entitled “Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice - Implications for Emergency Medicine.” Next, Dr. Baez presented a fascinating Ultrasound Grand Rounds with Ultrasound M&M. Drs. Frederick and Walsh led us through their new clinical pathway for Non-Pregnant Vaginal Bleeding in their QI/KT. Dr. Klaszky gave his R4 Clinical Capstone lecture on how to make effective presentations.

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Grand Rounds Recap 2.19.20

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Grand Rounds Recap 2.19.20

This week featured an all-start lineup of resident lectures. Dr. Golden started us off with an amazing M&M, followed by Dr. Mullen enlightening us on eating disorders and the management in the ED. Dr. Iparraguirre taught us about the management of the severely burned patient. Dr. Laurence and Dr. Lagasse faced off in another interesting CPC. Finally Dr. Goff, hit it home with review of pneumonia severity scores and their clinical context.

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.20.19

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.20.19

Dr. Golden kicked grand rounds off this week with our monthly morbidity and mortality conference, followed by Dr. Lane’s deep dive on massive pulmonary embolism in cardiac arrest and how to approach this. Dr. Owens then gave us a detailed review on a probably-more-common-than-you-think parasite that has started popping up in the US, and our excellent ED pharmacists gave us a crash course on common antidotes to various poisonings, overdoses, and bites that we frequently see in the ED. Finally, Dr. Ham finished up with a review of the importance of chronic hypertension in our ED population and how we can make a difference especially those with limited access to care.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.31.19

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.31.19

This week Dr. Kathryn Banning led us in our first Morbidity and Mortality conference of the year. Dr. Banning led us through robust discussion about concurrent pathology presentations, biases and more. Air Care Grand Rounds followed, in which we reviewed aircraft operations and logistics with the Air Care team and went through a simulation case that highlighted the importance of stress inoculation.

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.29.18

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.29.18

This weeks grand rounds started off with a Morbidity and Mortality presentation by Dr. Baez including topics such as STEMI in LVH, pharmocologic cardioversion, and septic arthritis of the finger. This was followed by Dr. Freiermuth who gave us some pearls on the approach and management of sickle cell patients in the ED. Dr. Shaw then discussed some disturbing new health policy issues. Dr. Essell, a Heme/Onc attending at Jewish Hospital then walked us though GvHD, Acute Leukemia emergencies, and a fascinating new treatment option for blood cancers CAR-T. The day continued with a review of burn management by Dr. Spigner. Dr. Walsh then finished the day with an overview of carboxyhemoglobinemia and methemoglobinemia.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.25.18

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.25.18

This week started with our monthly Morbidity and Mortality conference where we discussed posterior MIs, tough dissections and more tough cases. We then heard a debate on the use of D-Dimer in the diagnosis of aortic dissection. Finally, we were led through a simulation of a sick GI bleed requiring Minnesota tube placement, and we discussed optimal management of these challenging patients.

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.29.17

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.29.17

This week Dr. Lagasse gave us a great M&M covering intra-ocular foreign bodies, empyema management in the ED and septic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Iparraguirre lead small groups in EKG case studies in heart blocks, followed by Drs Nagle and LaFollette squaring off in a CPC of an undifferentiated patient with aphasia. Drs Goel and McKee wrapped up this week with a clinical soapbox on patient turnover and a case follow up of lytics in massive PE.

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Grands Rounds Recap 4.26.2017

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Grands Rounds Recap 4.26.2017

Dr. McKean kicked off this week with another great M&M where he taught us about the utility of stress testing to predict coronary artery disease, otomastoiditis, and much more. Dr. Brenkert joined us for an hour on pediatric musculoskeletal ultrasound and then Dr. Mudd reviewed transfusion strategies in upper GI bleeding. Dr. Ventura taught us about CSF analysis and Drs. Stettler and Whitford rounded out the day with a CPC about acid-base disturbances. 

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.29.2017

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.29.2017

Dr. Grosso kicked off Grand Rounds this week with March M&M by diving deep into some core content, including BB and CCA overdoses, influenza, massive transfusion, post-intubation hypotension, and neurological catastrophes causing cardiac arrest. Dr. O'Brien broke down coagulopathy of liver disease and DIC for us while Dr. Golden taught us about febrile seizures. Drs. McKee and Colmer talked through the evidence behind their CPQE pathway on vent management in obstructive lung disease. Drs. Liebman and Powell went head to head in a CPC case about sternal osteomyelitis to round out another excellent week of learning. 

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.16.16

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.16.16

This week, Dr. Grosso led us through some fascinating case review during M&M. We had a fantastic, practical review of minor-care related hand complaints led by our R3s Drs. Teuber, Gorder and Plash. We learned about injury management in resource-limited settings during Global Health Grand Rounds with Drs. Roche, Lagasse, Teuber. Dr. Soria and Dr. Riddle gave us their R2 and R4 case follow-ups, respectively.

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