Grand Rounds Recap 05.29.24

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.29.24

Another week, another great Grand Rounds line-up at UCEM. We start off with our monthly Mortality and Morbidity Conference led by Chief Resident Dr. Finney. This session covers cases from the month of April- including the treatment of a canine in the SRU. One of our SRU leaders, Dr. Chhabria, shares the changing landscape of cardiac arrest management using ECMO. Next up, Dr. Thompson helps us reflect on the self-talk that we engage in on a daily basis and offers advice on how to improve our mindset- especially when we are on-shift. We learn from Dr. Kotei how to better ED proceduralists when encountering patients with ascites and/or pleural effusions. We end with Dr. Hajdu challenging Dr. Baez to solve a puzzling case of progressive vision loss in a otherwise healthy young patient.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.12.23

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.12.23

Another exciting week of grand rounds with a ton of variety! We started off with Fundamentals of ECMO with Dr. Bonomo, one of our EM/CC faculty, so that we have a better understanding of why and how ECMO works and the data surrounding outcomes, as well as how to facilitate identifying appropriate candidates to allow for cannulation directly from the ED for E-CPR or VV-ECMO. Next, Dr. McDonough helped us practice leading as a listener with a lecture and small groups for this iteration of our longitudinal Leadership Curriculum. We moved into ultrasound GR with Dr. Stolz and discussed many different types of artifact and their clinical utility in our point-of-care practice. We closed out with Macgyver techniques with Dr. Ham and learned his tips and tricks to rocking central lines!

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.16.22

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.16.22

This week features an R4 Capstone on “Leading from the Front” with Dr. Ijaz, and overview of thoracic outlet syndrome with Dr. Stothers, two incredible lectures from Dr. Gita Pensa on Litigation Stress and Trial vs. Settlement, and Air Care Grand Rounds with a focus on impella and ECMO transports.

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.20.20

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.20.20

This week we used two papers addressing implicit biases in healthcare as a platform to discuss systematic reviews and meta-analyses in Journal Club. Dr. Dave Thompson then led us through the latest installment of the quality improvement series with insights for how to lead QI initiatives. Dr. Crawford reviewed tick-borne illnesses in her R1 clinical knowledge presentation, and Dr. Modi discussed highlights of management and prognostication of refractory v-fib arrest. Finally, the Air Care team brought us up to speed on a wealth of topics in this edition of the Air Care Grand Rounds series.

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Air Care Series: No Heart, No Problem

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Air Care Series: No Heart, No Problem

Transport of the ECMO patient is no small task, requiring intentional preparation. Join the UC Health Air Care & Mobile Care ECMO transport team to review VA ECMO Basics for Critical Care Transport Medicine.

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.23.19

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.23.19

This week Dr. Banning discussed several practice-changing topics in our Morbidity and Mortality conference. Drs. Laurence and Wolochatiuk prsented their QIKT project for the management of acute, decompensated pulmonary hypertension, and Dr. Wright gave a fascinating presentation on the approach to fever in a returning traveler.

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Air Care Series: No Lung No Problem - VV ECMO

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Air Care Series: No Lung No Problem - VV ECMO

No Lung? No problem! Join Liz Powell, Paige Barger and Adam Gottula as they take a look at the basics of VV ECMO in the transport environment.

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Grand Rounds Recap 1.17.18

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Grand Rounds Recap 1.17.18

This week's Grand Rounds started out with another installment of our leadership curriculum led by Dr. Stettler, where we discussed how to identify and manage finance in leadership.  This was then followed by Dr. Makinen's small group session on thyroid diagnostics in the ED.  Drs. Gauger and Loftus then went head-to-head on a case of syncope, found to have a massive PE.  Dr. Miller then gave a great summary of current thoughts and future approaches to sepsis, followed by Dr. Murphy discussing post-ENT procedure bleeds in the ED.  Dr. Curry then finished off the conference with his "Mastering Minor Care" segment on epistaxis.   

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.15.17

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.15.17

In this week's Grand Rounds, we had the honor of our guest lecturer, ED/critical care pioneer Dr. Kyle Gunnerson, teach us about ED ECMO and implementing the concept of the ED-ICU. That was followed by our Air Care Grand Rounds curriculum with a mix of hands-on practical learning, didactics and simulation sessions.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.19.2017

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.19.2017

This week kicked off with a Tox filled R4 Simulation where we learned about ASA, digoxin, and hydrofluoric acid toxicities. This was followed by lectures on cardiac disease in diabetes, pediatric pain management strategies, physician burnout and hypothermic cardiac arrest. 

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Grand Rounds Recap - 5/25

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Grand Rounds Recap - 5/25

Another month, another M&M, where this month we learned despite a great clinical rationale, there will always be cases that are a wolf in sheep's clothing. Also be sure to check out a review of chest CT indications in pregnancy, pregnancy-induced hypertension, lactate utilization in the ED and a basics course of ECMO - coming soon to an ED near you...

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Grand Rounds Recap - 1/21/15

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Grand Rounds Recap - 1/21/15

Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine: Accidental Hypothermia with Drs. Mudd & Riddle

Grading the Severity of Hypothermia

  • Mild hypothermia is defined as 32-35 °C and symptoms include confusion and diuresis
  • Moderate hypothermia occurs from 28-31°C and is associated with lack of shivering, atrial arrhythmias, and worsening changes in mental status (including paradoxical undressing)
  • Severe hypothermia happens when core body temperature is less then 28 °C and is associated with coma, significant decreases in metabolism, and a very low threshold for V-fib
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