Grand Rounds Recap 7.10.24

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.10.24

We started off this week with femoral nerve block case review with Dr. Lori Stolz, followed by our first ever morbidity and mortality conference focused on community practice given by Dr. Hughes. Next, Drs. Boyer and Benoit faced off in the clinical pathologic case lecture. Dr. Moulds covered high yield ophthalmology visual diagnosis, and Dr. Baxter discussed time sensitive vascular pathology. We finished off the day with Drs. Richards and Demel who discussed the operational aspects of stroke care.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.17.24

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.17.24

We started off this week with a lecture and small groups discussing different leadership styles. This was followed up by a fantastic discussion on interpersonal and community violence with Drs. Jarrell and Kimmel. We then reviewed all things early pregnancy ultrasound with the one and only Dr. Stolz and ended with a great review of landmark studies in EM with Dr. Freiermuth.

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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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Yeah, it's Pneumonia, But How Bad is it Really?

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Yeah, it's Pneumonia, But How Bad is it Really?

According to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) in 2018, 1 million patients required hospitalization for pneumonia and there were 50,000 associated deaths. Pneumonia was the leading cause of sepsis and septic shock and not surprisingly therefore qualified in the top 10 most expensive inpatient hospitalizations.(1) Given these findings, some have sought opportunity to develop mechanisms to assess and safely triage pneumonia patients to either inpatient or outpatient treatment strategies based upon pneumonia severity scores. In October 2019, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in conjunction with the ATS published recommendations for the assessment, treatment and disposition of immunocompetent adult patients with community acquired pneumonia which included several clinical decision rules also known as pneumonia severity scores.(2) The recommended decision rules and several associated, emerging tools are reviewed here.

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