Grand Rounds Recap 10.9.19

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.9.19

This week we continued our leadership curriculum with Dr. Pancioli’s lecture on the intersection of leadership and finance. This was followed by Dr. Klaszky with his R4 case follow up of a patient with cardiac tamponade, and then Drs. Baez and Continenza faced off for the most recent installment of our Great Debate series as they discussed chemical vs electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation. Finally, our colleagues from Cincinnati Children’s presented learning pearls about causes of and interventions for hypoxia in pediatrics emergency medicine.

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.8.17

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.8.17

This week, we started things off with a great Quarterly Sim led by our faculty. The oral boards cases, led by Drs Stettler and Roche, involved an acute presentation of holiday heart, a post-partum patient with flash pulmonary edema, and a very questionable spider bite. The simulation, led by Drs Fernandez, Hill and Stolz, focused on two patients that were in shock: one due to a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and one due to a pericardial tamponade. We then moved on to the pediatric side of things, where Dr. Gleimer discussed neonatal rashes, and we took a look at pediatric syncope with Dr. Fananapazir. 

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Grand Rounds Summary 3/9/2016

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Grand Rounds Summary 3/9/2016

Back Pain with Dr. Summers

Of the more than 2.5 million ED cases of back pain every year, roughly 5% of these actually have an emergent cause. Conventional red flags include:

  • Age >50 or <20 yo
  • History of cancer
  • Immunocompromised
  • HIV
  • Steroid use
  • IV Drug Use
  • Known aortic aneurysm
  • Motor neurologic deficit
  • Urinary retention, bowel incontinence, or saddle anesthesia
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