Dr. Sara Hevesi is an EM consultant in Rochester, MN The second Mayo EM residency journal club of the year met on August 8th, hosted by Chief Resident Dr. Maria Kaisler. We reviewed the classic NINDS trial for using tPA in ischemic strokes, an SGEM review critically appraising the evidence behind [...]

By: Ashley Jacobson, MD Dr. Jacobson is a resident physician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. As more and more people explore the outdoors with summer and quarantine, physicians must refresh snakebite presentations and treatment options. 2018 data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers documented a reported 7,110 snakebites (including [...]

Dr. Ashley Jacobson, MD Summer heat making you feel more exhausted than normal? Or has COVID quarantine encouraged you to spend more time on mountain trails instead of staying indoors? Here are a few tips as we round out summer. Heat illness is a spectrum of disease that ultimately culminates into heatstroke. [...]

Dr. Sara Hevesi and Dr. Maria Kaisler Dr. Hevesi is a consultant at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Kaisler is a PGY-3 and chief resident at Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine Residency in Rochester, MN. The inaugural Mayo EM residency journal club met for the first time on July 13th, hosted [...]

Emily Woods, MD Dr. Woods is an emergency physician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN and SE MN. This study was recently published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The objective was to evaluate Mayo Clinic Emergency Department's already established scribe program on throughput and revenue capture while Mayo Clinic underwent EMR transition. We [...]

Emily Woods Dr. Woods is an Emergency Physician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and South-East Minnesota Palliative care has been identified as an area of low outpatient referral from our emergency department, yet palliative care has been shown to improve the quality of patient’s lives. This study investigates both provider and patient perspectives [...]

Caitlin Brown, PharmD and Alicia Mattson, PharmD Dr. Brown and Dr. Mattson are pharmacists at Mayo Clinic in the Emergency Department. With the rapidly increasing population of individuals aged 65 years and older, pain management in the emergency department (ED) has become much more complex. Many of the medications we use to treat [...]

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Authors: Jana L. Anderson, MD and Lucas Oliveira J. e Silva, MD Dr. Anderson is a pediatric emergency physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Silva is a research fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. The emergency department is the front line [...]

Lucas Oliveira J. e Silva, MD Lucas is a research fellow in the Department of Emergency at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. The number of emergency department (ED) visits by older adults continuously increases.[1] Older patients have unique needs, and strategies to optimize their individual care are have to be developed. Since 2014, the [...]

Author: Isabella Lichen Comment on Lichen et al. Non-pharmacologic interventions improve comfort and experience among older adults in the Emergency Department. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020. Older adult 65 years of age and older are 16% of the US population, but they comprise 45% of emergency department (ED) visits. These [...]

Author: Mark Mannenbach, MD @MMannenbach My memory of the small boy with dark eyes and curly hair comes back quickly as the medical students I am working with share what they are thinking and what they would do next. I saw him first on a busy evening shift along with a new [...]