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April 7, 2022

ALWAYS ON EM, Season 1, Chapter 5: Newer Medicine for Older Adults

By ejschwartz

Lauren Southerland, MD1; Alexander Finch, MD2; Venkatesh R Bellamkonda, MD2 1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota LINK TO EPISODE: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dps6n-11d9ce7  WHY GERIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS? Traditional emergency medicine is designed around providing acute care to people without significant comorbid conditions, […]

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March 1, 2022

ALWAYS ON EM, Season 1, Chapter 4: Pump it up!

By ejschwartz

Sarah Schettle, PA-C; Alexander Finch, MD; Venkatesh R Bellamkonda, MD EPISODE LINK: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-65dn9-11b6ee3 OVERVIEW LVAD is the acronym used for left ventricular assist devices. These are devices that serve to assist, not replace, the human heart functions – such as to augment the patient’s cardiac output. These devices support the left ventricular function. They involve […]

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August 29, 2021

June Journal Club

By ejschwartz

Dr. Allison Rixey is a chief radiology resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sasha Selby is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sara Hevesi is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. The final Mayo EM residency journal club of the 2020-2021 academic year was held on June 29th. This journal […]

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May 19, 2021

The Emergency Critical Care Series: SCOV2

By ejschwartz

Dr. Samuel Garcia and Dr. Bergthor and Jonsson Dr. Garcia is a PGY-2 in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Jonsson is a PGY-2 in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic. In the ED we resuscitate critically ill patients every day and initiate high quality critical care that is then continued in the ICU. The Emergency […]

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April 7, 2021

Hypothermia

By ejschwartz

Dr. Friederike (Fredi) Froke, D.O. is a PGY-1 in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic EM residency program. Diagnosis and management of hypothermia remains a priority concern by emergency medicine providers when caring for patients with cold exposure. Hypothermia is defined as a core body temperature found to be below 35 degrees Celsius (C). [1] Patients […]

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April 7, 2021

Optimization of Emergency Department Antimicrobials for Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI)

By ejschwartz

Courtney Matthews, PharmD Kellyn Engstrom, PharmD, MPH SSTIs are commonly encountered in the Emergency Department and broad coverage is often started even in cases of uncomplicated disease. A recent study completed by the Veterans Affairs in 2020 with 1828 immunocompetent hospitalized patients analyzed the prescribing practices for uncomplicated SSTIs. Only 14% of these patients received […]

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February 27, 2021

Troubleshooting Tracheostomies

By ejschwartz

Dr. Haefke is a PGY 2 in Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Intro Case: It is 3:00 AM. You are working in a community hospital with no surgical backup. A patient presents with a chief complaint of “Tracheostomy Problem”. You enter the room and see an older gentleman with a tracheostomy in obvious respiratory […]

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January 21, 2021

January Journal Club

By ejschwartz

Dr. Voigt is a PGY-2 in Emergency Medicine Dr. Froke is a PGY-1 in Emergency Medicine Chest pain in the ED is all too often a chief complaint that carries vague associated symptoms and inconclusive workups. Despite EM providers’ best efforts to determine a cause, chest pain is often left without a definitive diagnosis and […]

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January 19, 2021

Dr. Jones on the COVID Vaccine

By ejschwartz

Dr. Derick Jones is an emergency medicine consultant in MCHS Southeast MN and Rochester MN. Dr. Jones is bilingual and shares his reasoning for deciding to get the COVID vaccine for our Spanish speaking patients. See the video at the link below.

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December 31, 2020

November Journal Club

By ejschwartz

Dr. Alex Ginsburg is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sasha Selby is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Jim Homme is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sara Hevesi is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. The fifth Mayo EM residency journal club […]

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