November 6, 2020
By ejschwartz
Dr. Ashley Jacobson is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Alexis Del Vecchio is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sara Hevesi is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Neha Raukar is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Tobi Kummer is an emergency […]
November 2, 2020
Spinal or Spiral? Diagnostic Dilemmas in the Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
By ejschwartz
Brandon Haefke, MD Dr. Haefke is a PGY-2 Emergency Medicine resident in Rochester, MN at the Mayo Clinic. Intro Case: A 36-year-old male with no significant previous medical history presents to the ED with a headache. He describes a convincing thunderclap onset. You obtain a head CT without contrast that is normal. However, his headache […]
October 9, 2020
By ejschwartz
Dr. Ashley Jacobson is an emergency medicine resident physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Sara Hevesi is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. Dr. Neha Raukar is an emergency medicine consultant physician in Rochester, MN. The third Mayo EM residency journal club of the year met on September 16, hosted by consultant physician, Dr. […]
September 29, 2020
Under Pressure!: Acute Blood Pressure Management in Emergency Medicine
By ejschwartz
Bergthor Jonsson, Cand. Med. Dr. Jonsson is a second year emergency medicine resident at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN Acute blood pressure management in the emergency department is in my mind one of the most confusing and controversial topics in emergency medicine. Different blood pressure targets have been proposed for a variety of emergency medical […]
September 21, 2020
Dr. Luke Wood demonstrating placement of a Minnesota Tube
By ejschwartz
https://vimeo.com/460295017 Please see the above link to watch Dr. Luke Wood demonstrate placement of a Minnesota Tube for massive uncontrolled GI hemorrhage.
September 8, 2020
By ejschwartz
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 tPA (http://thesgem.com/2020/07/sgem297-tpa-advocates-be-like-never-gonna-give-you-up/), and the […]
September 5, 2020
By ejschwartz
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 nonvenomous bites) resulting […]
September 3, 2020
By ejschwartz
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. Heatstroke separates into […]
August 12, 2020
By ejschwartz
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 by Dr. Sara Hevesi […]
July 29, 2020
Impact of scribes on throughput metrics and billing during an electronic medical record transition
By ejschwartz
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 used a […]
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