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Grand Rounds Summary - July 15

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African Tick Borne Illness

  • Rickettsial illnesses (specifically Africae)
  • Empiric doxycyline & ID consultation for presumed tickborne illnesses
  • Rickettsia africae classically presents 4-7 days post exposure with thromobocytopenia and hyponatremia

Hypothermic cardiac arrest

  • Fixing the temperature is the most critical thing
  • EKG findings of Osborne waves in hypothermia
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Grand Rounds Summary - July 1

Dr. Miller - How to Give a Lecture

Keep your presentation simple. Remember that good artists borrow and great artists steal. Find presenters that inspire you.

Know your audience and environment

P3: Prepare, Practice, Pitch

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Interpretation of Cervical Spine CT's

It's 6pm in the ED on a sunny summer afternoon- you're working as a single coverage physician at a level 3 trauma center.  You are noticing an uptrend in the trauma patients being brought in over the past few hours. While log rolling yet another patient, an EMS provider tells you that they have been making runs nonstop- all of the hospitals downtown are overloaded, and it doesn't look like it will slow down anytime soon. Your modest trauma bay is already full, and you're starting to sweat about the state of the department- there are 4 patients in the pod you haven't even seen yet, 2 with abnormal vital signs.

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