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Stress & Exercise
Autumn is here -- the air is getting crisper, the days are getting shorter, and there’s no better time to get outside. It will likely come as no surprise that a sedentary lifestyle negatively impacts mood.
Grand Rounds Recap 9.21.2016
This week we learned about all the hardware that can go into our patient's CNS and how it can go wrong. We also heard about complications of Varicella infection, set out to optimize visualization of a needle on US, learned to give better feedback to the difficult learner, heard about ED super-utilizers and strategized about ventilator management.
Airways, like Martinis, are Best "Dry"
Have you ever looked down the blade of a laryngoscope and said to yourself, “Damn! This airway is just too dry!” I thought not. Rather, we often look down the blade into a mucky swamp of secretions that drip from the pharyngeal walls like drool from a big, sloppy dog, and often obscure familiar landmarks and goop-up our optical and video adjuncts. Is there no solution? There is! Let us review an illustrative case...