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Time is on Our Side
You just got done with the most precarious of intubations, but while patting yourself on the back, you note that beeping saturation tone is continuing its decline. Did the tube get dislodged? Was it ever in the cords? Take a step into the plight of oxygen and pulse oximetry with our physiologic guru Dr Steve Carleton
Grand Rounds Recap 10.12.2016
Check out this week's Grand Rounds Recap where we reviewed coagulation studies and joint fluid analysis, learned about torsades, asthma, bronchiolitis, the perils of anesthetics in LAST and more!
Crash and Burn: The Approach to the MVC Patient
Certain pathology gets a lot of attention in medical school. Stroke? Sure! Tests love asking about which vessel is blocked based on clues from the physical exam. And rightly so; a fund of medical knowledge is certainly valuable when it comes to identifying pathology such as this. However, when faced with a problem like blunt trauma, i.e. the “MVC”, one may find that there are also many practical and logistical factors that require bedside experience, ranging from marshaling of resources to reconciling patient presentation with reported mechanism of injury...