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Fearsome Foliage - An Overview of Toxic Plants
Spring has sprung... and so have many species of toxic plants! Poison centers across the United States receive over 100,000 reports of exposures to toxic plants annually. It is often difficult for Emergency Medicine providers to determine the quantity and time of exposure. Plant identification presents another challenge, and can even require the input of a botanist. Now that is an interesting consult! Thankfully, some of the more common and/or dangerous plant poisonings have been well-categorized, and are summarized in this post.
Grand Rounds Recap 4.5.23
This week we start off with Dr. Mullen’s lessons from morbidity and mortality conference. This is followed by R1 Dr. Vaishnav with a diagnostics talk on hyperthermia. Dr. Adan walks us through the always terrifying world of laryngectomy patients and finally guest lecturer Dr. Ray Bignall gives an excellent talk on disparities in medicine and how we address them
Annals of B Pod - Opioid-Associated Hearing Loss
Unfortunately, we are all familiar with the dangerous respiratory depression that can occur in opioid overdose; but did you know that opioids can also cause hearing loss? Dr. Kein takes us through two cases of opioid overdoses with associated hearing loss, as seen in B Pod.