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Grand Rounds Recap 3.20.24
We had an exciting Grand Rounds this week! Dr. Ben Bassin, a UCEM alum and our visiting lecturer from the University of Michigan, started off strong discussing innovation in emergency care delivery. He discussed modeling and design of modern emergency departments and our upcoming Flex ICU. Dr. Grisoli then shared an exciting resuscitation of a profoundly hypothermic cardiac arrest. We split off into small groups for simulation and oral boards covering tuberculosis, meningitis and the RV spiral of death.
'Roids to the Rescue?
Can the addition of high-dose methylprednisolone to the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest make a meaningful difference? In this post-hoc analysis of a placebo-controlled randomized control trial comparing high-dose methylprednisolone versus placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), the authors aimed to assess the hemodynamic effects of prehospital high-dose glucocorticoid treatment in resuscitated comatose OHCA patients.
Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Tricks of the Trach
Successful airway management is one of the cornerstones of every emergency medicine physician’s toolkit, and tracheostomies can often fall under that category of “difficult” or “scary”. In this post, we aim to familiarize learners with the anatomy of the trach airway and basics of trach tubes as well as teach management and troubleshooting of various complications of tracheostomies.