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A Helping Hand
III Recaps, Grand Rounds Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed III Recaps, Grand Rounds Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed

A Helping Hand

Medication Assisted Therapy or MAT is a critical component of the care and treatment of patients with opiate use disorder.  Over the course of the past several years, more and more ED providers, have been on the front line of initiating treatment of patients withdrawal symptoms and linking those patients to outpatient resources. In this post, we review the initiation of Buprenorphine based treatment for opiate use disorder in the ED.

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A Headache with Consequences - Temporal Arteritis
III Recaps, Grand Rounds Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed III Recaps, Grand Rounds Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed

A Headache with Consequences - Temporal Arteritis

This will mark the third and final recap of the March 2019 asynchronous small group cases.  Feel free to take a look and listen back at Parts 1 and 2.  This post we’ll be covering the presentation fo a middle aged female with a headache.  The differential is broad and fraught with a number of life/limb/sight threatening diagnoses.  As with the previous recaps, we recorded a podcast where we walk through the presentation, initial work up and management.

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The A Fib Chicken and Egg - III Recap
Grand Rounds, III Recaps Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed Grand Rounds, III Recaps Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed

The A Fib Chicken and Egg - III Recap

This is the first in a series of 3 blog posts recapping our residency’s most recent asynchronous small group exercise.  For these posts, we’ll start with a case vignette and then highlight some key aspects of the presentation and cover some key learning points. You can also take a listen to the accompanying podcast for a slightly more in depth look at the case.

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