Apr 30, 2017
Author: Dylan Luyten M.D.
Educational Pearls:
- Ashman’s Phenomenon occurs in the setting atrial fibrillation and mimics ventricular tachycardia, but is harmless.
- On ECG, the pattern of Ashman Phenomenon is a long cycle, followed a short cycle, followed by a complex wide complex beat.
- The wide complex beats have right...
Apr 28, 2017
Author: Samuel Killian M.D.
Educational Pearls:
- Lower extremity DVTs are extremely common. There are more left lower extremity DVT due to anatomical variation.
- May-Thurner Syndrome is a form of anatomical variation in which the left iliac artery compresses the left iliac vein.
- Anticoagulation may not be sufficient to...
Apr 26, 2017
Author: Don Stader, M.D
Educational Pearls:
- It is important for providers to know how to use IV drugs properly so that they can instruct their patients on how to avoid injury. Heroin use is increasing.
- Hepatitis, HIV and infection are possible complications of improper IV drug use
- The first step of heroin use is to...
Apr 24, 2017
Author: Peter Bakes, M.D
Educational Pearls
- Intracerebral hemorrhage is an intracranial bleed within the brain tissue or ventricles.
- Subarachnoid aneurysm causes about 50% of all ICH.
- Amyloid deposition can lead to ICH in elderly patients.
- Hypertension is another common cause of atraumatic ICH, commonly leading to...
Apr 22, 2017
Author: JP Brewer M.D.
Educational Pearls:
- The “Quick Wee” was a method to get urine out of infants who need to have a UA in the Emergency Department.
- A randomized-controlled experiment was done with 350 infants between the ages of 1 to 12 months.
- The “Quick Wee” method is taking a sterile saline gauze with...