“Airway cart to 9A. Intern, this tube is yours. What meds do you want?”
After the initial self-pulse check and change of scrub pants, two words come to mind: SOAP ME. Not in the literal sense, which may or may not be necessary depending on how nervous one is, but in the handy-dandy-easy-to-remember-in-high-pressure-situations-mnemonic sense. The deer-in-headlights (AKA intern-in-headlights look aside), this edition aims to take a look into an expected adverse reaction with a commonly used rapid sequence intubation (RSI) medication: hyperkalemia associated with succinylcholine administration.
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A 49 y/o M presents with three days of bloody diarrhea, altered mental status and fever...
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Your Myasthenia Gravis patient looks quite short of breath. You know that there are some tests which can help guide your management, but can't quite remember the name....
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Facial trauma is a common emergency medicine complaint. Learn the basics on facial anatomy and how to approach a patient with facial trauma.
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A 64 y/o female presents with two days of "coughing up blood"...
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A 65-year old man is brought to the ED for hallucinations and you see the following on physical exam of his abdomen. What's the diagnosis?
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This week during our Internal Medicine module, Dr. Jillian Smith discussed approach to hemoptysis. Read ahead for highlights of this very informative talk....
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