Looking for some practical opioid pearls for your clinical practice? This week Dr. Eric Gruber continued the Cooper EM generated Substance Abuse Curriculum, focusing on opioid toxicities and overdose complications.
How do you safely disposition your low-risk chest pain patients? This week for his Critically Appraised Topic, Dr. Michael Coletta investigated the safety and accuracy of accelerated diagnostic protocols for low-risk chest pain patients presenting to the ED.
Are you maximizing your technique to provide optimal CPR? This week Dr. Brian Roberts shared excellent take-home tips to remember when performing CPR.
This past week Dr. Mallemat (@CriticalCareNow) shared his wisdom and approach to patients suffering from undifferentiated shock. Keep reading for some very practical pearls!
Have you ever attemped a trigger point injection to improve your patient's musculoskeletal pain? Did it help? This week for his Critically Appraised Topic, Dr. John Cafaro investigated some of the literature on the effectiveness of trigger point injections for patients suffering from musculoskeletal pain.
Do you routinely recommend rest for your post-concussive pediatric patient? You may reconsider this adivce. This week Dr. Lou Argentine reviewed this clincal question for his critically appraised topic.
Have you cared for a paient dying from traumatic hemorrhagic shock despite maximum resucitation efforts? Dr. Zaffer Qasim from Christiana Care and @emmeddoc joined us for an outstanding talk on the use of REBOA in this patient population.
How should we manage a suspected line infection in a dialysis patient? This week our great nephrology team provided us pearls regarding catheter related bloodstream infections in addition to other valuable renal associated tips.
Are you unsure if you can use D-dimer testing to aid in the diagnositic evaluation for DVT/PE in the pregnant patient? This week's Critically Appraised Topic in conference discusses the use of trimester-specific D-dimer threshold testing in pregnant patients.
Snow day for the Cooper EM Residents! Instead of today's conference pearls we finish out our trauma/orthopedic module from January with a high yield summary of clinically useful hand pearls from our awesome new hand surgeon Dr. Nicole Jarrett's lecture!
