Lauren Murphy, MD
What's the Diagnosis? By Dr. Lauren Murphy
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A 58 yo M develops abdominal pain and hypotension 12 hours following stent placement to the L common iliac and L superficial femoral artery for limb ischemia.
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#EMconf: Obstructive Pyelonephritis
A middle-aged woman with history of unilateral nephrectomy presents with a week of malaise progressing to disorientation, and is found to have a large obstructing kidney stone in her remaining kidney coupled with signs of severe sepsis and renal failure. Read ahead for management tips and additional pearls....
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Back to Basics: "Eye"tis
“EYE”-tis: How to tell the difference between the different “itis”s of the eye!
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Advanced Practice: Pearls for Myasthenia Gravis Intubations
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Whereas the dosing of sedative medications is usually unaffected, the chief concern is whether there should be changes for neuromuscular blockade – will your patient with myasthenia gravis require a higher or lower dose of your selected paralytic?
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Advanced Practice: Respiratory Failure in Myasthenia Gravis Crisis
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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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#EMconf: The (Dis)Utility of the Urine Drug Screen
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The Urine Drug Screen (UDS) is a commonly used test in the emergency department, however there are many shortcomings that limit its diagnostic utility. The Urine Drug Screen is exactly that – a SCREENing and not a confirmatory test! This week Dr. Lauren Murphy educated us on: 1) the potential false positives and negatives of the UDAS and 2) the detection times that drug metabolites are at a concentration in the urine to trigger a positive result (cutoff value). Read ahead for the reference tables!
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#EMconf: Toxic Alcohols
After the awesome RESUS/EM conference last week, we return to our module of the month: Toxicology. This week Dr. Lauren Murphy has summarized the key points of her talk on the toxic alcohols. Knowing a little bit about toxic alcohol ingestion is very useful, as it is a fatal toxicity but treatable when recognized in a timely manner!
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#EMconf: Resus/EM Conference Pearls
Today, EM Daily with Cooper Medical School hosted a number of local residency programs for the first RESUS/EM conference. These fantastic lectures will be available on EM Daily in a couple weeks, but to hold you over, here are some pearls from the day!
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Back to the Basics: Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron) Dermatitis
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As the weather becomes nicer, more people are venturing outside to work on their yards, hike and just take in the sun - and hence, more people are becoming exposed to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. Learn the basic management for toxicodendron dermatitis.
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