Conference 8/6
Please join us this week for Emergency Medicine Departmental Conference, in the 8th floor conference room at Elmhurst Hospital.
The day’s activities are planned as follows:
8am Research Lecture Series — Non-Experimental Designs — Dr. Lynne Richardson
9am Journal Club — Dr. Shen (see below for articles)
10am Critical Care Lecture — Dr. Scott Weingart
11am Trauma Series — Dr. Fasina
12pm M&M — Dr. Bentley
1pm Senior Leadership Seminar with Dr. Stuart Kessler (optional)
Lunch will be served. Please note the early start time.
Residents: The following journal club articles are accessible by entering the login and password from my email:
Primary discussion: Ohlmann P, et al. Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating D-Dimers in patients with acute aortic dissection. Crit Care Med. 2006 May;34(5):1358-64. PMID: 16557157.
Clinical background: Sodeck G et al. D-dimer in ruling out acute aortic dissection: a systematic review and prospective cohort study. Eur Heart J. 2007 Dec;28(24):3067-75. PMID: 17986466.
Optional additional clinical background from JAMA’s Rational Clinical Exam Series: Klompas M. Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection? JAMA. 2002;287(17):2262-2272. PMID: 11980527.
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