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Another fine conference at the ‘hurst; thanks to our presenters — Matt C, Dr. Chung, Dr. Ginsburg, Dr. Iavicoli, and Dr. Chason, and thanks to all for the good turnout.

Let’s start with Tox, since we had a brief preview (perhaps too brief) of our new cyanokit and its use. More below:

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The residency is sponsoring a happy hour this coming Tuesday at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria . For those of you who aren’t familiar, this place is a NYC landmark because it has the last original beer garden in all of NYC and was voted best outdoor bar by New York Citysearch (in 2005 — but it’s still highly ranked). It’s just a couple minutes walk from the N train. All residents, faculty and med students rotating in the ED this month are invited.

Date: Tuesday, August 26
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 29-19 24th Ave, Astoria
Directions by subway: Take the N to Astoria Blvd. (one stop before the last - Ditmars Blvd.). Walk 1 block to the intersection of 24th Avenue and 31st Street. The beer garden is located between 29th Street and 31st Street.

Dr. Wang adds: During the summers they have an outdoor grill - grilling up all sorts of sausages and stuff that would be expected at a German joint. Only a handful of beers on tap, but very much in the traditional German Pilsner style.

Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, August 27th at 9AM in Mount Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium.

The day’s planned events are as follows:

9 am Administrative Series: Performance Benchmarking - Dr. Scot Hill
10 am M&M — Dr. Lisa Jacobson
11 am Peds M&M — Dr. Yoon
12 pm Peds Core: Trauma — Dr. Lori Montagna
1 pm Core Lecture: Wound Management — Dr. John Bruns

Lunch will be served.

Residents: Dr. Bruns has suggested this March 2005 article from the EM Practice journal as a good background for his talk.  It’s accessible by entering the login and password from my email.

At last, videos of the Dix-Hallpike and Epley maneuvers are discussed, in video form — via McGraw-Hill’s AccessMedicine website (where Tintinalli is also online). Maybe this will cut down on their interchangeability in clinical parlance! Since the audio is horrible, EM Practice has a nice description of the Dix-Hallpike test from their 2001 Dizziness issue (see below):

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Please join us this week for Emergency Medicine Departmental Conference, in the 8th floor conference room at Elmhurst Hospital.

The day’s planned events are as follows:

8 am    Cardiology Joint Conference — Dr. Constantine
9 am    Cyanokit Inservice
9:30 am Toxicology: Hypoglycemics — Dr. Beth Ginsburg
10:30 am    Core Lecture: Hyperbaric Emergencies — Dr. Sujin Chung
11:30 am    Disaster Lecture Series: Hospital Preparedness Plans — Drs. Kevin Chason & Laura Iavicoli

Lunch will be served at 11:30. Please note the start time.

There’s lots of new and good stuff under the “Blog” tab above — some post-conference and post-sim discussion points, and recent journal club recaps (on d-dimer for dissection, and clevidipine for HTN — thanks, Marisa!). I’ve also posted a summary, with links, to much of Dr. Hollander’s lecture on NSTEMI risk stratification, and ED management of ACS. He said plenty of insightful things but I know many of you had questions — check it out.

Also our Grand Rounds library has grown to three lectures — give it a listen (mp3’s are available under the “Conference” tab).

An Adobe PDF of Dr. Okuda’s Elective Submission Form is available under the “Policies” tab above, or by clicking this link. Please fill it out and drop it off in his Sinai mailbox at least two weeks prior to the start of your planned elective.

Thanks to Braden, Raghu, Dr. Beattie, Dr. Kessler, and many others, the Elmhurst ED has been reorganized to enhance patient care and resident learning. The changes have been described in a file under the “Polices” tab above.  Briefly, below, is a summary:

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Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, August 13th at 9AM in Mount Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Eric Legome, Chair of St. Vincent’s Emergency Department. We will also be featuring innovative lectures from Drs. Wolfram Chynoll and Deborah Marin.

9am    Grand Rounds — Dr. Eric Legome
10am    Administrative Lecture Series — Drs. Wolfram Schynoll & Deborah Marin
12pm    Pedatric Core Lecture: Rashes — Dr. Sylvia Garcia
1pm    Pediatric M&M — Dr. Kumar

Lunch will be served and some breakfast amenities will be provided. Additionally, there will be a resident feedback session immediately following conference. Finally, more photos of our residents will be taken — so if you haven’t had your closeup yet, please dress appropriately.