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Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, September 10th at 8AM at Mount Sinai. Conference will begin in conference room GP-2B, next to Hatch, before moving to Hatch Auditorium at 9 AM.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Chair of EM at NYU/Bellevue and Director of NYC Poison Control. There will also be a joint EM / IM lecture featuring Vascular Surgery chief Dr. Peter Faries.

8am Grand Rounds — Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: Alcohol Withdrawal (room GP-2B).
9am Senior Lecture — Dr. Nick Genes: Procedural Sedation
10am Residency Update — Dr. Peter Shearer
11am Simulation Session — Drs. Haru Okuda, Chris Strother, and Bing Shen
12pm EM/IM Joint Conference: Vascular Emergencies — Dr. Peter Faries

Please note the early start time and initial location of conference.

Breakfast will be provided at 7:30. Lunch will be served at noon.

Please join Drs. Peter Shearer, Stuart Kessler, Chris Langan, and more invited faculty and clinical directors from emergency departments across the city, as we learn about the job search process.

Location: Conference Room GP-2C (near Hatch)
Time: Tuesday, 9/9 from 7-10 PM

Bring copies of your CV. Food will be provided.

A special thank you to Evelyn Chow for arranging this evening.

Some notes from last week’s conference:

If Dr. Hill’s presentation on benchmarking, and where our fine hospital(s) and EDs stand in the scheme of things, please get involved. The regular Operations meetings are a good start. Also, if you enjoyed Dr. Baumlin’s brief segment on Ibex (Picis) and coding of charts, well, there are many ways to pursue your interest.

Termination of Resuscitation is an interesting topic that we don’t talk enough about. Lisa mentioned Morrison’s 2006 validation of a TOR rule in NEJM (PMID: 16885551) — the rule being for EMTs with AED training, that resuscitation should be stopped in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest if there is no ROSC, no shocks administered, and no EMS-witnessed arrest. This multicenter trial of 1240 adults would have terminated resus on 776 patients — four of which ended up surviving (three with good neuro outcomes). So this rule’s PPV is 99.5% but there’s a least a few people alive today who are glad it’s not universally applied.

We have new faculty with an interest in appropriate resuscitation — see abstracts here and here.

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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 activities are planned as follows:

9am Core Lecture: Thermal Emergencies - Dr. Scot Hill
10am Research Lecture Series
11am Core Lecture: Derm Emergencies — Dr. Thomas Nguyen
12pm M&M — Dr. Koita
1pm Ultrasound Case of the Month — Dr. Maria O’Rourke
1:30pm EZ-IO inservice

Lunch will be served.