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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 Journal Club — Dr. Evelyn Chow (see below for articles)
10am Research Lecture Series — Dr. Ilene Wilets
10:30am Ultrasound of the Week — Dr. Andrew Pleasant
11am Trauma Series: C-Spine injuries and management — Dr. Lauren Post (background reading below)
12pm M&M — Dr. Yoon
1pm Advanced EKG Interpretation — Dr. Alex Kamanetsky

Lunch will be served.

Residents: The following journal club articles are accessible by entering the login and password from my email:

Primary discussion: Hacke, et al. Thrombolysis with Alteplase 3 to 4.5 Hours after Acute Ischemic Stroke. N Engl J Med 2008;359:1317­29. PMID: 18815396.

Clinical background: NINDS rtPA Stroke Study Group. Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke. N Engl J Med 1995;333:1581-7. PMID: 7477192.

Also, please note: Dr. Post has asked that you familiarize yourself with the NASCIS II and NASCIS III trials.

Joe has encapsulated his teaching points from his recent wide-complex tachycardia lecture into a convenient blog format. Thanks, Joe!

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We’ve heard a lot of wisdom in some great lectures about afib managmenet recently, so I wanted to recap some key points and links to resources.

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Our recent guest speaker Wyatt Decker challenged us to examine the usual afib ED treatment in the US, which as Alan noted is: 1) Cardiovert if unstable 2) achieve rate control 3) give heparin and 4) admit.

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This year’s inservice exam will begin at Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium at 9 AM this Wednesday, February 25th.

You will have 4.5 hours to sit for the exam. There are no scheduled breaks.  As in years past, we can expect 225 questions.

Coffee and breakfast goodies will be served beforehand. When you’re done, head on over to Kinsale (3rd Ave between 94th+95th) for drinks and revelry.

Please see my email for links to useful resources down the home stretch. And good luck!

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

This is the last week before the inservice and we’ve prepared a conference heavy on board review and test-taking pearls.

The day’s activities are planned as follows:

8am Joint EM / Cardiology Conference: Wide Complex Tachycardia  — Dr. Joseph Chiang
9am Terror Methods and Management — Dr. Laura Iavicoli
10am Orthopedics Board Review — Dr. Evelyn Chow
11:15 am Inservice Strategy and Tips — Dr. David Cherkas
11:45 am  Toxicology Board Review — Dr. Bing Shen

Lunch will be served. Please note the early start time.

To tackle one of the most controversial aspects to emergency medicine today, Shawn shook up the format of Journal Club and assigned reading to each class. The result? A raucous but informative session where much evidence was covered and many questions raised. Some of the highlights are below. Much of this is lifted from Shawn’s excellent handout at the end of the session — other participants’ opinions are marked as such.

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Stick around after conference this week for a special session with Stephanie W. Ivy, President of EM Practice, the monthly evidence based review of emergency medicine topics.

Ms. Ivy would like to survey the residents about their reading and web habits in an effort to make a better journal. A number of us have worked on this excellent publication, and this may an opportunity for you to make inroads (plus, in the past, Dr. J has been known to make residents’ participation ‘well worth it’….).

Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, February 11th at 9AM in Mount Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium.

This week’s conference will feature a combined faculty / residency review of our fire response, and Dr. Raakhee Mahajan’s senior lecture. Dr. Matt Friedman will also present the EM side of a complex stroke case at EM / Neurology conference.

9am Emergency Preparedness Series — Dr. Kevin Chason et al.
10am M&M — Dr. Alan Huang
11am Senior Lecture: Considerations in Pediatric Airway Management — Dr. Raakhee Mahajan
12pm Joint EM/Neurology Conference — Dr. Matt Friedman
1pm Board Review — Dr. Ram Parekh

Lunch will be served.