Conference 5/6
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 Joint EM / Cardiology Conference — Dr. Shefali Trivedi
9am Journal Club — Dr. Ram Parekh (see article below)
10am Research Lecture Series — Dr. Alex Manini
10:30am Potpourri — Drs. Lakoff and Holland
11am Trauma Conference — Dr. Scott Weingart (see link below)
12pm M&M — Dr. Kanika Gupta
We’ll also be featuring Amanda Holland’s CPC presentation and Daniel Lakoff’s surprising, disturbing ultrasound images.
Lunch will be served. Please note the early start time.
Residents: The following journal club article is accessible by entering the login and password from my email.
Hollander, J.E., et al. Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Rapid Discharge of Low-Risk Patients With Potential Acute Coronary Syndromes. Annals of Emergency Medicine. March 2009 (Vol. 53, Issue 3, Pages 295-304). Abstract.
Ram has not asked for a background reading requirement. However, enterprising residents might consider reviewing Hollander’s previous research in this field, or the last time we discussed coronary CT scans in journal club.
Dr. Weingart’s background reading for trauma conference is also available online using the same login and password.
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on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 6:17 am by Nick. Filed under
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