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Please join us for conference next Wednesday in the 8th floor conference room at Elmhurst. Please note the early start time and be on time for our monthly joint conference with cardiology.

8a - Joint Cardiology Conference - Dr. Cho
9a - US Case of the Month - Dr. Havryliuk
9:30a - Human Rights Violations - Dr. Chisolm Straker and Dr. Bentley
10a - US and Critical Care - Dr. Andrus
11a - Toxicology Series - Dr. Olmedo
12p - ECG Conference - Dr. Kamenetsky

Lunch will be served.

Thanks to Dr. Hill for these important summary points from today’s M&M.
For those who missed, these were some of the take-home points:

- You, the emergency physicians, are the trauma experts. Do not rely on hospital protocols and consultants to manage the case.

- Do a complete primary survey and intervene as needed.

- If you intubate, see an x-ray post intubation

- Do a complete secondary survey- this includes a full body exam, includes the back, abdomen and chest, includes palpation for fractures. Rectal (for gross blood), tubes

- Don’t get stuck focusing on the most obvious injury and fall victim to “early closure” error

- If you have the resources, FAST, Hct or GEM

- Document- DOCUMENT- your full exam- FULL EXAM- and ultrasound findings.

- Traumatic arrest is rarely a survivable disease regardless of cause. Arrest from abdominal trauma is essentially non-survivable.

Thanks-

And try to make the next M and M.

Please join us for conference this Wednesday in Hatch Auditorium. We begin with Grand Rounds at 9am and are joined by Dr. David Caro from University of Florida - Jacksonville to discuss Neurologic Trauma.

9a - Grand Rounds - Dr. Caro
10a - Asthma - Dr. Nelson
11a - Senior Lecture - Dr. Constantine
12p - Pediatric M&M - Dr. Green
1p - Management of Post SCI Patients in the ED - Dr. Bloomgarden

As usual, lunch will be served.