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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.

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.

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 Research Lecture Series — Non-Experimental Designs — Dr. Lynne Richardson
9am Journal Club — Dr. Shen (see below for articles)
10am Critical Care Lecture — Dr. Scott Weingart
11am Trauma Series — Dr. Fasina
12pm M&M — Dr. Bentley
1pm Senior Leadership Seminar with Dr. Stuart Kessler (optional)

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

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

Primary discussion: Ohlmann P, et al. Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating D-Dimers in patients with acute aortic dissection. Crit Care Med. 2006 May;34(5):1358-64. PMID: 16557157.

Clinical background: Sodeck G et al. D-dimer in ruling out acute aortic dissection: a systematic review and prospective cohort study. Eur Heart J. 2007 Dec;28(24):3067-75. PMID: 17986466.

Optional additional clinical background from JAMA’s Rational Clinical Exam Series: Klompas M. Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection? JAMA. 2002;287(17):2262-2272. PMID: 11980527.

Please join us for Simulation Sessions this Wednesday morning, July 30, at Mount Sinai.

Half the residency will participate in Sim sessions from 9 am to noon, and the other half will be involved from noon to 3 PM. Please see my email(s) about specific group assignments. The overview is below:

• – Group A (Mostly Interns) — Peds Sim at 9 AM in the ED Conference Room, Adult Sim at 10:30 AM in Hatch
• – Group B (Mostly PGY-3) — Adult Sim at 9 AM in Hatch, Peds Sim at 10:30 AM in ED Conference Room
• – Group C (Mostly seniors) — Peds at Noon in the ED Conference Room , Adult Sim at 1:30 PM in Hatch
• – Group D (Mostly PGY-2)  — Adult Sim at Noon in Hatch, Peds Sim at 1:30 PM in the ED Conference Room

Additionally, lunch will be served outside Hatch auditorium around 11:30.