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On Wednesday 9/17 we’ll have our second Journal Club of the year, presented by Braden Hexom.

We are asking residents to access the following journal club articles by entering the login and password from my email:

Primary discussion: Rajendran et al. Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Cephalexin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Skin Abscesses in a Population at Risk for Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Nov. 2007, p. 4044–4048. PMID: 17846141

Clinical background:  Frazee et al. High Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Emergency Department Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2005. Volume 45, no. 3. PMID: 15726056

Clinical background: Rajendran et al. Antibiotic Use in the Treatment of Soft Tissue Abscesses: A Survey of Current Practice. Surgical Infections 2007 Volume 8, p 237-238. PMID: 17437370

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.

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.

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.