On December 4th the Department of Emergency Medicine hosted its 11th hands-on ultrasound course at Mount Sinai. Over forty participants practiced critical ultrasound skills on live models and simulators, guided by a dozen of our faculty and…
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently released new guidelines attempting to replace the term apparent-life threatening event (ALTE) with brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE). The term ALTE was somewhat subjectively defined and…
Scenario: The images from your patient’s non-contrast head CT are finally uploaded and it looks negative. Unfortunately, your patient has been having severe symptoms for almost 24 hours and you know this single study is not sensitive…
In honor of 5/20/16, a day in which the Sinai ED managed three cardiac arrest patients in less than one hour, I wanted to post a pearl relevant to one of the cases we saw. Our initial goal during a Vfib arrest resuscitation is to optimize u…
The WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on February 1st, 2016 due to the outbreak of microcephaly and Guillain-Barre Syndrome cases associated with the Zika virus. Here’s a quick review of what we do and do…
I could bullet point plenty of statistics, but I don’t think I have to convince you: there is an opioid epidemic and it is getting worse. We all have treated patients for opioid overdose in the ED. We also frequently identi…
Among the least commonly utilized intubation techniques stands the humble digital intubation. The name says it all: the intubator uses their index and middle finger like a miller blade to locate (by palpation) and lift the epiglottis before…
