Have you ever wondered why you get so many epic chats reminding you to use the sepsis order set? Or why you are constantly reminded to reassess the status of your patient to see if they still meet sepsis requirements? Well, there is a…
My TR pearl this week is ethics-related and was inspired by the piece that Charles Sanky sent out last week, “Capacity, Informed Consent and Third-Party Decision-Making” written by Jacob Appel, a Mount Sinai Emergency Psychia…
I know that documenting feels like the bane of our existence most of the time, but it is one of the most important things that we do, for a variety of reasons. The following pearl is going to go through aspects of documentation th…
Ultrasound during cardiac arrest has quickly become standard. Initially, data suggested that the use of ultrasound during arrest increased pauses between compressions which worsens outcomes. To decrease time between compressions, many proto…
Today we’ll be discussing acute kidney injury (AKI). How often are you looking at the Bun/Cr thinking ‘Patient has an AKI’…and then not much more? I’ve done this. While ascertaining the unde…
There are almost 1,000,000 pulmonary embolisms per year. Do all of them need to be admitted? From a dispo standpoint, it can be easier when you’re at larger academic centers to admit or obs them all but the reality is that s…
