What's the Diagnosis? By Dr. Chris Smith
A 31 yo male presents with left thumb pain after a dirt bike crash.
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Paraneoplastic Dermatoses
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Back to basics is switching it up and bringing you some advanced material today. Patient have a weird rash and you can't figure it out? Consider a paraneoplastic dermatosis!
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Back to Basics: Cholecystitis
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A few minute review of inflammation of the ole bile bag (aka cholecystitis).
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Rectus Sheath Hematoma
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What is the rectus sheath? How does one get a hematoma there? And how do we manage it?
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Back to [statistics] basics - Reliability
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Always good to review principles of statistics. Here we discuss reliability and the kappa score -
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Stats Review: Likelihood Ratios
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Back to STATISTICS basics... a brief review of likelihood ratios for those of us who routinely forget how to use them
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#EMConf - Lactate for Pregnant Women in Septic Shock?
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Dr. Christopher Smith takes a deep dive into the literature to find out if lactic acid in septic shock can be used the same in pregnant women as non-pregnant women.
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Back to Basics: Succinylcholine and Hyperkalemia
“Airway cart to 9A. Intern, this tube is yours. What meds do you want?”
After the initial self-pulse check and change of scrub pants, two words come to mind: SOAP ME. Not in the literal sense, which may or may not be necessary depending on how nervous one is, but in the handy-dandy-easy-to-remember-in-high-pressure-situations-mnemonic sense. The deer-in-headlights (AKA intern-in-headlights look aside), this edition aims to take a look into an expected adverse reaction with a commonly used rapid sequence intubation (RSI) medication: hyperkalemia associated with succinylcholine administration.
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