Modern Resident

• Board Review: The Use of CT in Children with Head Trauma

  Photo: Wikimedia Commons Originally Published: Modern Resident, Feb/Mar 2011 Original Author: Michael Holman, MSIII Georgetown University School of Medicine Submitted by: Rachel Engle, DO, Communications Committee Chair   Every year, more than 650,000 children are seen in emergency departments across North America for mild head injuries, about half of which will receive CT scans. In […]
• Clinical Pearl: Managing Hypoglycemia in Acute Renal Failure

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2011 Original Author: Cameron McLaughlin, OMS IV Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine Submitted by: Rachel Engle, DO, COmmunication Committee Chair Recently, I saw a patient in the ED who was hyperkalemic and hypoglycemic. The patient was in acute renal failure secondary to Bactrim (TMP-SMX) use for cellulitis. During the first […]
• Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2010 Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee Co-Chair Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the only intervention that has been shown to improve outcomes in comatose patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. TH is now recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) for the treatment of neurological injury when the initial cardiac rhythm […]
• Tox Talks

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2010 Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair Iron toxicity remains a common toxidrome in the emergency department and is the leading cause of pediatric overdose death under age 6. Its antidote, defuroxamine, was recently designated by the Antidote Summit Authorship Group (Ann Emerg Med, Sept. 2009) as a medicine […]
• Tox Talks: Toxic Alcohols

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Oct/Nov 2010  Original Author: Neal Shelley, MD Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair   Just like ethanol, ethylene glycol and methanol cause inebriation and are often ingested by a desperate alcoholic or as a suicide attempt. Whereas ethanol is preferentially metabolized by alcohol dehydrogenase to […]
• Critical Care Pearls: Emergencies Among Mechanically Vented Patients

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, October/November 2010Original Article Author: Sundeep Bhat, MDStanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Rachel Engle, DO (Communications Committee Chair) After successful intubation, the work of an emergency physician is not over! There are several scenarios and trouble-shooting tips for approaching unstable patients who are already mechanically ventilated. For the intubated patient who becomes […]
• Board Review: Methadone Intoxication

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Jun/Jul 2010 Original Author: Dana Kindermann, MD Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Dept. of Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair  Case history: 56 y/o male BIBA, found in apartment by roommate with altered mental status x 24h, found lying in feces. Patient (pt) with multiple substance abuse related admissions and […]
• Board Review: The Pediatric Airway

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Jun/Jul 2010 Original Author: Karen Serrano, MDUniversity of Wisconsin Dept. of Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair  Managing the pediatric airway poses unique challenges for the emergency physician, requiring a good understanding of pediatric anatomy and familiarity with child-specific tools and approaches for emergency airway.Children are more susceptible […]
• EM Today: Updates from the Interview Trail

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, February/March 2010 Original Article Author: Alex Fisher, OMS-IV
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal (Publications Committee Co-Chair) The interview season for EM is over! I’m not going to miss it. Most students would agree that by now, they have had their fair […]
• I Was Just Filling up the Tank, Right? When Erythrocyte Transfusion Goes Awry

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, February/March 2010 Original Article Author: Robert Katzer, MD
 Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal (Publications Committee Co-Chair) Despite a large amount of research on the issue, there is no universally followed set of indications. However, the transfusion of blood and blood products is a hazardous activity, and we all agree […]

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