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Drowning Injuries and Diving Medicine
Dr. Dan Popa, EM, Hyperbarics & Undersea Medicine gave a wonderful talk during our virtual conferences on March 26, 2020. The video is presented here for you.
GI Bleeds
All right folks, the chief complaint we all know and love: “rectal bleeding”. It may strike fear in your heart or bring you comfort in its algorithmic approach. However, GI…
Screen record your slideshow
Scott Heinrich created a video showing you how to use QuickTime Player (included with every Mac) to do a screen recording of your computer. You can display your slides (PowerPoint…
Online Didactics
This series of posts covers how we’ll move our didactics from live in-person sessions to online in response to COVID-19 changes. Zoom basics Activate your Rush Zoom account (do this…
Joining a Zoom Meeting
This post is part of a series on how to create an online didactics curriculum for our residency education during the COVID-19 crisis. Once you have Zoom downloaded and have…
Setting up your smartphone for Zoom
This post is part of a series on how to create an online didactics curriculum for our residency education during the COVID-19 crisis. In the previous post, we went over…
Setting up your Rush Zoom Account (do this first)
This post is part of a series on how to create an online didactics curriculum for our residency education during the COVID-19 crisis. Setting up a zoom account and logging…
5 minute Journal Club: shocking Norepi use
Author: Dr. Collin Wulff, DO Study Question: Does early low-dose norepinephrine improve shock control in those with sepsis with hypotension? Design: Mostly good buzzwords here; single center, randomized, double-blind, placebo…
5 Minute Journal Club: NG tube for locating the bleed
Author: Dr. William Slagle Article: Nasogastric Aspiration and Lavage in Emergency Department Patients With Hematochezia or Melena Without Hematemesis Background: This is a paper about GI bleeds and what we…
New Kid on The HyperK Block… Lokelma
Lokelma (Zirconium Cyclosilicate) I’m sure everyone has seen our new friend, Lokelma, on the Rush hyperkalemia order set. Thought it would be fun to do a blog post to discuss…