Alternatives to Opiates Dr. Swoboda provides alternatives to opiates for pain control. We can all be better stewards of opiates to benefit our patients. High Altitude Illness High altitude illnesses including Acute Mountain Sickness (the other AMS), High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE), High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Flatulent Expulsion (wait, what?!). The…
Here are videos from this week’s zoom conference: Ventilator settings 101 (Patwari) Medications used in COVID-19 (Anthony Renzoni) – slides
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 or Google Slides on full screen mode) and narrate your talk. When the record is done, we can upload it to YouTube. We’re working on…
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 first) Getting Zoom running on your smartphone Joining a Zoom meeting from a link emailed to you Creating content Making online videos on a Mac…
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 signed in on your laptop or your smartphone, This post looks at how to log into a meeting using a link supplied. There are two…
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 how to set up Zoom on your laptop using your Rush credentials. I recommend you do that first and then come back to this post,…
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 in with it allows you to be automatically invited to meetings, go into breakout rooms and have your name appear on your image. You’ll need…
Here are some resources for hyperglycemia based on our session today. First here are RMC’s DKA protocols for adults and pediatric patients. DKA Protocol_2016.06.11 Peds DKA guidelines final 2013 Then some videos (old and new) about DKA and HHS. 2013 DKA and HHS These video review diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar states. The second one…
I hope I never ever have to do this, but these people at the Essentials of EM conference make it look easy. I think this is worth watching. Some points I took away from the video: This is a resuscitative delivery. It is meant to save the mother. The fetus and uterus are diverting a…
