Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club– November 2022 Vignette You are moonlighting in a large community hospital ED one afternoon when youencounter Ms. Y, a pleasant 50-year-old woman with a history of hypertension,hyperlipidemia, and alcohol use disorder. She is complaining of about 12 hours ofepigastric abdominal pain that does not radiate, with associated nausea andnonbloody […]
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The Hestia Score & Outpatient Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club– January 18th, 2023 Vignette You are moonlighting in a large community hospital ED one afternoon when you encounter Mr. X, a pleasant 68-year-old man with a history of non-small cell lung cancer on chemotherapy, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. He complains of sudden-onset left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. He […]
Trans-esophageal ECHO in Cardiac Arrest
Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club – September 22nd, 2022 Vignette: You are working a shift in TCC when you get a pager about a 68-year-old gentleman with a history of atrial fibrillation who was found pulseless after passing out during his weekly golf game. Bystander CPR was initiated and upon EMS arrival his first rhythm […]
The Canadian Syncope Risk Score
Washington University Emergency Medicine Journal Club– October 19th, 2022 Vignette Ms. Jones is a70-year-old female with a history of HTN and type II DM who presents to the ED after a syncopal event which occurred 30 minutes prior to arrival. The event was witnessed by the patient’s husband who states she had collapsed soon after […]
Kindness Meals STL (Links to an external site)
ED staff enjoying the lunch from our Euclid South restaurants
Ivanhoe News Report (Links to an external site)
Ivanhoe News Report
Dr. Naunheim and our Research Coordinators look for new signs of TBI in soldiers (Links to an external site)
ECRC team works with military and partner hospitals to advance safety and concussion testing for today’s military.
Dr. Noelker provides welcome in EMRA’s EM Resident (Links to an external site)
Dear Intern,
Today you looked at me with a face that begged the question, “Am I terrible?” Yes, intern – yes, you are.
Dr. Siegler and Dr. Fuller review of mechanical ventilation in pre-hospital settings (Links to an external site)
Patients who require mechanical ventilation in the prehospital and emergency department environments experience high mortality and are at high risk of ventilator-associated ventilator-induced lung injury and ARDS.
Dr. Tan NAEMSP CPR Challenge (Links to an external site)
Bystander CPR can be critical to survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and EMS professionals are encouraged to help educate the public on CPR best practices by creating their own 100/120 beat-per-minute music videos