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Happy Turkey Week
The blogging team will be taking a brief hiatus during this Thanksgiving holiday break. We give thanks for all our amazing readers out there.
Best place to suffer a cardiac arrest?
What's the best place to suffer cardiac arrest? Seattle? Las Vegas? Who's going to give me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? Will someone know how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED)?
What is the BEST place to experience a cardiac arrest???
As luck would have it, the best place would be at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. On the first day of Scientific Assembly, an exhibitor collapsed in the convention center without a pulse. At a conference with thousands of emergency physicians, several Good Samaritans immediately sprung into action. An attendee used a CPR mask while another operated an AED. They were able to revive their patient, where he is reportedly doing well at a local hospital.
Congratulations to Drs. David Pigott, Jared Shell, Jerry Edwards and everyone else involved on a job well done!
Click here for the story.
Happy 4th of July weekend
Happy fourth of July weekend!
Enjoy this 30 second video of a 15-minute fireworks show in San Diego that mistakenly launched all at one time.
Wow.
On vacation
Had an exciting week making new friends and learning about hot topics in Emergency Medicine at our department's UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii conference.
Will be back next Friday!
Seasons greetings and happy new year!
We will be on a brief hiatus to count our blessings, reflect back on the year, and revel in good cheer. Happy holidays!
See you in 2012!
Happy Turkey Week!
In the holiday spirit of gluttony and giving thanks, we at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine are taking the whole week off to indulge in great food with great company.
Vacation: No post today
Self-imposed, vacation day.
I'm declaring today as one of many national "Wellness" days. Have a great weekend.
Sorry for the no-post.
Keep a look out for Dr. Stella Yiu's upcoming poll regarding a student's behavior: "What you do if YOU were on the residency selection committee?"
No post today
Self-imposed, mandatory, spontaneous ski trip.
I'm declaring today as one of many national "Wellness" days.
Be well.
Sorry for the no-post.
Sorry for the no-post.
The Superbowl of Blogs: Vote us for "Best Clinical Sciences Blog"
Our blog was nominated for the Best New Medical Blog last year, but got our butt kicked.
This year, we're honored to be a finalist in the Best Clinical Sciences Blog category. That's the great news. Unlucky for us, we are in the same category as the juggernauts EMCrit (also nominated in the overall Best Medical Blog category) and Resus.M.E. I do love the fact that the EM specialty is dominating with 3 finalists in this list of 5.
Vote now in the Best Clinical Sciences Blog category!
Read more about each blog finalist at MedGadget. You can also vote in the other individual polls:
- Best Medical Blog
- Best New Medical Blog
- Best Literary Medical Blog
- Best Health Policy/Ethics Blog
- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog
- Best Patient's Blog
Holiday break: Dec 22-Jan 2
Happy a safe and wonderful holiday season.
Will be back on January 3, 2011!
Humorous video: Trying to admit a patient
One of the downsides of practicing in the Emergency Department is trying to convince an admitting service that a patient should be admitted to their service. Here's a funny take on the problem.
Happy Turkey Day!
Will need to think of some Tricks of the Trade for weight loss...
Signing off until Monday, November 29, 2010.
Oct 11-18: Disconnected from the internet
Apologies for the lapse in blog postings this upcoming week. Every once in a while, you just have to take a break and recharge. In the meantime, feel free to look through some of the older postings. There are over 300 postings, sorted by tags for your convenience (in right column).
Will be back on October 19, 2011.
Life of an Attending: Is this or will this be you?
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Check out this drawing depicting "Life of an Attending" from the perspective of the residents. I'm still chuckling about the Money Angels.
Happy Memorial Day
What was Memorial Day previously named?
Decoration Day -
because of the practice of decorating soldier's graves with flowers
May 17-21: Disconnected from the internet
Apologies for the lapse in blog postings this week. I'm off-line for a week to recharge and get new ideas for the blog. I also need to save up energy before a whole new army of new interns and residents descend upon our ED at San Francisco General Hospital. I may go into internet withdrawal, but I have a feeling that I will survive...
Will be back on May 24.
What's in your pocket on an ED shift?
I am always curious about what people carry in their scrubs and lab coat pockets. Often you can identify residents based on what they are carrying or wearing. Stereotypically, I find the following:
- Long reflex hammer jutting way out of the lab coat pocket - Neurology
- Plaster smears on their scrub tops and bottoms - Orthopedics
- Fluffy animal on their stethoscope and/or lab coat - Pediatrics
- LMP wheel - Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Small textbook in lab coat pocket - a medical student
What do I carry?
Starting from at the upper left of the photo and moving clockwise:
- Electronic stethoscope
- iPhone (I mainly use the visual acuity chart app and calculator)
- Intake pad to document ED referrals from primary care physicians
- 3-4 pre-printed Vicodin prescriptions. Because we prescribe these like crazy, I often write a few up just before starting my shift to save time.
- Small bottle of unused 1% lidocaine
- Bright LED flaslight
- LED flashlight holster, which I hook onto my scrub pants
- Pen - which I quickly lose within 2 hours of my shift
- My "peripheral brain" on color index cards with various algorithms, literature guidelines, diagrams, and facts to help me teach residents and students on shift. The top card currently displays the acetaminophen metabolism pathway and facts about acetaminophen toxicity.
- Sanford Guide to antimicrobial therapy
- Pocket Pharmacopoeia
- Trauma shears (not shown because I just realized that I'm still wearing them - I just got off shift!)
What do you put in your pockets for an ED shift?
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