Patwari Academy videos: Presenting patients in the ED

Doing well on your Emergency Medicine rotation, whether you are a medical student or resident, will depend in large part on your ability to deliver a coherently concise presentation to the senior resident or attending physician. It's about telling a story that fits into the construct of how the expert physician thinks.

If you ask 20 attendings physicians what the perfect presentation is like, you'll get 40 different answers. I know, frustrating. Rahul's video describes a reasonable approach and thought process.

We've also covered this hot topic on this blog:

• The 3-minute presentation
• Improve your public speaking skills

Related links:
1. Teaching Residents from Other Services: EM-RAP Educators Edition
Rob Rogers (@EM_Educator) and Michelle Lin (@M_Lin)

2. Medical Student Presentation
Rob Rogers (@EM_Educator), George Willis, and Adam Friedlander 

3. How to give a good ED Presentation

Steve Carroll (@embasic)

4. How to think like an emergency medicine physician
Reuben Strayer (@emupdates)

Patwari Academy videos: Primary and secondary assessment

Deer in headlights

That was me as a medical student, when I first encountered an undifferentiated patient in moderate distress. The trick is to have a standardized primary and secondary survey approach. Sometimes it takes just a little kick-start to get you thinking and doing.

More great videos by Dr. Rahul Patwari:

Patwari Academy videos: ACLS and post-resuscitation care

This is the last installment of Dr. Rahul Patwari's digital whiteboard video talks on ACLS, specifically focusing on post-resuscitation care and therapeutic hypothermia.

• Parts 1-3 (ACLS and airway)
• Parts 4-6 (ACLS: cardiac arrest)
• Parts 7-10 (ACLS: bradycardias and tachycardias)

Patwari Academy videos: ACLS (parts 7-10)

What is the definition of bradycardia and tachycardia in the 2010 ACLS guidelines, for the purposes of resuscitation algorithms?

• Bradycardia: heart rate < 50 bpm
• Tachycardia: heart rate > 150 bpm

Below are the next 3 video installments of Dr. Rahul Patwari's digital whiteboard talks on ACLS. These videos cover both bradycardias and tachycardias.

Patwari Academy videos: ACLS (parts 4-6)

Below are the next 3 video installments of Dr. Rahul Patwari's digital whiteboard talks on ACLS. These videos cover:

• Cardiac arrest (Vfib and Vtach)
• Cardiac arrest (More of Vfib and Vtach)
• Cardiac arrest (Asystole and PEA)

I love that each video is less than 15 minutes long. Also, even if you aren't a medical student, these are great refreshers. For instance, don't forget that atropine is no longer on the 2010 ACLS algorithm for asystole.

Patwari Academy videos: ACLS and the Airway

ACLS Lite: Introduction

This above video is a 2-minute introductory video on the ACLS video series. Below are the first 2 (Airway) of 11 video discussions on the various elements of the ACLS.

New video series for med students: The "Patwari Academy"

Similar to Salman Khan of the Khan Academy, which is famous for "flipping the classroom", Dr. Rahul Patwari is a one-man innovating machine at Rush University's Department of Emergency Medicine. He has been creating digital whiteboard "chalktalks" on common EM conditions for the past year, which target the senior medical student. These 2-15 minute videos are way too amazing not share with the EM community of learners. I bet these would be really great supplemental learning material for EM medical students everywhere.

The above video (Status Epilepticus) is the first of a series of at least 40 videos thus far.

Thanks to Rahul for graciously allowing me to embed and share these videos. I'll be posting about one of his videos per week.