A handy guide for fish hook removal
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Check out an article Dr. Patterson and colleagues recently published. Learn about an unusual POCUS finding!
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It’s summer and that means it’s time to think about tick bites!
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Summer is fast approaching, and temperatures are rising. Heat-related illnesses will start to present to the department. They account for 600 deaths annually in the US.
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This post is in celebration of Women’s History Month! Get to know a few of the amazing women in our department and learn more about what Women’s History Month means to them.
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This post discusses some of the current outpatient treatment options for Covid-19. Also included is Dr. Orban’s personal experience with covid and information about Covid-19 research studies being conducted by researchers within our Department, including ACTIV-6, an NIH sponsored study looking at outpatient treatment options for Covid-19.
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Join us as we walk through the utility of using ultrasound to evaluate traumatic injury to the knee, picking up findings that X-ray might miss
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Dr. Jason Wilson revisits the use of fluvoxamine in the treatment of Covid-19. He discusses an exciting study recently published in Lancet Global Health that may change how doctors are treating Covid-19.
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Morgan Uebelacker offers a guest post detailing how to utilize point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency setting to diagnose aortic stenosis
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Dr. Barnathan discusses the importance of “owning the code” and maintaining the dignity of human life. He describes his approach and the importance of decompressing after the loss of a patient.
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Syncope is a common complaint among patients visiting the ER. In this blog, physicians discuss an abnormal ECG in a patient with a history of prior repaired Tetralogy of Fallot. Initially, the ECG may look like RBBB morphology but a more sinister finding seems to be hiding in the complexes, making the patient prone to potentially fatal arrhythmias.
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Dr. Priddy and colleagues present a case of coral snake envenomation and discuss current recommendations regarding management
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Dr. Wesley Priddy walks us through a photographic recap of the USF Airway Day 2021
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Dr. Costers takes us through his experience scalloping with the Wilderness Medicine elective and discusses the effects of red tide
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Dr. James Gillen shares a personal story highlighting his family’s medical emergency. In Dr. Gillen’s own words, “We are not defined by our challenges, but we are defined by how we handle them, and how we recover afterward..”
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Drs. Dumas and Beau discuss awake and facilitated intubations. The authors simplify the technique into basic steps and discuss a patient who directly benefitted from using a facilitated intubation approach.
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Our department is incredibly proud of Dr. Ryan McKenna who was awarded the USF MCOM Outstanding GME Faculty Award this year. Learn more about why Dr. McKenna was chosen to be this year’s recipient.
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Dr. Jillian Kiely, PGY 1, discusses two umbilical cord-related emergencies that ER providers may encounter during emergency deliveries. There’s a problem with the cord! Now what?
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Emerging evidence suggests cardiac velocity time integral (VTI), a measurement obtained by ultrasound, can be used to predict fluid responsiveness in hypotensive patients. Dr. Hansen reviews VTI and how to start using it!
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This post features a recently published case report demonstrating an Epsilon wave in a cardiac arrest patient. Learn more about this ECG abnormality and some of the etiologies which may cause this finding.
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