Grand Rounds Recap 5.1.24

Grand Rounds Recap 5.1.24

Join us as we recap another excellent week of Grand Rounds. We start with the final installment of our leadership curriculum, where Drs. Hill and LaFollette guide us through the dreaded task of self-promotion. We join Dr. Stark on a moment of self-reflection and growth following a particularly difficult patient case. We are transported into the SRU as Dr. Wright presents the evidence for how we should approach traumatic cardiac arrests in the resus bay. Dr. Adan shares his airway expertise and provides helpful tips/tricks for overcoming the feared anterior airway. Lastly, our colleagues from pharmacy drop by to discuss some relevant updates- including reasons why you should think twice before ordering a urine culture in the ED.

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Grand Rounds Recap 2.7.24

Grand Rounds Recap 2.7.24

Join us we recap another week of Grand Rounds. We start off with a CPC case, where Dr. Rodriguez challenges Dr. Benoit to a case involving a young child with recurrent syncopal episodes. Next up, Dr. Knudsen-Robbins teaches us all the tips/tricks to performing LPs in the ED. If you ever felt nervous about an pediatric airway, our airway expert, Dr. Carleton, walks us through all the nuances of a pediatric intubation. Meanwhile, Dr. Milligan reflects on her four years as a resident and shares her insight about making the hard decisions during training. One of our very own SRU tamers, Dr. Davis, teaches us how to expertly manage symptomatic bradycardia. Lastly, Drs. Broadstock and Ramachandran help us add nerve blocks to our growing toolbox used for treating acute pain in the ED.

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Grand Rounds Recap 11.8.23

Grand Rounds Recap 11.8.23

We start off the day with our quarterly Airway Grand Rounds, where Dr. Carleton discussed the intricacies of performing an awake look intubation. We then transitioned into a brief operations update on the department, followed by a great discussion regarding heavy metal toxicity with Dr. Boyer during his R1 Clinical Knowledge lecture. We were then honored to host Dr. Curran, an associate professor in the Division of Hematology Oncology and specialist in acute hematologic malignancies, for our consultant corner where we discussed acute leukemia. Finally, we wrapped up the day with combined grand rounds with our pediatric colleagues where we practiced a case of DKA during simulation as well as discussed pediatric EKGS and airways. Lots to learn this Wednesday!

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.30.23

Grand Rounds Recap 8.30.23

We start off strong this week with EMS grand rounds, where EMS fellow Dr. Klein walks us through potential uses and barriers for using ultrasound in the prehospital setting. We then moved on to our R1 Diagnostic and Therapeutics lecture, where Dr. Segev expertly led us through a discussion on the use of inflammatory markers in the ED including several small group cases. Next, an exciting CPC matchup between Drs. Schor and Stolz who went head to head to discuss a mysterious case of the hiccups. This was followed by Dr. Diaz who gave her R4 Capstone lecture on what her R4s taught her. Finally, we wrapped up the day with an excellent discussion on airway management during our airway grand rounds.

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.16.22

Grand Rounds Recap 3.16.22


In this week’s Grand Rounds, Dr. Carleton reviews our new and old airway equipment and describes best approaches for ETT exchange, Dr. Laurence shares insight on creative approaches to asking questions, appreciative inquiry, and questioning barriers for patients, Dr. Glenn discusses atypical headache etiologies including IIH, giant cell arteritis, acute angle closure glaucoma, and trigeminal neuralgia, Drs. Kein and Adan match wits in a CPC case of digoxin toxicity, and our PEM colleagues take us through a case of a critically ill infant with a ductal dependent lesion.

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.2.22

Grand Rounds Recap 3.2.22

We kicked off the month of March with a jam-packed Morbidity and Mortality Conference with Dr. Meaghan Frederick highlighting some of our amazing cases from downstairs including features on high sensitivity troponin, stridor and complicated alcohol withdrawal. Next up, Dr. Katherine Connelly walked us through how to troubleshoot in-transport alarms and failures of cardiac assist devices. Lastly, Dr. Bill Hinckley shared pearls of wisdom from his years at Air Care.

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Grand Rounds Recap 1.26.22

Grand Rounds Recap 1.26.22

This week, we started off with an excellent journal club led by Drs. Ijaz and Mullen discussing interventions aimed at improving access to primary care from the Emergency Department and then followed along with Drs. Ferreri and Skrobut as they battled out a case of mysterious altered mental status during the crowd favorite, CPC. Dr. Pulvino reminded us that not all rashes are simple through her case follow up and Dr. Gobble took us on a deep dive of the diagnosis and management of gastroparesis and cyclic vomiting syndrome. Finally, we closed out the day with lessons in nasal endoscopy and cricothyrotomy from the airway guru himself, Dr. Steven Carleton.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.7.21

Grand Rounds Recap 7.7.21

Join us as we review another excellent week of grand rounds where neurocritical care fellow Dr. Ham takes us through airway management in the neurocritically injured, Dr. Stolz improves our cardiac ultrasound skills, Dr. Lang discusses the OMI/NOMI EKG findings, Dr. Carleton elevates our use of extraglottic devices, and ENT consultant Dr. Patil provides some tips on managing difficult airways!

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Grand Rounds Recap 01.13.2021

Grand Rounds Recap 01.13.2021

This week had a wide variety of topics including: cardiac arrest, SALAD, crying infants, and history! The day started off with a journal club covering some new critical care articles on cardiac arrest lead by our R3s. Next, the one and only Dr. Carleton gave us some airway pearls. Dr. Hughes educated us on the importance of handoffs and ED crowding. We had visiting professor Dr. Schmitz give us an excellent lecture on the past and future of EM. Finally our PEM colleagues taught us about fussy afebrile infants

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Grand Rounds Recap 12.2.20

Grand Rounds Recap 12.2.20

We had a great Grand Rounds with nine lectures!

Dr. Fermann gave us operations updates for the CEC. Dr. Dave Thompson discussed quality improvement, root cause analysis, and the Pareto Principle. Dr. Tillotson walked us through the types of hypertension seen in pregnancy and how to manage these patients. Dr. Walsh found a sandwich in a patient’s airway. Dr. Jarrell discussed the exciting specialty called Social Emergency Medicine. Dr. Koehler showed us how to use a Minnesota tube for massive UGIB. Dr. Milligan discussed complex cardiac devices including IABP, Impella, and LVAD. Dr. Hassani reviewed post partum headaches and evidence on neuroprotective intubation. And lastly, Dr. Gleimer made us exercise our System 1 and System 2 thinking.

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Grand Rounds Recap 09.30.20

Grand Rounds Recap 09.30.20

This week’s Grand Rounds was full of excellent cases, Bayesian statistics, and uncovered cognitive biases.

From Morbidity & Mortality Conference by Dr. Hughes, to airway expertise by Dr. Carleton, to tips to decrease stress by Dr. Koehler, to learned lessons from near misses by attendings Dr. Continenza, R. Thompson, and Sabedra, this summary is one you’re going to want to pay attention to!

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.29.20

Grand Rounds Recap 7.29.20

This week’s Grand Rounds was kicked off with Dr. Mand presenting our first Morbidity and Mortality Conference of the academic year. Dr. Carleton then masterfully provided tips on how to improve airway management. Drs. Yates and Modi led us through our first Clinical Treatment lecture series outlining the evidence-based medicine approach to managing elevated intraocular pressure. Drs. Meigh and Jarrell discussed a fascinating case of neurosyphilis for CPC, and finally, Dr. Jensen walked us through his tips and tricks for approaching individual finances.

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Grand Rounds Recap 05.06.20

Grand Rounds Recap 05.06.20

Grand Rounds this week started with airway QI and COVID-19 airway management per the consummate expertise of Dr. Carleton. Dr. Mullen then taught the pearls and pitfalls of urine drug screens, Dr. Paulsen arose victorious from CPC vs. Dr. Wolochatiuk, and Dr. Ijaz gave a stellar review of ear pathology in the ED. Finally, Drs. Golden, Ham, and Spigner took us on a tour de force remote simulation of structural collapse with crush syndrome complicated by hyperkalemic arrest.

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