Grand Rounds Recap 03.25.20

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Grand Rounds Recap 03.25.20

In our first ever teleconferenced Grand Rounds - this week Dr. Kathryn Banning presented us with opportunities to improve the care we deliver in our monthly morbidity and mortality conference. Then, our panel of expert clinicians and self-aware humans engaged us all in a discussion of wellness and longevity that was at times vulnerable and candid, but also enlightening from start to finish. Finally, we learned more about radio operations and reflected on both failures and victories in HEMS CQI cases with our Air Care leadership team.

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.13.19

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.13.19

This week’s Grand Rounds began with a practical discussion of the CBC and differential by Dr. Hassani. Dr. Hughes and Thompson led a fantastic CPC on a case of myxedema coma, and Dr. Whitford discussed CT over-utilization in the emergency department. We finished the day with our pediatrics colleagues who walked us through anxiety-provoking cases of aortic coarctation, bacterial tracheitis, and neonatal jaundice. Check it out!

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The CBC and the Man Behind the Curtain

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The CBC and the Man Behind the Curtain

It’s been called “the refuge of the intellectually destitute (physician)” by Amal Muttu. The CBC is a much maligned test that is nevertheless one of the the most frequently ordered diagnostic tests in the ED. To truly know how to interpret this test, one must understand its individual components, the possible causes of variations from normal for those components, and how it integrates into the clinical presentation of the patient. Also, it can’t help but to know and understand some of the historical background…

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