Grand Rounds Recap 2.2.22

Grand Rounds Recap 2.2.22

In this week’s Grand Rounds, Dr. Laurence led us through an incredible and education Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Drs. Gillespie and Continenza worked through a dramatic case combining vision changes and rash, Dr. Wright reminded us to not forget the esophagus in our patients with chest pain and Dr. Connelly gave a fantastic overview of EMS provider education and systems structure in her R4 Capstone. Finally, our incredible visiting professor, Dr. Megan Rybarcyzk gave us insight into building an emergency medicine education program in the midst of a pandemic and provides tips and tricks for those seeking a career in global health.

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Grand Rounds Recap 10.20.21

Grand Rounds Recap 10.20.21

During this week’s Grand Rounds, fitness gurus joined us for Wellness Grand Rounds, Dr. Grisoli discussed the diagnosis and management of CRAO and CRVO, Dr. Minges described paradigms of diagnosis and management for abdominal aortic aneurysm, and Dr. Paulsen shared reasons and tools for debriefing resuscitations.

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Annals of B-Pod: Acute Vision Loss

Annals of B-Pod: Acute Vision Loss

Thinking about the other left lower quadrant

 

The patient is a 74 year-old African-American female with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease status post drug-eluting stent ×1, former cigarette smoker, and iron deficiency anemia presenting with left-sided vision loss. Patient states that approximately two days ago  she woke up with painless peripheral vision loss of her left eye only. She describes it as darkness in the lateral portion of her left eye. She  reports that her vision returned to baseline throughout that day; only to return when she awoke the next morning. Since that time she endorses persistent vision loss in the left periphery. She denies blurry vision, eye pain, headaches, recent trauma, flashes, and floaters. Furthermore, she also denies dizziness, numbness weakness, dysarthria, dysphagia, fever, chills nausea, vomiting, chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations. She reports adherence to her antihypertensive and anti-platelet medications...

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