Archives (Pre-2024)

4/7/2022: ALWAYS ON EM, Season 1, Chapter 5: Newer Medicine for Older Adults

3/1/2022: ALWAYS ON EM, Season 1, Chapter 4: Pump it up! -

6/2021: June Journal Club "Intravenous Contrast Material Exposure Is Not an Independent Risk Factor for Dialysis or Mortality; Acute Kidney Injury After Computed Tomography: A Meta-Analysis; and Contrast Nephropathy, myth thereof"

5/19/2021 Journal Club:  The Emergency Critical Care Series: SCOV2

4/7/2021 Journal Club:  Hypothermia

2021:  Optimization of Emergency Department Antimicrobials for Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) | EM Journal Club

2/27/2021:  Trouble Tracheostomies 

1/21/2021:  Chest Pain in the ED

1/19/2021:  Dr. Jones on the COVID Vaccine

11/2020:  Evidence behind the Use of Trigger Point Injections (TIPs) for back pain

10/2020:  Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Treatment, Eye Glue Mishap, the Recovery Trial, Does NPT mean an empty stomach and Microaggressions

2020:  Spinal or Spiral? Diagnostic Dilemmas in the Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

9/2020:  Journal Club:  Antibiotic and irrigation system for patients presenting with penetrating joint injuries

2020:  Under Pressure!  Acute Blood Pressure Management in Emergency Medicine

2020:  Dr. Luke Wood demonstrating placement of a Minnesota Tube

8/2020 Journal Club:  NINDS trial for using tPA in ischemic strokes

2020:  Snake Bites

2020:  Heat Emergencies

7/2020 Journal Club:  Out-of-Hospital Spinal Immobilization: Its Effect on Neurologic Injury

2020:  Impact of scribes on throughput metrics and billing during an electronic medical record transition

2020:  Palliative care in the emergency department: A survey assessment of patient and provider perspectives

2020:  Safety of parenteral ketorolac use for analgesia in geriatric emergency department patients

6/2020:  In ketamine meta-analysis

6/2020:  How can we improve the experience of older adults in the emergency department?

5/2020:  Geriatric Cart to provide comfort to seniors in the Emergency Department

2/2020:  Early Recognition of Child Abuse

12/2018:  Youth Athletes in America – Does Practice Really Make Perfect?

9/2018:  Effect of the Head CT Choice Decision Aid in Parents of Children With Minor Head Trauma

8/2018:  The opioid epidemic

6/2018:  Blockchain: A new technology for health professions education

5:2018:  Addressing the Active Shooter Challenge through In-situ Simulation

3/2018:  We all make mistakes

2/2018:  Intravenous Lidocaine for pain in the ED: what the evidence shows?

12/2017:  Better informed consent in the ED: going through the research to practice continuum

10/2017:  Social Media Scholarship as a Criterion for Academic Promotion

9/2017:  The ED does not hand out opioids like candy

7/2017:  How to best identify patients that have a high likelihood of dying in one year?

7/2017:  Apneic Oxygenation actually works (for some things)

5/2017:  Really, how dangerous can it be? Motocross injuries in the emergency department

5/2017:  The new Standardized Video Interview: Top 10 Things to Know

4/2017:  The Future of Healthcare – Knowledge, Agents and Networks

4/2017:  ECMO Rounds: Crash Course

4/2017:  Stick, glue and cone for ear foreign bodies

12/2016:  An overview of Healthcare Quality

12/2016:  Integrating patient preferences in the delivery of Emergency Care. Kano analysis predicts change in experience.

11/2016:  Is too sick to go home also too sick for the floor?

11/2016:  Shared Decision Making in the ED: A tale of two studies

11/2016:  Is there method in the madness: observation vs. full admission

10/2016:  Women in Leadership: a glimmer of hope from ABMS

10/2016:  Peritonsillar abscess management on the Emergency Department: conservative or surgical approach?

10/2016:  Scribes are the heroes of Emergency Physicians but what is the evidence behind their impact?

7/2016:  Caring for behavioral health patients in community Emergency Departments, an every day challenge

7/2016:  How to succeed as a Teacher - New Skills (Episode 7)

6/2016:  OnPar: a gamified didactic decision-making learning tool

6/2016:  Sweet lullabies: Pediatric sedation by Emergency Physicians

6/2016:  How to succeed as a Teacher - Feedback (episode 6)

6/2016:  LIVE.DIE.REPEAT. Simulation. Time travel, gamification and deliberate practice.

6/2016:  How to Succeed as a Teacher - Introduction (episode 5)

6/2016:  How to Succeed as a Teacher - On Learning (episode 4)

6/2016:  How to Succeed as a Teacher - Goal Setting (episode 3)

5/2016:  Real-World Coronary CT Angiography Use is Associated with Increased Healthcare Utilization

5/2016:  How to Succeed as a Teacher - Asking Questions (episode 2)

5/2016:  MACRA Explained

4/2016:  How to Succeed as a Teacher - Preparing to Teach (episode 1)

4/2016:  SAEM 2016 Consensus Conference in Shared Decision Making

3/2016:  Restless leg syndrome in the emergency department: Things I know nothing about

3/2016:  Lessons Learned - a quality educational tool developed at Mayo Clinic's Emergency Department

2/2016:  Are you going to put me to sleep? what are the risks of sedation in the emergency department?

1/2016:  Thunderstruck. Head CT within 6 hours of headache onset and rule-out of subarachnoid hemorrhage.

1/2016:  A comment on How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

12/2015:  Just do the right thing: analysis of litigation in CT for head trauma

11/2015:  What are you afraid of? Fear and uncertainty in the practice of Emergency Medicine

11/2015:  The Happiness Series

11/2015:  Appendicitis in Pregnancy

11/2015:  A primer on the needs and the care of the transgender patient in the Emergency Department

10/2015:  Tear down these walls

10/2015:  Know Your Eye Medications

9/2015:  Iron Toxicity

9/2015:  The Role of Diagnostic Thoracentesis in the Emergency Department

9/2015:  A Learner’s Perspective on Social Media Medical Education versus Traditional Medical Education

9/2015:  Aortic Dissection and D-Dimer

8/2015:  A new mindset: from perimortem cesarean to resuscitative hysterotomy

8/2015:  Acute Tick-Borne Disease Testing Algorithm

8/2015:  The VAPORS and the Resuscitation Sequence of Intubation - Richard Levitan

8/2015:  Intussusception and Midgut Volvulus

7/2015:  Alcoholic Ketoacidosis

7/2015:  To burr or not to burr

7/2015:  Blunt Agonal Arrest

7/2015:  New EM physicians: 10 Keys to Getting a Successful Start in your new Job

6/2015:  Thoughts on my First 6 Months as an EM Attending

6/2015:  A really bad leg swelling

6/2015:  Tick season is now upon us!

6/2015:  Basic Primer: Syncope in the Emergency Department

5/2015:  When you hear hoofbeats, don’t think horses or zebras, think hippopotamuses

5/2015:  Primer in Blunt Thoracic Trauma

5/2015:  Pediatric Stroke

5/2015:  Approach to the pregnant patient with headache

5/2015:  Thoughts on Residency--One Month After Graduation

4/2015:  Deep Space Infections of the Neck (via Emergency Medicine)

4/2015:  How to stop a post-dialysis site bleeding

4/2015:  The Dronation of Blood? Exploring the Role of Drones in Medicine

4/2015:  A brief review of ECMO

4/2015:  A brief review of Kawasaki Disease

4/2015:  How to use the Sonosite S-Fast Machine

3/2015:  Managing the Surge…

3/2015:  Trigeminal neuralgia: diagnosis and management

3/2015:  Accidental Hypothermia

3/2015:  Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis: Battling the alien within

3/2015:  A Review of Calcium Channel Blocker Toxicity

3/2015:  A Review of Acute Chest Syndrome

2/2015:  Primer on Penetrating Thoracic Trauma

2/2015:  Third trimester vaginal bleeding: A case and a review of the management

2/2015:  "When I was told I had epiglottitis". An Emergency Medicine physician recalls her care on the other side of the curtain in a busy Emergency Department

2/2015:  Primer on Geriatric Trauma

1/2015:  Post-partum cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrest

1/2015:  Gout. It is always gout!

1/2015:  One thing ED nurses wish docs knew

1/2015:  The truth about Small Bowel Obstruction

12/2014:  The New Kids in the Hyperkalemia Block; A Perspective from the Nephrology Corner

12/2014:  Blunt Abdominal Trauma

12/2014:  Pearls in Digital Wound Repair

12/2014:  Anaphylaxis Management

12/2014:  Primum non nocere: How understanding Serotonin Syndrome will help you stay true to the Hippocratic Oath

11/2014:  A gateway to the killer rashes

11/2014:  The 2 Minutes Consult Infographic: Malignant Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

11/2014:  A case of pediatric DKA

11/2014:  Walking through the valley of death: Spontaneous Retroperitoneal Hematoma

11/2014:  Towards better decision making: empty stomach, full bladder and lemonade

11/2014:  Left sided acute appendicitis

11/2014:  Save face: Managing facial trauma in the emergency department

11/2014:  A case of Myxedema Coma

11/2014:  A pain in the neck. Ludwig's Angina

11/2014:  The Journey Towards Certified Enlightenment: Practical Tips for Passing EM Boards

11/2014:  Stop Packing Abscesses!

11/2014:  A basic approach to the LVAD patient in the Emergency Department

11/2014:  Thyroid inferno

11/2014:  CDC Algorithm – Identify, Isolate, Inform: Emergency Department Evaluation and Management for Patients Who Present with Possible Ebola Virus Disease

10/2014:  ACEP Choosing Wisely Initiative (2014 Version)

10/2014:  Hiccups: Old remedies for an old malady

10/2014:  KDIGO Definition of Acute Kidney Failure

10/2014:  The early evaluation and management of subarachnoid hemorrhage

10/2014:  The Crashing Patient with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension

10/2014:  Health Care Social Media and Professionalism (part of Mayo Clinic Social Media Residency)

10/2014:  Nefarious Hypercalcemia

10/2014:  When is CT + LP indicated in the patient with HIV / AIDS

10/2014:  A pediatric case of salicylate toxicity

10/2014:  Abdominal Pain vs. Chest Pain in the Elderly

10/2014:  Pediatric GI Foreign Body Management

10/2014:  The Case of the Fiddleback Spider

10/2014:  Dare to dilate: Evaluation of acute visual loss in the emergency department

10/2014:  The 10 Commandments for an Effective Presentation

10/2014:  CDC: Ebola Virus Disease Algorithm for evaluation of the returned traveler

10/2014:  Septic Arthritis: Myth Busting

10/2014:  A great case of pediatric intussusception presenting as altered mental status

10/2014:  Using Twitter in Health Care and Education

10/2014:  A very basic primer on time management

9/2014:  Don’t Forget TXA in the Trauma Bay

9/2014:  Approach to drowning

9/2014:  Urinary Tract Infections: A Pharmacotherapy Review

9/2014:  Approach to the patient with rhabdomyolysis

9/2014:  Jeff Kline's approach to the patient with suspected Pulmonary Embolism

9/2014:  Simple tool for bedside feedback. The SBIOC format.

9/2014:  How to Talk to a Neurologic Intensivist

9/2014:  Nursemaid's elbow

9/2014:  Right Upper Quadrant Pain: When Should I Call the Surgeon?

9/2014:  Stress Tests and Admitting to the Observation Unit for Chest Pain

9/2014:  Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine Residency Program Overview

9/2014:  Interesting EKG

9/2014:  Reversing Anti-coagulation: Part 1 - Warfarin (Coumadin)

9/2014:  Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department

8/2014:  Dieter Rams' Principles of Design Applied to Emergency Medicine

8/2014:  Chikungunya - Emerging infections series #2

8/2014:  The trial was terminated early for benefit, great! Right? No, you are probably celebrating a bias.

8/2014:  An algorithm to reduce the use of CT to diagnose appendicitis in children

8/2014:  Staying safe and avoiding injuries during the summer

8/2014:  Approach to the patient with Pneumocystis pneumonia

8/2014:  Hair apposition technique

7/2014:  Approach to the patient on electric storm due to an ICD

7/2014:  What is a decision?

7/2014:  Laws of Simplicity in Emergency Medicine

7/2014:  How to place a pig tail catheter

7/2014:  5 Simple Steps in the Ankle Block

7/2014:  Digitalis Toxicity

6/2014:  How to get involved in International Emergency Medicine

6/2014:  Ebola! Quick Review

6/2014:  Review of Myasthenia Crisis

6/2014:  Trauma Review: Drowning

6/2014:  How to retrieve epinephrine from an auto-injector

6/2014:  First Emergency Medicine Book

6/2014:  Advice for new EM graduates

6/2014:  PERC (Pulmonary Embolism Rule-Out Criteria)

6/2014:  Using TXA for Epistaxis

6/2014:  Poor prognosis pericarditis

6/2014:  The hypotensive and bradycardic patient

6/2014:  More like LEGO less like textbooks. Design concepts and medical education.

6/2014:  The BLUE protocol: Diagnosis of adult respiratory distress using ultrasound

6/2014:  The FARES technique for shoulder dislocation reduction

6/2014:  Blood Pressure Control in Intracranial Hemorrhage

6/2014:  Labs and Ios

5/2014:  GI bleed and Minnesota tube made easy

5/2014:  Awake fiberoptic intubation made easy

5/2014:  Controversies about stress testing in the emergency department

5/2014:  Management of LVAD emergencies