For the case intro, See “Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)” In an earlier post I introduced a case that got me thinking about intubating in a training environment. Specifically, I wondered, how do we decide whether the junior-most or senior-most person in the room should intubate the patient with impending respiratory failure? O […]
Medical education
Scouring the web for that FOAMy conference? Search no more!
Seems that there is some outstanding medical conference happening every single day of the week. Personally, I like following anything related to EM, CC, US, prehospital medicine, clinical ethics and professionalism, med-ed, end of life care and palliative care. But really, it’s hard to keep it all straight so I recently began a new page […]
A Note to Conference Organizers Everywhere
Social Media, FOAM… Call it what you will, it’s pretty amazing. Over the last few months I attended a bunch of conferences without having to pack a single bag. In fact, I was able to keep up with regular ED shifts and continue with my “normal” life as an Emergency/Internal Medicine resident all while experiencing […]
Wink Wednesday #004
Back to logging new/noteworthy linkage from the endless Twitter feed and other ephemera of the past – several – weeks: Med-Ed and Doctoring Dr. Chris Nickson on FOAM love (6 min. video) 6 Tips for the Flipped Classroom 10 Tips for the many, many new features on Prezi Samuel Shem, the author of The House of God, 34 […]
Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)
We got the call during the early morning hours of a recent overnight shift: “EMS is 5 minutes out with an APE”. “Ape?” the intern asked. Acute Pulmonary Edema Several minutes later an entourage burst through the big double doors. As she rolled down the hall flanked by EMT’s this morbidly obese seventy-eight year old […]