1. You never know what’s going to come through our doors, anything imaginable: attacked with 🌵, ingested fireworks 🧨, surprise 👶 delivery, exercise induced anaphylaxis, cardiac arrest...what can I say, I 💜 to help & easily bored, couldn’t dream up a better career for myself.
2. I work with over 100 of my best friends 🧔🏾👨🏻👩🏼🦰👩🏽🦳👱🏼♂️👱🏽♀️🧑🏽👩🏻👩🏼👨🏿🦱👩🏾🦱I’m always happy to see them when I walk through the doors. We’re there for each other as we face the challenges that come through the doors of the ED 💪💪 Love my coworkers!
3. I get to interact with everyone face to face, don’t spend much time on the phone. I get some exercise doing laps around the department 🏃♀️
4. I enjoy coming up with fun ways to teach the department & our residents using things like our #pharmacyeducationboard, @TILEDPharmD, the RSI game 🥳 I like to gamify things to make life more exciting... still haven’t found a way to make my unit inspection more exciting tho lol
5. I get to have awesome residents as my copilots all year- I love having them around & introducing them to EM 😆🙌🏼 Their excitement is contagious & it is so fulfilling seeing them progress. Also, they teach me things too. Win!
@clairelizfraser this is for you & all the pharmacy students out there 😉💕
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More support for our friend succinylcholine. In our ED, sugammadex (also has its own ADRs) is not readily available, no EEG monitoring & HR/BP are nonspecific & unreliable markers of adequate analgosedation— sux should be used for RSI as often as possible! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
⏰ Here’s a little timeline to keep in mind for RSI...
RSI Induction Agents in the Setting of Shock: resuscitate before you intubate, optimize BP pre-intubation to buffer against further drops during & after RSI @KayleighRx
Limited studies have found increased rates of hypotension with our traditionally “hemodynamically neutral” etomidate
🚨 Couldn’t make it to @ASHPOfficial@ASHP_EMPharm Emergency Medicine Pearls 2019 session this morning? Don’t worry, I‘ll share my notes — it’s always my favorite session ☺️
#ClinicalPearl: Unsure if your upper GI bleed is variceal or non-variceal? If there is a chance it’s variceal, octreotide + ceftriaxone should be sufficient- no need for PPI, octreotide inhibits gastric acid secretion just as well 😄 #iamenough #twitterx #medtwitter #emergency
Update with full rationale (thread):
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The pH of an empty stomach is generally 1-3, after a meal it can increase to 3-6. (PMID 8456064)
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🚨PSA: #iPhone users! Please set up #MedicalID on your phone-we can see your medical info even with your screen locked. This is SO HELPFUL when you come in and are unable to communicate with us after a terrible accident. 🚑😵 It can help save your life! (1/7)
You can put allergies on Medical ID, emergency contacts, medical conditions, medications you take, blood type, any random medical notes, even organ donation status (and if you aren’t registered, you can register super easily through the app! 🙌🏼) (2/7)
I look for it every time we get an unresponsive patient with an iPhone! Most people haven’t filled it out 😢💔 which is sad. Help us take the best care of you! Otherwise, we’re flying blind for quite a while when you first come in. (3/7)