Ask students to make predictions

A student’s previous knowledge helps them establish new learning. By creating connections to this old material, they are able to build off it and solidify the new content in their minds. While teaching in the emergency department, this can be done by asking them to use their prior knowledge to make a prediction. They then … Continue reading Ask students to make predictions →

Evenomations

Snakebite management is a complaint unique to Emergency Medicine. There are really two main snakes we'll discuss here, rattlesnakes and coral snakes. We'll also discuss spider bites and bee stings! Snake bites Spider Bites Hymenoptera When you're done watching the video, download this and we can talk about it in class. aim_envenomations

Qualities of the best and worst teachers

Some decided to poll a bunch of students across the country about what qualities defined a good teacher. They then took these results and put it into a site called wordle.net which creates word clouds. Here are the results of the qualities of the best and worst teachers... If you want the original size PDF's … Continue reading Qualities of the best and worst teachers →

EKG 101

You should not leave medical school without a basic understanding of how to read an EKG. So watch these videos then download the unlabeled EKG's for you to read prior to class (or in class). See how you do. If there are some you have trouble with, ask me or anyone of the other Emergency … Continue reading EKG 101 →

Neonatal Resuscitation

If resuscitation of children is anxiety provoking, resuscitation of neonates is downright terrifying. Here we go through the 2010 Guidelines for the management of the neonate or newly born child requiring resuscitation. Remember that these are predominantly respiratory emergencies, even when presenting with bradycardia. Here's part I and part II And here's the worksheet for … Continue reading Neonatal Resuscitation →

Giving Effective Feedback in the ER

Giving feedback to students in the ER is easy. If they did well, you say "STRONG WORK!" and if they did poorly... "READ MORE." Of course, this provides nothing the student can use to improve. Drs. Ester Choo and Michelle Lin from San Francisco General Hospital created this video on how to give effective feedback. … Continue reading Giving Effective Feedback in the ER →

Reversing Anti-Coagulation

So you got a patient who's throwing up blood all over the place, is on coumadin and has an INR of 400. What do you do? Well, after you change your underwear. The first two videos go over the basic science of clotting (platelets and the coagulation cascade) and the next three then go over … Continue reading Reversing Anti-Coagulation →

End Tidal CO2 Monitors

We have some new toys in the ER, end-tidal CO2 monitors. The 2010 ACLS Guidelines incorporates these so we better learn how to use them. In this video, Tess shows us how to hook them up (and just how tachypneic she is). In the second half of the video, we look at the waveforms. Namely, … Continue reading End Tidal CO2 Monitors →

Prolonged QT Syndrome and Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Dan Seitz and I were working one day when he showed me this awesome EKG. Loved it. So I made a whole video on about it.

Child Abuse Fracture Patterns

What do you look for on a skeletal survey? What fractures are pathognomic for child abuse? Hmm? Do you know? Well, watch this and then let me know.