Suboxone for Opioid Use Disorder: An Underutilized Lifesaving Treatment

While opiates have been utilized for thousands of years, Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has been increasing drastically since the turn of the 21st century…

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Rounding Efficiency for the Emergency Medicine (EM) Resident

Months of ICU rotations are required for United States (US) Emergency Medicine (EM) residents. As EM residents, we can feel out of place or less efficient than we are used to in this environment since we work primarily in a very different model and with a very different electronic medical record (EMR) setup…

How Movies Have Made Me a Better Doctor

In college, I minored in film because I love movies so much. One of my most influential classes was called “Sight, Sound, and Motion”. This class delved into physics on cinema and the way filmmakers manipulate each of these elements to evoke emotions and tell stories…

Emergency Medicine, Social EMFahad AliJune 18, 2024Emergency Medicine, communication, patient centered medicineComment

Platelets, Who?

A 12-year-old female with no significant past medical history presents with a non-painful, non-pruritic rash…

Emergency Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, PediatricsAmbuj SuriJune 11, 2024pediatric EM, Emergency Medicine, hematologyComment

Research Study: Late hemotoxicity following North American rattlesnake envenomation

Is crotalidae immune F(ab’)2 (equine) antivenom (Fab2AV) better than crotalidae immune polyvalent Fab (bovine) antivenom (FabAV) in preventing late hemotoxicity in patients who have been bitten and envenomated by rattlesnakes?

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