Emergency Medicine Blog
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This is the space meant for professional education only (particularly emergency medicine) and is not a place for medical consultation and it DOES NOT replace proper consultation and treatment advice to patients. This site is mainly created for my students - undergraduates and postgraduates - to facilitate teaching and learning purposes, to serve as additional learning materials, to share..
Emergency Medicine Blog
1y ago
Do you find it difficult to grasp the concept of hypernatremia correction and how to calculate the amount of water deficit in patients? This video breaks down the formula using a simple and relatable analogy – diluting a bowl of salty soup! Just as diluting a bowl of overly salty soup with water helps make it more palatable, correcting hypernatremia involves adjusting the body's water ..read more
Emergency Medicine Blog
1y ago
Image from pexels.com Leadership is a skill that anyone can learn. It's not something that people are born with, but rather something that can be developed through the right mindset and observable behaviors that lead to measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, a significant number of American workers report that their boss is toxic, and dealing with their manager is the most stressful part of their ..read more
Emergency Medicine Blog
1y ago
Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-bright-lights-373543/ Photo from pexels.comArtificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various industries, including healthcare. The use of AI capabilities, such as natural-language generation, computer vision, and robotic process automation, is growing exponentially. In a recent McKinsey report for example, it has been shown that ..read more
Emergency Medicine Blog
1y ago
Before deep diving into the specific prompts that can be used to enhance research proposal writing, let me start this post by repeatingly remind each other as acdemicians and professionals, to use ChatGPT responsibly and ethically. Whilst ChatGPT can be very useful in many aspects of research proposal writing, the onus still falls on the researchers to evaluate and verify the accuracy of the ..read more
Emergency Medicine Blog
5y ago
1. Unable to recognize ventricular
fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia
There are some students who cannot
differentiate VF from PEA. This is a
potentially fatal mistake because for VF, the one intervention besides CPR that
is proven to increase survival to hospital discharge is defibrillation (but not
for PEA).
AHA CPR Guideline 2015:
In addition to high-quality CPR, the
only ..read more