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Nursing Journal Club: Torsade de Pointes
For this online journal club, here is an article supplied by Tess on Women at Risk for Torsades de Pointes. Click the link to download it. Use the comments below to discuss. Here is a video I had made for the EKG course on prolonged QT intervals and torsades. You may or may not find [...]
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For this online journal club, here is an article supplied by Tess on Women at Risk for Torsades de Pointes. Click the link to download it. Use the comments below to discuss. Here is a video I had made for the EKG course on prolonged QT intervals and torsades. You may or may not find [...]
Tick counts are higher this year and the cook county department of public health is encouraging the those who spend time out in the suburban wooded areas to protect themselves from tickborne disease. Last year there were 36 cases of Lyme Disease in Cook County. If you find a tick on a patient, you must [...]
Left Ventricular Assist Devices confused the heck out of me, so I thought I’d go through some of the anatomy and physiology of these things. Then everything seemed to make a bit more sense. Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart… with an LVAD I misspoke in this video. Dick Cheney did not have ‘destination therapy’ [...]
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In the last few years, there have been several new oral anticoagulants added to the market. This has left clinicians questioning how to choose among the agents. Compared to vitamin K antagonists, these agents claim to offer less drug-drug and drug-food interactions, less dosing variability, and no frequent monitoring of PT/INR. However, there are still things [...]
Welcome to Rush Emergency Medicine
Hello everyone, Welcome to the web page of the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Education Division. Here we have consolidated all the online learning, orientation, forms, for our various learners. Within these pages you’ll find all the information you need about your rotation through our department, whether you are a medical student, PA or resident. Also in here are several lessons written by our faculty. Click on the navigation bar above to find your appropriate lessons. Or just feel free to search around. If you have any questions, please email me. Use the contact link above.
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