In-service review

There is an In-service review being held tonight. It is sponsored by NYU, LIJ, and Northshore. The evening will consist of a visual diagnosis session - reviewing images that are most likely to appear on the in-service exam, with a brief overview of various topics.
Afterwards -- plan for a little "social consumption".

Where: NYU Hospital, Farkas Auditorium
(enter through main entrance of hospital...ask security)

When: Tonight, Tuesday February 13 6 pm to 10 pm

For questions: email Sassan.Naderi@med.nyu.edu

Posterior Ankle Reduction...live

This patient recently presented to an Emergency Department. Here is an overview of how to perform a posterior ankle reduction.

1. Slightly flex the knee to relax the achilles tendon
2. Have an assistant apply countertraction
3. Grasp the forefoot with one hand and the heel with the other hand
4. Slightly plantar flex the foot
5. Apply straight downward traction on the plantar flexed foot, then pull the foot forward

6. Splint the ankle at 90 deg in a long-leg posterior splint
7. Many patients will also have an associated fracture requiring surgical intervention

Medical Student Symposium

The annual Medical Student symposium is set for March 8, 2007. In previous year's, this event has been well received by medical students. If you know of any medical students interested in EM, definitely pass this information along to them.

EM RSS feed/Podcast

So for those of you who can't stand those emails from listserves which clog your inbox, here is a solution... an rss feed for emergency medicine abstracts.... If you know what that is, cool, if not, basically it's like a podcast which you can customize to receive any abstract or news update on any topic.

I noticed that there were a lot of news updates on this blog and for those of you who are interested there is actually a way to scan quickly through the most recent abstracts in most every journal or news service which would interest an em practitioner.

I collected these at a site which you can just cut and paste into your browser...

http://www.bloglines.com/public/emjournalclub

If you look at the pediatric emergency care abstract list for example, you will see the first article is an article by Beth Israel Pediatric EM faculty Drs. Dreisinger, Zane and Etwaru...

This is a relatively painless way to keep up to date, and for those of you interested in journal clubs, this is a great way to get daily updates on specific topics. For example, you can create an abstract feed which will tell you what new articles have been published DAILY on the treatment of sepsis, airway management, etc.

I created an example for intubation...

A technical note, I created most of the journal feeds though pubmed's rss feed service, the links expire after 6 months of inactivity.

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Once I receive your email address, I'll clear it for posting permission. By posting, you will not receive any spam or solicitous email - it simply gives you permission to post.

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