Emergency Medicine Interest Group - UCCOM

20/08/2018

Annals of B Pod Summer Issue is Here!

Hot off the presses, be the first to take a gander at the Annals of B-Pod summer 2018 issue! From neurosyphilis to pneumomediastinum to life-threatening baclofen withdrawal , you'll find that it's not just the summer heat making you sweat as we recount tales of these "great imitators"

16/08/2018

Muscle relaxants see a wide variety of uses in the emergency department. From the treatment of sprains and strains to the management of spasticity in patients with upper motor neuron disease, agents like baclofen, cyclobenzaprine, and methocarbamol are well-established elements of an emergency physi

23/06/2018

May brought the fourth case of our Air Care Flight Physician Orientation Case Series with the goal of preparing our first year residents for their roles as Flight Physicians. This is a monthly series that will continue through the R1’s Flight Physician Orientation Day in June. First year re

15/04/2018

Air Care Series is back!  This time with one of the most feared procedures in pre-hospital medicine: the Resuscitative Hysterotomy (aka peri-mortem c-section).  Pregnant patients scare us, but coding pregnant patients scare us even more.  Read on to learn not only when to

27/02/2018

Your next patient is a 17-year-old male you had seen one week before for fever and congestion, diagnosed with a viral upper respiratory infection. He returns this time for nasal congestion, severe frontal headache, fevers, sore throat, and nasal drainage. When he looks around the room, he gets dizzy...

19/02/2018

The first installment of our new AirCare series! We start off with one of the most anxiety provoking scenarios we encounter on AirCare: the pediatric airway. Read on to learn how to calmly and methodically manage this difficult patient.

14/01/2018

University of Cincinnati Emergency Medicine Residency Graduate talking flu on the CBS weekend news!

Ohio ACEP member Dr. Baruch Fertel of the Cleveland Clinic talks flu on the CBS Weekend News!

03/01/2018

It's been a busy night in the SRU. You've already sent two traumas to the OR, given tPA to an acute stroke, and sent a post-arrest patient up to the MICU. As you walk back to your computer to finally take a sip of now cold coffee, you notice there's a new patient in A2. The chief complaint, conju

08/12/2017

06/12/2017

Medical Students: Check out this great opportunity to learn from some of the region's brightest minds in emergency medicine and to interact with residency programs in a relaxed setting! Register now before the prices increase!

Register now for the Midwest Medical Student Emergency Medicine Symposium on April 14, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Columbus, OH.

http://www.ohacep.org/aws/OACEP/pt/sp/residencyresources

06/12/2017

University of Cincinnati Emergency Medicine residents took time out of their busy schedules to teach some of our UCCOM students airway basics, including the use of bag-valve-masks, airway adjuncts, and endotracheal intubation via direct laryngoscopy and video laryngoscopy.

04/12/2017

It's late into your shift when a 12 month-old rolls into your trauma bay and have reproducible abdominal pain. Do you go straight to CT? LFTs? UA? Dr. Shan Modi takes us through the literature and utility of laboratory studies and EKGs in pediatric trauma.