A Cook County Hospital Emergency Medicine Blog for up-to-date medicine and more.
The Cook County EM Residency strives to teach both fundamentals with practice-changing research. Our journal club is split between senior and junior residents, and here you will see the articles discussed at our December journal club for junior residents, which focused on managing pediatric asthma.
Jose Reyes, MD
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The State of Affairs:
In 2022, we welcomed a million migrants to the United States, and this number is climbing (1). Many migrants, especially undocumented persons, utilize the emergency department as their primary care home due to inequities in health care access affecting this group. In order to deliver holistic and equitable care and build trust with your patients, it is important to understand both the rights of our patients and our immigration enforcement officers in the acute care setting. Below we will describe just this and provide tips for making your Emergency Department (ED) a safe place for everyone to receive health care within their rights.
Adam Roussas, MD and Rashid Kysia, MD
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We frequently discuss and teach the diagnostic algorithm for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism (PE). Beyond that, many learners will treat patients as either sick or not sick. In reality, the nuances of the middle ground can be the differences between life and death. Here, we discuss the evaluation and management of PEs in the ED.
Josué Rodriguez, MS4
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