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The Best Affiliate Programs in Uganda in the Sports Betting Market
Check out our article if you want to know how to choose the best affiliate sports betting program in Uganda. We’ll also review the most well-known and profitable affiliate programs in the country: 1xPartners (1xBet), Betwinner Affiliates, Melbet Affiliates, 22Bet Partners, and Betway Partners.
Hypertensive Emergency Management with Clevidipine |
If you haven’t used clevidipine for hypertensive emergencies, you may want to give it a try. It comes as a pre-mixed bottle, has a fast onset (2 minutes), you can titrate up at 90 second intervals, and the terminal half-life is 15 minutes! Its onset and half-life are very similar to propofol, so if…
Why COVID-19 is a Geriatric Emergency |
We are in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The mortality is highest in older adults. Dr. Teresita (Tess) Hogan and a team of Emergency Physicians recently wrote an article on things we should think about as we care for and work to protect our older patients. In this episode, Dr. Hogan and I…
Advance Care Planning – What does it all mean? |
This month we are looking at advance directives, DNR orders, living wills, MOST, and POLST forms. If you don’t understand what all of those are, then you should definitely listen! I am joined by Drs. Ferdinando Mirarchi and Marie-Carmelle Elie who are researchers and leaders in the realm of palliative care and advance care planning. Unfortunately,…
Retiring the Term “Mechanical Fall” for Older Patients |
ED physicians and APPs see older patients in the ED for falls every. single. shift. On this episode, geriatric EM expert Shan Liu talks about preventing future falls from the ED, and the fact that we should retire the term "mechanical fall". Unfortunately, this term is potentially misleading and can downplay the serious nature of the…
Week one in the COVID ICU |
Dr. Kusum Mathews is a pulmonary and critical care physician and researcher at Mt. Sinai in NYC. She staffed the first week of her hospital's COVID ICU. The week started off with only a few COVID-19 positive patients and escalated to having patients spilling over into multiple ICU areas by the end of the week.…
How to Do a Discharge Risk Assessment in the ED |
For older patients, there are risks of being discharged home, but also risks of being admitted to the hospital. In some cases in the ED the decision to admit or discharge a patient is not cut and dry. In this episode, Dr. Lauren Southerland and I talk about some of the issues and walk through…
Four Models of Care for Geriatric EDs |
Many EDs around the world are working to become Geriatric EDs or geriatric-friendly EDs. Dr. Lauren Southerland led a group that looked at what models of care different EDs were using to become accredited geriatric EDs. They found four basic themes or models. Here we discuss the four models, and why one or the other…
Ten Commandments of Geriatric EM Care |
Christian Nickel, an Emergency Physician in Basel, Switzerland, has developed 10 commandments (or suggestions) for providing high quality geriatric EM care. This is a dense, high-yield episode in which we cover a wealth of practical tips for improving the care of older patients. Listen Here or on iTunes: The Ten "Commandments" Biological age does not…
Principles of Geriatric EM Care |
The Greatest Generation. There’s a reason the oldest patients in our Emergency Departments have earned this title. They’re resilient, stoic, and sometimes even sneaky. They’re our absolute favorite patients to care for. And if your ED is anything like ours, there are days where it seems like the average age in the department is over…