On the Streets- Zero to Rodeo

Carepoint Journal Club is a quarterly series with discussions about a medical topic, brought to you by Carepoint's Emergency Physicians. 

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: UTIs are commonly seen in older women We often see them taking long-term prophylactic antibiotics because of common recurrence. Around 20-30% of older women who develop a UTI have a recurrence due to either diagnostic failure, tre ... Show More

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Back pain is a common presenting complaint in the emergency department. Challenges arise when tailoring care to elderly populations using standard medical therapy: Muscle relaxants carry the risk of CNS depression or anticholinerg ... Show More

Dr. Alex Menze talks with Dr. Carmel Armon about the efficacy of epidural steroid injections in cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis and radiculopathies, assessing short-term and long-term improvements in pain and disability. Read the related article in Neurology®. Disclosures can ... Show More

Nothing is more satisfying than draining an abscess, right? But when is medical management sufficient or even better? In this episode of the BackTable ENT Podcast, pediatric otolaryngologist Dr. John McClay joins host Dr. Gopi Shah to educate listeners on the diagnosis and manage ... Show More

This week on the BackTable ENT podcast, Dr. Gopi Shah and Dr. Amanda Stapleton, a pediatric otolaryngologist from UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, chat about the unique challenges of treating pediatric sinus and skull base diseases, orbital complications, and biofilm-cover ... Show More

Andrew is joined by very special guest, neuroradiolgist Frank Gaillard, for a chat about posterior fossa tumours and his latest brain tumour course. Topics include ependymoma, choroid plexus papilloma, medulloblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, haemangioblastoma and more! Posterior ... Show More

<p class="MsoNormal">Syphilis is often known as the "the great masquerader" because it can mimic symptoms and look like a wide array of other diseases. Dr. Edmund Tsui interviews Dr. Michael Huvard to get to the bottom of how acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinopathy p ... Show More

Today's Episode Charlee reviews chapter 10 from the Pediatric Morning Report book. The obstetric service is monitoring a 33-year-old G9P2071 pregnant female with a history of a prior pregnancy ending in intrauterine fetal demise at 8 months of gestation. A prenatal ultrasound per ... Show More

Hosts Drs. Roger Dmochowski and Lou Kavoussi chat with Drs. Henry Lai and Robert Moldwin about advances in the treatment of Interstitial Cystitis and other bladder pain disorders, which they cover in detail in their new chapter in the upcoming 13th edition of Campbell-Walsh-Wein ... Show More

In this webinar, the CardioNerds collaborated with the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group (CSWG) to discuss LV unloading and the updated AMI guidelines, which upgraded transvalvular flow pumps to a Class 2A recommendation in AMI shock. Dr. Rachel Goodman and Dr. Gurleen Kaur from Ca ... Show More

It’s 2 a.m. The on-call resident’s voice is shaky.The CT shows an 18cm abdominal aortic aneurysm with a Type 1B endoleak. There’s gas in the sac, fluid in the belly, and the patient has a defibrillator on both sides of his chest. Is it a rupture? A graft infection? An aortoenteri ... Show More

Today's Episode Alexis reviews Case 2 from the Pediatric Morning Report book. A 9-year-old male presents complaining of progressive left jaw pain and swelling. He has been having intermittent epistaxis for 2 weeks, and 1 week ago he noticed left-sided jaw swelling. At that time, ... Show More