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Michael J. Caudell, MD, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM

10/2/2016 EM Resident

Michael J. Caudell, MD, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM Medical school & residency: Medical College of Georgia Current position: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University: Professor of Emergency Medicine; M

Research , Rapid Research Review

Rapid Research Review: Power

10/2/2016 EM Resident

Rapid Research Review: Power Power Recall that Type I error is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis (H0) based on our sample even though H0 is true in the population. Alternative

Clinical , Osteopathic

OMM in the Emergency Department

10/2/2016 Scott Bland, MSIII , Robert C. Gesumaria, DO , Joshua Kim, MD

OMM in the Emergency Department Any Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) is familiar with the following question: “Hey Doc, what does that DO mean after your name?” While a detailed response regardin

Visual Diagnosis , Orthopedics

Diagnose this Condition

10/2/2016 Maryam Arshad, MD

Diagnose this Condition The Patient A 62-year-old male presents to the ER complaining of right knee pain. He was changing a light bulb when he lost his balance and fell from a 6-foot height, landing

Critical Care

Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis

10/2/2016 John Ramos, MMS, PA-C

Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis At a rural acute stroke-ready hospital in the year 2030, you are using a tele-stroke tablet to evaluate a 62-year-old male en route by mobile computed tomog

Pediatric EM

Evidence-Based Updates

10/2/2016 Ravi Chekka, MD , Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Evidence-Based Updates Case 1 A 6-year-old female presents with 3 days of fever, nausea, and vomiting from a presumed viral gastroenteritis. On examination she is febrile to 39 degrees Celsius and he

Editorial , Burnout , Personal

A Personal Story of Burnout

10/2/2016 Leann Mainis, MD

A Personal Story of Burnout Up until this past week, I thought I had a good handle on burnout. I thought I had figured it out. At some point during the past year, during a string of overnight shifts

ECG Challenge , Cardiology , Clinical

ECG Challenge

10/2/2016 Zachary S. Wilson, MD

ECG Challenge Case. A 59-year-old male smoker with a history of hypertension, familial hyperlipidemia and insulin dependent diabetes presents with 2 hours of substernal chest pressure radiating to hi

Cardiology

STEMI or no STEMI? A Challenging Diagnosis

10/2/2016 Ryan Joseph, DO, DTM&H

STEMI or no STEMI? A Challenging Diagnosis A 26-year-old anxious, diaphoretic male presents with crushing mid-sternal chest pain that awakened him from sleep. Past medical history is unremarkable asi

Toxicology

The Danger of Weight Loss Supplements