Christiana Care Health System

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Christiana Care Health System ranks in the top 25 in the country for emergency visits and is Delaware’s only Level I trauma center that treats adults and children – the only center of its kind between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Christiana Care offers an unmatched learning experience. We’re one of America’s largest, non-sectarian, not for profit health care systems. We serve the Delaware Valley and we’re a nationally recognized, urban and suburban, academic and community hospital. Here you’ll learn from taking care of patients with a huge range of pathologies and work with nationally recognized faculty, accelerating your growth both as an expert and as a caring physician.

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Cardiology

Emergency Department Approach to LVAD Patients

12/10/2024 Anam Chaudhry, DO , Jeremy Berberian, MD , Nisha Gandhi, MD
Nearly 6.7 million Americans over the age of 20 have been diagnosed with heart failure – and more than 2,500 receive a left ventricular assist device. Do you know how to triage and treat LVAD patients
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Critical Care Ultrasound , Ultrasound , Critical Care , Hematology

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: 3-Point DVT Study

2/22/2024 Christian Kasianko, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD
Deep venous thrombosis is a can't-miss diagnosis. Learn how to use the 3-point ultrasound exam to make sure DVTs do not go unnoticed.
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Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Airway , Toxicology

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients with Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial

2/22/2024 Alex Lucas, MD , Christian Kasianko, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD
How reliable is the old adage, "GCS less than 8, intubate"? A randomized trial examines the effect of intubation vs. noninvasive airway management for poisoned patients with GCS less than 8.
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Critical Care , Resuscitation

Critical Care ECMO Series: Introduction to ECMO

11/6/2023 Alex Lucas, MD , Christian Kasianko, MD , Alexandra Hallagan, MD , Brendan Innes, MD , Nicholas Johnson, MD
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) allows for temporary life support in cardiopulmonary failure refractory to conventional medical treatment. Given its capabilities and increasing presence in
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Critical Care Devices , Critical Care , Cardiology

Critical Care Device Series: Transvenous Pacemaker

7/24/2023 Alexandra Hallagan, MD , Christian Kasianko, MD , Amrita Vempati, MD
Temporary transvenous pacing (TTVP) utilizes central venous access to pass an electrode into the right ventricle. TTVPs are one of the most infrequently performed procedures by emergency physicians;
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Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Infectious Disease , Pulmonary

Critical Care Alert: CAPE-COD Trial

3/29/2023 Christian Kasianko, MD , Evan McMurray, MD
The CAPE-COD Trial indicates it might be worth your time to consider hydrocortisone in managing community-acquired pneumonia in admitted patients boarding in the emergency department.
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Medico Legal , Patient Interactions

What Does It Mean for My Patient to Have Decision-Making Capacity?

2/10/2023 Blythe Fiscella, MD , Jeremy Berberian, MD
Our responsibility to attempt therapeutic relationships and try to understand where our patients are coming from is not “window dressing.” Capacity assessments often, but not always, appear at moments
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Critical Care Ultrasound , Ultrasound , Critical Care , Cardiology

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: The 60/60 Sign, Let's Be Specific

10/24/2022 Dustin Slagle, MD , Parth S. Gandhi, DO , Ashley Panicker, MD, FACEP
The 60/60 sign is an ultrasound finding that can help increase specificity in diagnosing right ventricular dysfunction in the setting of an acute pulmonary embolism.
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ECG Challenge , Cardiology

ECG Challenge: October-November 2022

10/10/2022 Mary Voelker, DO , Jeremy Berberian, MD
A 68-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension presents to the emergency department via private vehicle for recurrent intermittent episodes of unresponsiveness that started just prio
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ECG Challenge , Cardiology

ECG Challenge: August-September 2022

8/10/2022 Masood R. Mohammed, DO, MS , Jeremy Berberian, MD
A 27-year-old male with a PMH of seizure disorder and developmental delay presents via EMS after a witnessed seizure. The patient was able to intermittently go into sinus rhythm with vagal maneuvers.