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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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
Read MoreA quick review infographic created by our medical students and edited by our clerkship director
Reviewed by Dr. Sean Dyer, MD
Associate Program Director, M4 Clerkship Director
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