Akstinas, J. OMS-IV, Miguel, E. DO Mesa View Regional Hospital, NV Rocky Vista University Abstract Case Presentation: A 38-year-old woman with a past medical history of depression, vertigo, and a seizure disorder presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with complaints of dizziness for four days. [...]
Harshit Singh1*, Jaime Weber, MS1*, Angela Pierce, PhD2 1OMS-III, Kansas City University, College of Osteopathic Medicine 2Phase II Director, Kansas City University, College of Osteopathic Medicine *These authors contributed equally to this work. The global spread of a novel coronavirus in 2019 and [...]
Andrew Griffin, OMS-III Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences A couple of weeks into my surgery rotation, I came home from an extended shift when I checked my phone to read dozens of condolences on one of my friend’s Facebook walls alluding to that something severe had happened. Not wan [...]
Alyka Glor Fernandez The Emergency Department (ED) is busy. Resident and attending physicians are occupied every minute of their shifts with patient care, procedures, orders, and charting. In addition, they are responsible for teaching and supervising medical students who rotate in the ED. While our [...]
Samuel James Nobilucci, DO, MSM-HCA, EMT-P Emergency medicine (EM) is a complex and adaptive specialty that blends the knowledge base of a general practitioner with aspects from nearly every other specialty. Be it pediatrics, geriatrics, infectious disease, surgery, or any number of organ-based focu [...]
Anastasia Ambrosio, OMS III ACOEP RSO Student Conference Chair Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences The nurses, the PAs, and even a stray patient in the hallway stared at me, all alarmed. I was excited to get a pimping question right. Muffled heart sounds, hypotension and JVD: the tria [...]
Samuel Nobilluci DO Jordan Miller DO Ari Leib MD Adena Regional Medical Center Case presentation A 88-year-old Caucasian female walks into the emergency department after her primary care physician told her she had an abnormal lab. She reports that she otherwise feels fine and denies visual changes, [...]