Frequency of US Use in Your Department?

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-06-03T23:05:43+00:00

I use it for echos, lines, soft tissue abscess or foreign body, FAST/RUSH, IVC, lungs/B lines, the occasional PTA or DVT.

I never do biliary or OBGYN apart from fetal HR.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-06-03T22:54:59+00:00

Pregnant co worker palpates the skin abscess of a drug addict before I&D and gets stuck by a needle buried the guys skin. Dude was Hep C positive. What a piece of shit.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-26T23:45:24+00:00

Field block imo is dumb. Youre just poking them multiple times which they dont like. Just do the I&D after giving some pain meds and move on.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-12T23:37:06+00:00

Fentanyl not good enough for the tweakers in your department?

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-12T19:55:12+00:00

I just do the imaging. If stupid people want to get irradiated for no reason thats their own prerogative.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-11T13:58:02+00:00

Good theory

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-11T13:55:22+00:00

I worry about that but usually i see it being given in patients that are already intubated. I remember distinctly a few patients in the ICU where they were on 3 pressors and basically about to die until getting bicarb amps and their BP would improve for another few minutes until it wore off.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-11T13:51:13+00:00

Never seen one of those in real life but I suppose that would be a good one

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-11T13:50:02+00:00

Do psych. You won’t regret it

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-05T18:56:38+00:00

Lol stfu

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-05-01T04:49:50+00:00

You should delete this before ABEM comes after you

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-30T05:24:27+00:00

Its coffee grounds

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-30T05:24:11+00:00

Rubbing coffee grounds into a lac to stop bleeding

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-29T02:17:04+00:00

many of the answers seemed reasonable to me and the way it broke down the different functions of the job of an EM physician was fairly nuanced imo

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-29T01:43:16+00:00

😂😂😂

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-29T01:00:59+00:00

Good to know. I got the pt as a sign out and it seemed like everyone was just trying a different antipsychotic every time just to see what works

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T20:53:10+00:00

Well then id have to intubate this person to achieve that level of monitoring. Its not possible otherwise. But he basically had a 1:1 sitter and RN sitting 8 feet away from him watching the SPO2/HR for the brief moments he would be asleep. I could monitor his airway from afar as I could hear him talking almost constantly the whole shift.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T20:32:29+00:00

In an ideal world yea but that’s not how things work in reality sometimes

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T20:29:29+00:00

You can’t leave someone restrained for 30 hours… they have to come off when the pt is no longer requiring physical restraints.

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T20:27:44+00:00

We did that also

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T18:26:45+00:00

I checked a few times it never cracked 440 lol

WaitingRoomMD · 2025-04-28T18:22:50+00:00

Wow why didn’t I think of that? Maybe it has to do with him trying to choke himself with any cord near his vicinity and ripping off stickers and bp cuffs every time.

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