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Paradigm Shifts in Bedside Ultrasound with Elaine Situ-LaCasse, MD

February 5, 2021/in NFEM NEWS, Uncategorized /by nfem

Elaine Situ-LaCasse, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Paradigm Shifts in Bedside Ultrasound – Transcript

In this installment, Elaine Situ-LaCasse, MD provides an overview of bedside ultrasound in the ED, both as a teaching and diagnostic tool. Dr. LaCasses presents three paradigm shifts for bedside ultrasound:

Ultrasound training and education should be accessible to all medical professionals.
We need better tools for teaching ultrasound
There should be simplification and integration of complex concepts regarding cardiac ultrasound, so that all emergency physicians can perform bedside echocardiography on chest pains and syncope patients.

Host: Aaron N. Leetch, MD

Guest: Elaine Situ-LaCasse, MD

Paradigm Shifts in Sickle Cell Disease with Gentry Wilkerson, MD

January 2, 2021/in NFEM NEWS, Uncategorized /by nfem

Dr. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Originally Published in 2018.

Transcript: Paradigm Shifts in Sickle Cell Disease

In this installment, Dr. Wilkerson provides a broad overview of his research in sickle cell disease (SCD) with three paradigms shifts for emergency medicine:

Have a restoration of empathy for patients with Sickle Cell Disease presenting to the ED
Recognize the burden that the care of Sickle Cell Disease patients has on the health care system
Recognize that vaso-occlusive episodes associated with sickle cell disease are a diagnosis of exclusion.

Host: Aaron N. Leetch, MD

Guest: Gentry Wilkerson, MD

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