June 2012 – Emergency Medicine Education

Complications Associated with Sickle Cell Trait

June 24, 2012June 24, 2012Pourmand

We usually believe that pt with sickle cell trait is not as important as SCD(HbSS). In sickle cell trait, RBC has normal life span (120 vs 20) and no vaso-oclusive crisis. But article in the American Journal of Medicine, discussed a series of serious complication that can affect this type of patient ranging from hematuria, […]

EKG differentiation of early Repol vs STEMI

June 4, 2012June 4, 2012Pourmand

Annals of Emergency Medicine published an article which it provided a formula to determine if we can differentiate between STEMI vs Early Repolarization. I really do not know in an acute setting I am able to sit down and calculate this but sometimes in terms of training it could be fun to do this practice!!!