Course Credit: 3 hours
AIR Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions
Below we have listed our selection of the 6 highest quality blog posts within the past 12 months, as assessed in July 2022 related to cutaneous emergencies in the Emergency Department, curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. More specifically in this Block, we identified 0 AIR and 6 Honorable Mentions blog posts. After reading the posts, please take the quizzes. We recommend programs give 3 hours (approximately 30 minutes per article) of III credit for this module.
| Site | Article | Author(s) | Date | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMDocs | Tattoo related complications in the ED | Nathan LaDeaux, MD and Benjamin Schnapp, MD | 9 May 2022 | HM |
| EMDocs | EM@3AM: Herpes Zoster | Elizabeth Adams, MD and Samuel Parnell, MD | 26 March 2022 | HM |
| RCEM Learning | Burns | Jonathan Matthews, Rajan Atwal | 2 Nov 2021 | HM |
| RCEM Learning | Common Childhood Exanthems | Maya Naravi | 6 July 2021 | HM |
| EMCrit | Anaphylaxis | Josh Farkas, MD | 5 Aug 2021 | HM |
| PedsEM morsels | Pediatric Ramsay Hunt Syndrome | Sean Fox, MD | 17 Jun 2022 | HM |
AIR = Approved Instructional Resource; HM = Honorable Mention
Question 5 in the quiz, you list IV epi as the correct response as opposed to IM epi. You are in fact making the assumption that the patient has an IV or can in fact have an IV easily placed which sometimes is inaccurate assumption. Why is the better response not to give IM epi while an IV is being established? In this case, despite the poor perfusion, some epi is being circulated while the IV is being established.
Thanks for considering my thoughts
Great point Calvin about IV access issues. Indeed there is a time-sensitive element to giving epi for anaphylactic shock, but in this case, the patient had just received a platelet transfusion, which requires an IV. So presumably that IV was still available for epi administration.