A Case of Painful Visual Loss - Managing Orbital Compartment Syndrome in the Emergency Department.

Audience: Emergency medicine (EM) residents. This simulation curriculum may also be utilized for senior medical students conducting EM rotations.

Background: Ophthalmologic education represents only a small portion of medical school curriculums and continues to decrease over time, leaving physicians poorly equipped to diagnose and manage eye complaints.

Novel Academic Tabletop 2022 (NAT22): A Dynamic Dice-Based Emergency Medicine Education Tool.

Gamification is an effective teaching tool that improves engagement and knowledge retention. Tabletop role-playing games are dynamic games that use random chance and foster player/leader partnership. To date, there are no teaching tools that mimic dynamic or unpredictable patient presentations.

Little Patients, Big Tasks - A Pediatric Emergency Medicine Escape Room.

Audience: The target audience for this small group session is post-graduate year (PGY) 1-4 emergency medicine (EM) residents, pediatric EM (PEM) fellows, and medical students.

Introduction: Pediatric emergency department visits have been declining since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to decreased exposure to pediatric emergency care for EM residents and other learners in the ED.1 This is a major problem, given that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates that a minimum of 20% of patient encounters or five months of training time for EM residents must occur with pediatric patients, with at least 50% of that time spent in the ED setting.

Efficacy of Benzodiazepines or Antihistamines for Patients With Acute Vertigo: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Importance: Acute vertigo can be disabling. Antihistamines and benzodiazepines are frequently prescribed as "vestibular suppressants," but their efficacy is unclear.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of antihistamines and benzodiazepines in the treatment of acute vertigo from any underlying cause.

Fluid Resuscitation and Progression to Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients With COVID-19.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with respiratory symptoms and renal effects. Data regarding fluid resuscitation and kidney injury in COVID-19 are lacking, and understanding this relationship is critical.

Objectives: To determine if there is an association between fluid volume administered in 24 h and development of renal failure in COVID-19 patients.

Can we predict which COVID-19 patients will need transfer to intensive care within 24 hours of floor admission?

Background: Patients with COVID-19 can present to the emergency department (ED) at any point during the spectrum of illness, making it difficult to predict what level of care the patient will ultimately require. Admission to a ward bed, which is subsequently upgraded within hours to an intensive care unit (ICU) bed, represents an inability to appropriately predict the patient's course of illness. Predicting which patients will require ICU care within 24 hours would allow admissions to be managed more appropriately.

Characteristics of COVID-19 patients with bacterial coinfection admitted to the hospital from the emergency department in a large regional healthcare system.

Introduction: The rate of bacterial coinfection with SARS-CoV-2 is poorly defined. The decision to administer antibiotics early in the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection depends on the likelihood of bacterial coinfection.

Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of all patients admitted through the emergency department with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection over a 6-week period in a large healthcare system in the United States.

First-time Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Type 2 Diabetics With Covid-19 Infection: A Novel Case Series.

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is a novel coronavirus first diagnosed in U.S. hospitals in January 2020.