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Types of Shock and Therapeutic Interventions

September 26, 2025September 1, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

Do you know the four types of shock and how to manage shock patients based on they type of shock they are in? If shock patients are not routine in your practice, this review will re-familiarize you with them and the therapeutic interventions recommended for treatment. What are the four types of shock? Shock is …

Non-Emergent Low Back Pain Drug-Free Treatment and Evaluation

September 21, 2025August 15, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

I know all of you at some point or another have had patients with low back pain and probably even had low back pain yourself. We are all aware of how common low back pain is — and the reality of it being a costly issue due to lost work days, a decrease in productivity …

Interpreting Culture Results – Part 1: Urinalysis and Urine Cultures

September 21, 2025July 15, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

Interpreting culture results and laboratory tests has long been the bread and butter of clinical practice. Basic Chemistries are relatively straight forward, and modern lab result sheets come with a handy reference that shows the upper and lower limits of ‘normal’ values. However, interpreting culture results is a bit more tricky. In this series, we …

Ventilator Management Basics: How to Set Ventilators and More

September 21, 2025June 9, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

It’s important for providers of all levels to know how to set ventilator settings and other ventilator management basics. Scenerio: You are covering a very busy ER and your patient in respiratory failure you was just intubated. The Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) consults you on what ventilator settings you want the patient to be placed …

15 Ways to Measure Success as a Clinician

September 21, 2025April 16, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

David Hendry, PA-C 1. Are you helping people?Ultimately that’s what we do.. I remember my admissions interview to school when they asked,” why do you want to be so and so..” I want to help people is what I said. I think that’s the most common answer. Isn’t that really why we do what we …

Utilizing the ACS NSQIP risk calculator as an inform consent tool for patients undergoing surgery

September 21, 2025April 3, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

How to use the ACS NSQIP Risk Calculator

When a patient is planning to undergo an operation, it is important that she/he has full understanding of what the proposed surgical intervention is along with the risk of surgery. This is especially critical if the patient has a lot of comorbidities that may put him or her at higher risks of postoperative complications.