Tents…canoes…tourniquets and field chest tubes after the apocalypse?? It can only be MedWars! Mercy St. Vincent hosted the Midwest...

July 1st, the calendar New Year of teaching hospitals. It's a bittersweet moment to see the departure of our graduating senior residents...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! To kick off 2021, we wanted to show off some of our amazing wonder women at Mercy St. Vincent Emergency Medicine...

Scaffophysiology is a series of brief disease overviews intended to provide resident physicians guidance on initial management and...

"Are you going to get the COVID vaccine?" "What are your thoughts on the vaccine?" My answer is, yes, I most definitely am getting the...

Our second alumni interview of the series with Dr. Michael Tang, who helped hundreds of injured patients in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Dr. Modesti reflects on the last few months as a resident physician, COVID first-responder, and new wife!

Here is Dr. Fujita's summary of the common money mistakes from Skylight Financial Group.

Learn how to best manage epistaxis from Dr. Plewa in this post!

Check out Dr. Chris Ruettinger's reflection of his first month of residency!

Check out Dr. Tribull's reflection on her first month of residency!

Where is the best spot for central lines? Dr. Scaff reviews the literature on central line complications.

Check out Dr. Lauren Rys's reflection of her first two weeks of residency!

Check out some amazing ultrasound cases by Dr. Grattan, PGY-1.

E Chin Mak completed medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Read about her experience on her first day of residency.

A quick review on the basics of local anesthetic use for nerve blocks.

The much-anticipated HALT-IT trial was finally published in the Lancet this week and the results just might surprise you…

Even though we're going into the summer, here's a great review of accidental hypothermia by Dr. Ledrick.

Ketamine is largely considered hemodynamically neutral in most patients, but be careful with its use in certain situations.

Summary of SCAI, ACC, and ACEP consensus statement about Management of Acute MI During the COVID19 Pandemic.