Intern Spotlight!
✨Abbas Sizar✨
Home: Houston, TX
Med school: St. George's 
EM Interests: EMS, US
Why UTHSCSA EM: L1 trauma/ county hospital that serves the underserved of San Antonio, including refugees. UT has all the facilities and specialties I need to best advocate for pts

Our Dr. Bryan Everitt Bryan Everitt, MD NPR FAAEM will be moderating this webinar! If you’re interested in EMS, check this out!! 🚨

✨HAPPENING TONIGHT AT 7pm CST!
✨Come and learn about our awesome program!!
✨Sign-up Link: forms.gle/xZ75SSpArBNiZ8…

MASSIVE TRANSFUSION PROTOCOL
@essentialsofem

⏰ Activate protocol w/early interdisciplinary team notification
💉 Early TXA Treatment
🆎 Prioritize TEG guided resuscitation and TTM
🛑Know when to terminate

EEM On-Demand is now available (essentialsofem.com) if you’d like to…

PGY-1 Spotlight!
✨Kris Caro✨

Hometown: Grapevine, TX
Medical School: UTSCSA
Interests inside of EM: Academics, Toxicology, Wilderness
Why UTSCSA EM?: I loved my 4 years of med school in San Antonio and greatly look forward to giving back to the community that I now call home.

PGY-1 Spotlight!
✨Kyle D’Mello✨

Home: Cedar Rapids, IA
Med School: Des Moines University
EM Interests: Sports Med, Global Med
Why UTSCSA: I wanted a large program with academic + county medicine. This allows me to see a wide range of pathology and will prepare me for anything!

Contemporary Vasopressor and Inotrope Use in Cardiogenic Shock

CCR Journal Watch
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armyemdoc Andrew D. Fisher Matthew Borgman, MD ▪️It is highly beneficial to peruse a related scholarly publication▪️

✔️Study on pre-arrival blood transfusion in pediatric trauma patients
✔️38 cases received blood prePTC, 38 received crystalloid prePTC. ✔️PreBlood patients showed improved markers of shock upon PTC arrival and…

Two of our incredible attendings, Dr. Steve Moore (also director of our Wilderness EM Fellowship) and Dr. Bryan Everitt (EMS Medical Director and EMS Faculty) comment on Heat Related Illness in San Antonio:

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Interested in an EMS Fellowship??

Join us on July 14 for the All Things EMS Fellowship Panel!

Our very own EMS Fellowship Director, Dr. Craig Cooley will be one of the panelists!

Direct registration link:
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Website: naemsp.org/resources/webi…

Awesome thread on why we DON’T want to jump to intubating severe asthmatics. Got chills reading through this!

Today our program toured our BRAND NEW Women and Children’s Hospital! Scheduled to open in August, our residents got a tour of the new Pediatric ED! Here’s two of our helmet-wearing PGY2s showing everyone safety’s first as final construction is taking place! #newPediED

Congrats to Andrew Muck who was one of my attendings at BAMC back when I was a resident many years ago. His leadership didn't stop when he left the U.S. Air Force and continued at UT Health San Antonio and AlamoCityEM, and now at UV.

news.med.virginia.edu/faculty/andrew…

#army #airforce #bamc …

6th floor ICU intern workroom: pretty self-explanatory! This is where our surgery interns along with UT Health San Antonio Orthopaedic Residency and AlamoCityEM interns, work together to take care of patients!

Here’s the dirty secret of emergency medicine:

We don’t have to do prior auth. Like ever. We just order what the patient needs, and the patient gets it done in the ED.

But here’s why we care about prior auth anyways:

B/c not a shift goes by where a patient doesn’t land in the…

TXA in trauma. No statistical superiority for primary outcome (function at 6 months) but secondary outcome showed greater survival at 24hrs. No increase in thromboembolism. #PaperinaPic #hello I'm Dr Kirsty 🏳️‍🌈 thesgem.com/2023/07/sgem40… REBEL EM Salim R. Rezaie, MD