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The Toxiscape Hunt: An Escape Room-Scavenger Hunt for Toxicology Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21980/J8NW58By the end of the activity, learners should be able to: 1) Calculate an anion and osmolal gap. 2) Recognize poisonings amenable to hemodialysis. 3) Interpret EKG changes related to a variety of ingestions, including beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers, digitalis, and tricyclic antidepressants. 4) Recognize poisonous plants and their clinical toxidromes. 5) Calculate loading dose of N-acetylcysteine as antidote for acute acetaminophen ingestion. 6) Collaborate as a team to arrive at solutions of problems. 7) Recognize poisons that have available antidotes 8) Know the clinical effect of various types of snake envenomations. 9) Recognize the toxicity associated with at least four household chemicals. 10) Know the antidotes for six common poisonings.
Emed-Opoly: Echocardiography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21980/J8PC77By the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
1) Recognize normal and abnormal left heart global function
2) Recognize normal and abnormal right heart global function
3) Recognize pericardial effusions and pericardial tamponade
Approach to Acute Headache: A Flipped Classroom Module for Emergency Medicine Trainees
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21980/J8WC73At the end of this module, the learner will be able to: 1) list the diagnoses critical to the emergency physician that may present with headache; 2) identify key historical and examination findings that help differentiate primary (benign) from secondary (serious) causes of headache; 3) discuss the indications for diagnostic imaging, lumbar puncture and laboratory testing in patients with headache; 4) recognize life-threatening diagnoses on CT imaging and CSF examination; 5) describe treatment strategies to relieve headache symptoms.
