Anyone going to ACEP?

[dchristismi]

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I'm in. (Aaand I'm supposed to be packing, but I'm wasting time online instead.) Anyone want to meet up? Always nice to put a face to the avatar/sarcastic commentary.

 

[RustedFox]

What avatar ? You've still got the big grey questionmark !

I move for a picture of Tanqueray and tonics.

 

[DeadCactus]

What avatar ? You've still got the big grey questionmark !

I move for a picture of Tanqueray and tonics.

How about a pitcher of Tanqueray and tonic?

 

[dchristismi]

Ok, how's that. It's a statement about society. 😛

And ironically, I haven't had a gin and tonic in years. Conveniently enough, I'll be attending a slew of parties next week... Hm...

 

[Groove]

I'll be there. Flying in Sun and leaving Th evening. Def game.

 

[Apollyon]

I'll be there. Flying in Sun and leaving Th evening. Def game.

Me too.

We're going to a Bruins game (Tuesday night, just to go to one), and to Morton's on the company dime probably Wednesday.

 

[Arcan57]

Flying in late Sunday thru Thursday

 

[Greenbbs]

Early Sunday to late Thursday. Conference attendance scattered with manning the company booth

 

[tkim]

I'll be there. I'll be the Asian guy.

 

[deleted109597]

Am here from Yesterday until Thursday.
It's easy to find me. I've got a facemask and a katana.

 

[tkim]

Going to Weingarts thing in min

 

[WestCoastEM]

You guys going to the party tonight? Was thinking about going but don't know any other students at acep

 

[WestCoastEM]

Going to Weingarts thing in min

My first time seeing him talk, did not disappoint haha

 

[RPedigo]

I'm going to watch SimWars on Wednesday! Looking forward to it.

 

[tkim]

Ran into Apollyon, but that's cheating, since I've already met him IRL.

 

[tkim]

Clear difference in the residents and older attendings at the Lucky Strike, though we have a better bowling game.

 

[Arcan57]

Anyone still around that's going to the aquarium tonight?

 

[StephBee]

Anyone still around that's going to the aquarium tonight?

Man, I'm starting to wish I had bailed on neuro to go to this

 

[tkim]

Anyone still around that's going to the aquarium tonight?

I was there, and left around 1030. I was the Asian guy, short, dark hair, glasses.

 

[tkim]

There was this one lady at Mattus' 8-10 am lecture that kept chomping on Altoids that drove me nuts. She carefully opened and closed the Altoids tin, so as not to make noise, then would crunch the Altoid. Then, 5 seconds later, she would repeat the whole process. For about an hour. I wanted to throat punch her.

 

[Arcan57]

There was this one lady at Mattus' 8-10 am lecture that kept chomping on Altoids that drove me nuts. She carefully opened and closed the Altoids tin, so as not to make noise, then would crunch the Altoid. Then, 5 seconds later, she would repeat the whole process. For about an hour. I wanted to throat punch her.

I read a quick blurb that suggested inability to tolerate that type of sound is a sign of genius.

 

[tkim]

I read a quick blurb that suggested inability to tolerate that type of sound is a sign of genius.

More like I'm an intolerant asxhole, but thanks all the same.

 

[Apollyon]

Ran into Apollyon, but that's cheating, since I've already met him IRL.

See, I was going to say that I looked for the Asian guy, and I found him!

 

[Apollyon]

Takeaways from ACEP:
1. Boston drivers are insane. INSANE. They make NYC look benign.
2. The bags they gave out are ****. Mine tore the first day. Fortunately, my wife's bag stood up. I mean, if you are going to have your name on something (looking at you, ScribeAmerica), make it good. My bag from ACEP 2005 in DC is still intact. I mean, if you're giving out free beer, do you do Bud Light and Rolling Rock? No!
3. Speaking of scribes, what the hell? The companies were nearly as (or more) prevalent than the locums companies.
4. I think it was Sonosite that had some young hot blonde prone on one of their tables.
5. I shoulda got a room at the Westin. The commuting thing was STUPID (I was at the Embassy Logan).
6. I really liked the QuikClot people.
7. I got a ****-ton of pens to last for all year. Some are actually not bad (but no Cross or Parker).
8. Kip Benko and the UPMC Dental crew were the best bang for the buck. Most lectures didn't teach me anything new, and, for example, the "AMA" lecture had all happy endings (despite stating that 1/300 AMA pts will sue you) - not much ethical challenge.
8a. It was like being in high school again, with this classroom here, and that one there, back and forth.
9. Vegas should be better.

 

[Greenbbs]

My takeaways:

Too much useless drug peddling. I don't use any of the odd Abx, and seriously- who's paying 1100$ for a course of IV/IM tamiflu? In the words of Dave Newman- just stop it (x3)

When you have to invent a drug to fix another previously non-fixable drug, then staff separate booths? C'mon man!

There was a lot of crap there ( in the show). One vendor went thru 2000 scones a day!!!

 

[Apollyon]

When you have to invent a drug to fix another previously non-fixable drug, then staff separate booths? C'mon man!

Are you talking about the "Pradaxablock" or whatever it was? Those were both together. I thought that that was genius - make a problem, and, then, provide the miraculous solution!

 

[Greenbbs]

Are you talking about the "Pradaxablock" or whatever it was? Those were both together. I thought that that was genius - make a problem, and, then, provide the miraculous solution!

Yeah. Bunch of crap. The running commentary via text with my ED pharmacist was priceless.

 

[Groove]

I enjoyed Denver in 2012 better. Boston is a great city, but the ACEP lectures were lower yield than I anticipated. Mattu and Weingart were high yield and Mattu always inspires. Even though Weingart was great, I find DSI to be one of those fad topics these days that has little application for me personally considering I really don't have that many agitated delirium pt's where I would need to use it. Maybe I do and just haven't realized it because they got tubed so quickly. He's a great speaker though.

I also signed up for some workshops for the first time this year and it was kind of a mixed bag. The advanced echocardiography lab was actually informative and although I didn't get as much time to practice as I would have liked, it motivated me to improve my skills in this dept (and finish my ARDMS which I have put off forever) though I doubt I'll find much practical application outside what I knew already. The advanced airway lab was super low yield. I didn't learn anything knew other than a technique for intubating "around" a king air with a bougie that I hadn't really considered before though that's likely due to the fact that I would never use it. I felt a little dumb for signing up for the emergent delivery lab but you know what? It was actually very, very useful and a great refresher. They had 2 OB docs in there and I had a million questions that they were great about answering so it turned out to be a pretty high yield sim. I broke down and bought the virtual acep and plan on watching a few others I was interested in but didn't get a chance to attend. I don't think I'll sign up for lab/workshops in the future unless something really piques my interest.

I hate saying this but I find the best part of ACEP to be the expo floor. I roamed around all 3 days, networked and looked at all the products.

I'm thinking of trying EM Essentials next year. I've never been but always hear good things. I wish I would have taken a few extra days to explore Boston. I had no idea it was such a cool city.

 

[tkim]

Mattu was funny, and Weingart was angry. Both were informative. Got to say hello to Chris Fox, whom I haven't seen in 10 years when I took his UC Irvine EM ultrasound rotation as a med stud. His echocardiography rap was funny.

I did a DSI on a status asthmaticus that I think helped out a lot.

One guy was a super downer during his lecture and I wish I had not sat in on his lecture.