Conference presentation topic help?

[Zback]

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I will be doing a power point presentation in the weekly conference for my 4th yr EM elective, anybody have any good topics? It only needs to be 10 minutes tops.

 

[e30ftw]

think of a patient who had an interesting/significant diagnosis. Go to a site such as this:

http://www.crashingpatient.com

find information about that topic. read the articles referenced.

make a ppt presentation covering presentation, history, labs, imaging, management, disposition, and recent significant studies relating to the topic, thenpresent it. You should be specific and concise if it needs to be 10 min or less.

 

[Zback]

Thanks for the idea and the link! Anybody else have any ideas?

 

[RustedFox]

Tox cases are always good for an audience in terms of "okay, we have an undifferentiated crashing patient, now lets see how we can best figure this out".

 

[Dane07MD]

Hyperkalemia is always an easy brief MS4 talk. If you don't have a specific case to discuss, that is. It allows you to briefly discuss what are most common causes, physical exam, ECG changes, and a pretty straight forward treatment plan, some of which have validity, some not.

To set it apart from a very generic hyper K presentation, talk about the onset time and half life of the treatments (insulin, beta agonist, bicarb, lasix, sodium polystyrene, etc). Those are points people tend to not remember as much and is always a good refresher.

RustedFox's suggestion is good too. Something like aminita mushroom poisoning might be a fun one. Or to make it especially tricky, make it a 6 year old with down's syndrome and a congenital VSD, who was out playing in the yard and wolfed down a whole bunch of foxglove.

 

[e30ftw]

It allows you to briefly discuss what are most common causes, physical exam, ECG changes, and a pretty straight forward treatment plan, some of which have validity, some not.

re: hyperkalemia validity..

sometimes the most difficult part about the whole case is keeping a straight face while the admitting md is giving you crap for not giving kayexalate in a symptomatic hyperk pt after youve already lined/ca++/insulin/fluid resuscitated them while strokes/sob/traumas roll through the doors..

 

[leviathan]

re: hyperkalemia validity..

sometimes the most difficult part about the whole case is keeping a straight face while the admitting md is giving you crap for not giving kayexalate in a symptomatic hyperk pt after youve already lined/ca++/insulin/fluid resuscitated them while strokes/sob/traumas roll through the doors..

You can debunk the myth of not having to give calcium unless there are ECG changes.