Medical Music Mondays: Fear the Reefer (Cannabis Hyperemesis)
Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome can make habitual smokers miserable! They will got some relief from hot showers - but many need fluids, ondansetron, topical capsaicin, and even Haldol.
Medical Music Mondays: HSP
What if the Fab Four from Liverpool sang about Henoch-Schönlein purpura - AKA IgA vasculitis. Wouldn't that be neat? Probably not. Anyway. Listen to this song, it's fun.
Medical Music Mondays: The World Has Turned And I’m Stuck Here
Acquired torticollis is a self limited spasm of the neck muscles - often he sternocleidomastoid - that responds well to ibuprofen, heat, and gentle massage and stretching exercises. I thought you'd appreciate the "wry" sense of humor in the album cover...
Medical Music Mondays: Dewdrops on a Rose Petal
Dewdrops on a rose petal describes the classic appearance of the lesions in varicella infections. Chicken pox is preventable by vaccines you know...
Medical Music Mondays: Blindsided
Concussions are nothing to mess around about - and sometimes you don't know you have one until a bit later. So a conservative plan involves resting until symptoms improve and following up with your doctor. No one knows if listening to "bro country" worsens symptoms.
Medical Music Mondays: Keep on Dancing (The Zofran Plan)
Ondansetron is an antiemetic that reduces vomiting episodes in many illnesses. It also helps reduce the risk of IV fluids and admission in children with acute gastroenteritis. Also, AI images are weird and why did I end up with a picture of a Bruno mars look a like sitting on the toilet?
Medical Music Mondays: Scabies for the Babies
Scabies is everywhere! It's also very treatable with permethrin topically. It's also important to remember that patients and families feel unclean and stigmatized by this common infection - but they shouldn't! Also "Scabies for the Babies" will be stuck in your head. I promise...
Medical Music Mondays: At Your Throat Like Strep
If the Wu Tang clan produced a track about strep throat in children it might sought like this. Also ODB could be "Oropharyngeal Disease Bacteria."
Medical Music Mondays: Time is Testicle
Time is testicle! Acute scrotal pain must be evaluated promptly in the ED. You'll see swelling, extreme pain, sidling testis, and absent cremaster reflex. You've got 4 to 6 hours at most to get the patient to surgery. Time is testicle! Also yacht rock.
Medical Music Mondays: Dogmentin
Dog bites are unfortunately common in the Emergency Department. Remembering which ones to suture for cosmetic concerns while assuring we reduce the risk of infections is important. Also, most should get antibiotics. Which one? Dogmentin! (It's a portmanteau of Dog and Augmentin)...