by dradriancohen | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
When working in a hospital you’ll occasionally encounter an unstable dialysis patient whose providers are struggling to give venous access to. At this point, many healthcare providers will use an ultrasound to find the vein they’re looking for, hopefully making things...
by dradriancohen | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
When it comes to migraines and other primary headache disorders, the autonomic nervous system is typically involved, with the trigeminal nerve being the main nerve involved in them. The sphenopalatine ganglion is a collection of nerve cells that are closely associated...
by dradriancohen | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
Thousands of individuals experience cardiac arrest each year, and a high number of these cases occur outside of hospitals. That means that these individuals are at a higher risk of complications, long-term health effects, and death; in fact, only around 10% of...
by dradriancohen | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
When an individual’s potassium levels are above 5.5 mEq/L, they may be diagnosed with hyperkalemia. The symptoms of hyperkalemia are often absent or go undetected, even in the emergency department (ED), but leaving this condition untreated can result in serious...
by dradriancohen | Dec 20, 2019 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
When working in the emergency department, the number one goal is usually to prolong life. Success is usually achieved by avoiding a patient’s death, but sometimes it’s not possible. Depending on what the patient is there for you may have to consider if you’re just...
by dradriancohen | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog, Dr. Adrian Cohen, Emergency Medicine
Many emergency departments have issues with overcrowding and long wait times which greatly affect the quality of the patient experience. Average wait time for most hospitals usually falls between 20 and 30 minutes depending on the hospital, with extreme wait times...