This is Steve Carroll for the EM Basic Podcast.

Today we're going to talk about how to give a good ED patient presentation.

Giving a good presentation is a vital part of working in the ED,

and getting it right will benefit you, the patient, and the person on the receiving end of your presentation.

The key is to make it brief, keep it pertinent, think of the life-threatening

diagnoses, and finally, have a management plan. Keeping it brief and pertinent is important

because, let's face it, all of us in the ED have ADD to some degree, and it probably

helps us do our job. In the ED, we are most concerned about the life-threatening causes of a patient's chief complaint,

so that always has to be addressed.

And finally, the management plan is probably the most important part of the presentation.

On most other rotations, if you're a medical student, then you'll be relegated to the

reporter role where you're going to report your

findings, but not really expected to come up with a plan. Here in the ED, we want you to be able

to formulate a plan for your patients, so it's probably a step up compared to your other rotations.

We'll go over how to give a good ED presentation, so it hits all of those goals. Brief, pertinent, covering the life

threats, and having a management plan. Before we get started, I just wanted to thank a listener

named Jake, who suggested this topic for the podcast. He sent me an email suggesting this topic,

so for all the listeners out there, send me your show's suggestions because I take them seriously,

and I will get them done

sooner or later. So with that, let's get started. As always, this podcast doesn't represent

the views your opinions of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army of the Shawshackiam Residency.

So before we start on the actual presentation, let me give two general tips for evaluating

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