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Interpreting Culture Results – Part 1: Urinalysis and Urine Cultures

December 4, 2025July 15, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

Interpreting culture results and laboratory tests has long been the bread and butter of clinical practice. Basic Chemistries are relatively straight forward, and modern lab result sheets come with a handy reference that shows the upper and lower limits of ‘normal’ values. However, interpreting culture results is a bit more tricky. In this series, we …

Ventilator Management Basics: How to Set Ventilators and More

January 13, 2026June 9, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

It’s important for providers of all levels to know how to set ventilator settings and other ventilator management basics. Scenerio: You are covering a very busy ER and your patient in respiratory failure you was just intubated. The Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) consults you on what ventilator settings you want the patient to be placed …

15 Ways to Measure Success as a Clinician

September 21, 2025April 16, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

David Hendry, PA-C 1. Are you helping people?Ultimately that’s what we do.. I remember my admissions interview to school when they asked,” why do you want to be so and so..” I want to help people is what I said. I think that’s the most common answer. Isn’t that really why we do what we …

Utilizing the ACS NSQIP risk calculator as an inform consent tool for patients undergoing surgery

September 21, 2025April 3, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

How to use the ACS NSQIP Risk Calculator

When a patient is planning to undergo an operation, it is important that she/he has full understanding of what the proposed surgical intervention is along with the risk of surgery. This is especially critical if the patient has a lot of comorbidities that may put him or her at higher risks of postoperative complications.

GERD Management and Patient Education

September 21, 2025January 16, 2020 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

The reason for this blog post is to bring awareness to a common scenario we see on a daily basis, long term proton pump inhibitor use. I see multiple new patients come in the office who list either Prilosec or Nexium as a daily medication. When I go over their medications and ask about these …

Prevention is Key

September 21, 2025December 17, 2019 by Rob Beatty, MD FACEP

As health care providers we wear many different hats, we have such an awesome responsibility of caring for our patients. A few of our responsibilities include diagnosing, treating, educating, encouraging and the list goes on. One of my favorite roles in caring for patients is focusing on the prevention of disease. I think as providers …