The Mount Sinai Beth Israel team, from left: Anthony Sielicki, MD; Avir Mitra, MD; Jeffrey Nahn, MD; and Nayan Patel, MD.
A team from Mount Sinai Beth Israel recently won the Emergency Medicine Residents Association Quiz Show, competing against 12 teams of residents from across the country at the Council of Emergency Medical Directors Academic Assembly in San Antonio, Texas. In the lighthearted spirit of the contest, the Mount Sinai team wore I ♥ NY T-shirts and foam Statue of Liberty crowns; others were dressed as pirates or Dr. Seuss characters.
But the medical questions were detailed and serious. For example, when a patient has a rapidly swelling eye, what is the ocular pressure at which a vision-saving lateral canthotomy is indicated? (For the record, the answer is 40 mmHg.)
“Congratulations to our team for coming out on top in this national competition,” says Jeremy Boal, MD, President of Mount Sinai Downtown, adding, “Best uniforms ever.”