Wednesday
Imaging Case: Six Week-Old Infant with Projectile Vomiting
Case: A six week-old previously healthy, term infant via vaginal birth is brought to pediatric ED for repeated episodes of vomiting over a one week period. Vomiting occurs 20-30 min following every episode of feeding and is described as projectile. Parents note decreased urine output over the past two days. Patient is noted to be hungry following vomiting episodes
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Imaging Case: 2 Year Old Male With Abdominal Pain
Case: A 2 year-old male with no significant PMH is brought to the Emergency Department by his mother for intermittent abdominal pain for the past two days. Mom notes that the child will crouch down into a ball when he has pain, which lasts only a few minutes at a time. He has decreased solid food intake but no vomiting or diarrhea and is otherwise well.
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The Right and Wrong Imaging Tests to Evaluate for Central Vertigo
The differentiation between peripheral vertigo and central vertigo can be exceedingly difficult as symptoms of both clinical entities largely overlap. This diagnostic dilemma can be particularly painful for Emergency Medicine physicians and their patients as the workup for central vertigo rules out "can't miss" pathology with imaging that typically takes hours to obtain.
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Imaging Case: Where is the Central Line?
Case: A 68 year old woman presents to the ED with fever, hypotension, and AMS. She has a PICC in place. Your overzealous intern places a central line, and he swears the stick was venous. You obtain and CXR to confirm line placement. Where does the line terminate?
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Imaging Case: 8 Year Old Girl with Shortness of Breath
Case: An 8 year old girl presents to the Emergency Department with the feeling of shortness of breath. Onset was soon after a meal and her parents state that she may have choked on something.
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Imaging Case: Woman with Abdominal Pain
Case: A 42 year old female patient with a past medical history significant for diabetes, obesity and hypertension presents to the ED with chief complaint of 4 days of abdominal pain.
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IV Placement to Increase or Decrease Diagnostic Yield of CT Angiography in Penetrating Neck Trauma
Penetrating neck trauma is a serious cause of morbidity and mortality in the acutely injured patient. While a "no-zone" management approach to penetrating neck injuries is replacing the traditional three zone approach, knowledge of neck zone anatomy is crucial to anticipating and diagnosing pathology inherent to each zone. Zone I is the most caudal and includes the base of the neck and thoracic inlet.
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Imaging Case: Woman With Altered Mental Status
Case: 55 year old female with unknown medical history presents to the Emergency Department by EMS after having a seizure. Prior to the seizure the patient was found "acting strangely" and agitated outside on her street. Patient had a witnessed seizure after police arrived.
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